tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post6136122418114951333..comments2024-03-05T21:04:43.133-05:00Comments on The Cahokian: 'More than machinery we need humanity"ishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-41565907633987272102011-08-03T23:00:20.351-04:002011-08-03T23:00:20.351-04:00It's scary to think about. Plus, books have ch...It's scary to think about. Plus, books have chapters...you know when the next one starts. I don't think real life is like that. 1933 didn't happen without 1932, 1931 and 1930. How do you know when the change that seems small when it's happening turns out to have been the significant pendulum shift?<br /><br />Did you see the article in the NYT today about Reagan and PATCO? Relevant!<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/opinion/reagan-vs-patco-the-strike-that-busted-unions.html?hp<br /><br />g'night Annie!ishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-58627376994347448512011-08-03T22:47:28.201-04:002011-08-03T22:47:28.201-04:00Over the weekend I watched some recorded episodes ...Over the weekend I watched some recorded episodes I had from the History channel; The Rise and The Fall of the Third Reich...<br /><br />As I watched I tried to put myself in that time period and imagine how I would have reacted... Would I have been the quiet one that didn't agree but went along... or would have I put my life on line and spoken out?<br /><br />I like to think I would have been the latter.<br /><br />I know - it takes an enormous amount of energy and wherewithal to go against the tide. Every dissenter needs to know there is at least one other person out there in his corner...<br /><br />It shouldn't have to take "millions" to matter - the fact that one person is allowed to be abused and belittled should be enough for a protest and action.Anna Guess Pickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312345846201371477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-51695543297974471032011-08-03T22:23:18.283-04:002011-08-03T22:23:18.283-04:00Hey I published both your comments not to embarras...Hey I published both your comments not to embarrass you at all... because of course there is that. My first draft of this post contained a tortured attempt to place the Tea Party and even the US government and by implication Obama on a point of comparison to that forbidden H word, which sounds on the surface when one says it aloud like serious over-reacting. It's certainly ridiculous when the teabaggers compare Obama to Hitler from the right and I didn't want to make such a caricature from the left.<br /><br />But... it's not hysteria to hear the echoes of what Chaplin is talking about in today's political dialogue. There's nobody in concentration camps, well, unless you count one percent of the US population being behind bars the same thing which is worth thinking about if nothing else. There's not mass burning of Synagogues but well, there are some ugly protests and the smell of burning Holy Q'uran. There's a bullying gang mentality developing. It's good to keep one's eyes open. Take notes!ishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-72444260652769029832011-08-03T22:09:24.288-04:002011-08-03T22:09:24.288-04:00Sorry, I jumped the gun in my response... my first...Sorry, I jumped the gun in my response... my first comment is not really appropriate to your post. What can I say, I am a reactionary. Didn't mean to belittle your post. Mea Culpa.Anna Guess Pickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312345846201371477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-10971467927012019782011-08-03T22:04:28.898-04:002011-08-03T22:04:28.898-04:00How odd, just today I was pondering the similariti...How odd, just today I was pondering the similarities of the Tea-party and the Nazi-party. The forbidden H-word... shout it to the housetops, Ish. A rose by any other name would smell.Anna Guess Pickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312345846201371477noreply@blogger.com