[FRIAM] Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass
Steve Smith
sasmyth at swcp.com
Tue Dec 8 11:34:41 EST 2020
Fellow (mostly) Liberalish, professionaI-class Elite(sh) FriAMfriends-
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:
the Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
<https://scheerpost.com/2020/12/07/chris-hedges-the-collective-suicide-of-the-liberal-class/?fbclid=IwAR12FQKEpjB6dCKg63qREV4TQcwFw03zQWE_XZLXm4wA5B3ZLSD4lAjjpsw>
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.
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.
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...
- Steve
> It’s enough to make one get up and leave! (Launch in 7 minutes?)
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> https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *David Eric Smith
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 8, 2020 3:54 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during
> Covid was like walking through the looking glass
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> One of the commentators spun quite a good turn of phrase. I think I
> want to write it here so I have a record and can go back and find it
> when I want it:
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> The 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
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> EricS
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> On Dec 7, 2020, at 6:16 PM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com
> <mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com>> wrote:
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> Oh, how I wish Americans weren't so stupid.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Dorothy Bracey* <dhbracey at comcast.net
> <mailto:dhbracey at comcast.net>>
> Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was
> like walking through the looking glass
> To: Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com <mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com>>
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> Dorothy H. Bracey -- Santa Fe, NM US
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> Date: 12/07/2020 3:19 AM
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> Subject: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was
> like walking through the looking glass
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> Read the comments too. It’s all pretty chilling. One of them
> that really got to me is:
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> “I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to be Canadian and
> have the US as a neighbor.”
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> Sylvia
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> Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like
> walking through the looking glass
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/07/arriving-in-the-us-from-australia-during-covid-was-like-walking-through-the-looking-glass?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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