my informal survey of supporters of Donald Trump indicates that none of them believe what i believe about him... they all say he won't do the worst things he has said he will do... i deeply desire to be proven wrong...
From this morning’s walk…
more from the theater of the absurd…
November 8, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
There are also stories that voters who chose Trump to lower household expenses are unhappy to discover that their undocumented relatives are in danger of deportation.
i feel i am living in an absurdist play…
November 8, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as reporters are covering that information.
i am starting to review my internet footprint for being secure from prying big tech eyes and ultimately government eyes… i have a Proton email account and have now signed up for their cloud drive and vpn service… i don’t use FB and Instagram very much… other ways to secure privacy?
November 7, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
a glimmer of hope?…
There is another, major problem for the party, as well: Trump won the election in part by promising everything to everyone, but the actual policies of the MAGA party are unpopular, even with many Republican voters.
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Well, investors are enthusiastic about the outcome…
the Jesuit monk Teilhard de Chardin’s ideas, written down during the first half of 19th century, didn’t see the light of day until after his death in 1955… his ideas considered radical by the church and forbidden to be published… this sounds like panpsychism to me… Iain McGilchrist also describes a universe where matter is the product of mind…
First let it be noted that, by the very fact of the individualisation of our planet, a certain mass of elementary consciousness was originally emprisoned in the matter of earth. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man)
Sex-role divisions of labor have meant that as parents women have supported war effort by instilling in their children an acceptance of domination and a respect for violence as a means of social control. Implanting this ideology in human consciousness is as central to the making of a militaristic state as the overall control of males by ruling male groups who insist that men make war, and reward them for their efforts. (bell hooks, Feminist Theory)
taking this to hear, how would one ever act again?… and yet, there is a truth embedded here…
The essential point is that every disclosure is also a concealment. Every closing down of potential into an actuality – itself a necessary, even fruitful step – is by the same token a limiting of reality to what has been selected. If it had not been selected, one might have discovered something immensely larger within that field of potential – now forever narrowed to what it is we think we clearly know. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
… i have cancelled a trip to the west coast to see family… i couldn’t leave my wife by herself to process the news and frankly i need her shoulder to cry on too… we are going to take the time we need to grieve and process then figure out what to do next…
Three selfie images…
Optimism assumes that all will go well without our effort; pessimism assumes it’s all irredeemable; both let us stay home and do nothing. (Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names)
To not actively commit to possibility—to not actively commit to making some kind of humane, livable future a reality—is to help ensure that the future is not humane or livable. To abdicate to hopelessness and resignation or “realism” is to be part of the violence and destruction. (Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred)
From this morning’s walk…
With the time change, the lighting conditions change…
What do you think of this idea of imagination…
Imagination is not, as it is sometimes conceived, the capacity to conjure the unreal, but, for the first time, to see the real – the real that is, for reasons of deeply ingrained habit, no longer present to us. … To see is not just to register sense-data, but to see ‘into’ the life of what is seen; and ‘through’ it to the greater picture that lies beyond it, is implicit in it, and makes sense of it in terms of the totality of experience. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
I hated it when it first started happening, but sadly have gotten used to it… our local theater is not so bad in this regard though…
Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the pleasure of entering into the aesthetic space of a film in a dark theater is now given over to advertising, where our sense and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will. (bell hooks, All About Love)
Looking forward to the end of the patriarchy…
The worship of death is a central component of patriarchal thinking, whether expressed by women or men. (bell hooks, All About Love)
November 1, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson(https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1-2024)
In Madison, Harris told a reporter: “What I am enjoying about this moment most is that in spite of how my opponent spends full time trying to divide the American people, what I am seeing is people coming together under one roof who seemingly have nothing in common and know they have everything in common, and I think that is in the best interest of the strength of our nation.
November 1, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson(https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1-2024)
Trump’s mental state continues to deteriorate, taking with it the former president’s inhibitions. After going on a rant about the people he blamed for troubles with his microphone at a sparsely attended rally in Warren, Michigan, the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America simulated oral sex on stage.
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