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<p>Fellow (mostly) Liberalish, professionaI-class Elite(sh)
FriAMfriends- <br>
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<p>Ioffer this with a grain of capsaicin-salt to rub in the wound of
our modern existential dilemma: meaning that what with Chris
Hedges' familiar depressing snark, not everyone might be able to
afford to read the following... Reader Beware:<br>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://scheerpost.com/2020/12/07/chris-hedges-the-collective-suicide-of-the-liberal-class/?fbclid=IwAR12FQKEpjB6dCKg63qREV4TQcwFw03zQWE_XZLXm4wA5B3ZLSD4lAjjpsw">the
Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class <br>
</a></p>
<p>I find it rather sobering and something worth studying as the
raging voice of the Whitelash Evangelical Right returns to an
angry grumble... "we the woke/enlightened/etc" need to police our
own bought-out corruption in the same way many of us stood back
and marveled that nobody curbed the worst excesses of (for
example) Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld and then more transparently Trump
et-al. <br>
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<p>I don't subscribe to the full snark of Hedges, but that doesn't
mean he is wrong (just snarky?). I'd be just as happy to let
those who eagerly invited Biden/Harris into the White House revel
in the pushing back of the Authoritarian Right before I started
trying to kick the feet out from under the (comparatively benign?)
newcomers, but then I'm not Chris Hedges.</p>
<p>RE: SpaceX... I don't think there will be room on any of Musk's
rocket ships for anyone (except him or other bazillionaires) over
40...<br>
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<p>- Steve<br>
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</b>David Eric Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 8, 2020 3:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Arriving in the US from
Australia during Covid was like walking through the
looking glass<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the commentators spun quite a good
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pandemic is like a mirror held up to society showing the
ugliness of the powerful, the beauty of those trying to
fight it, the naivety of many believing dogma and rumour
ahead of science but most clearly reflected, is the pain
and hopelessness of the poor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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From: <strong><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dorothy
Bracey</span></strong> <<a
href="mailto:dhbracey@comcast.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">dhbracey@comcast.net</a>><br>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM<br>
Subject: Fwd: Arriving in the US from
Australia during Covid was like walking
through the looking glass<br>
To: Tom Johnson <<a
href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>Dorothy H. Bracey -- Santa Fe, NM US <o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From: Sylvia Tiersten
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date: 12/07/2020 3:19
AM <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Subject: Arriving in
the US from Australia during Covid was
like walking through the looking glass
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<p class="MsoNormal">Read the comments
too. It’s all pretty chilling. One of
them that really got to me is:
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can’t begin to imagine what it’s
like to be Canadian and have the US
as a neighbor.” </span>
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Arriving in the US from Australia
during Covid was like walking through
the looking glass
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