I’ve got rain. No words. No fancy maledictions. Pounding drips against my inner scream. Out in the valley, obscured by smoky haze, gathering armies. Bright polished armor. Weaponry clean beauteously shines, stars behind dark clouds. No roots to cling to. Flood water rises, drowns fire, air, ability to speak of sorrow. Ashes fall unevenly through seeping valley.
It is exactly wrong to speak of government as some monolithic them that gives and takes, controls. Government, when rightly understood, is us doing as we decide, projects to meet our goals as organized society.
The salient feature of “conservative” humanity is ownership of property. People with no property have no value, and therefore no entitlement to rights.
Can you look at your moment to moment and laugh with the cosmic humor of trying to make it happen faster? It can take a very long time, all that resistance to serious change. We get used to thinking of how it should be, what is expected. It can be the hardest thing to accept, smile, smell the ambient air, taste the moment, and enjoy the dance. Just, you know, bit by bit, easing the attention from some goal or guilt to simply feeling into a gentler frame.
#Russia’s arbitrary #cruelty in #Ukraine and at home must inform any peace deal Dalibor Rohac
..."Friday’s sentence for Evan Gershkovich, a 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia last year on bogus espionage charges, reveals a basic fact about contemporary Russia: Unless dissuaded by force, the Kremlin never shies away from arbitrary cruelty.
Following last week’s phone call between Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, negotiations w"...
so Trump can demand all kinds of vile acts against his opponents, but Biden uses a common phrase and gets lambasted -- yes, yet again the "right" gets all the approbation rights. How has this become our default? They are clearly vile, and yet somehow can do no wrong