The interim seasons between the extremes of summer and winter, the times of change, always bring about many a rumination on the possible and probable changes in store for our villages. The old holidays brought folks together to ease the unease.
As to the transition from the last four years to the potential for the next four, it is most definitely not a lull, or a void. It is a precipice. Do we drive off the cliff, into the dark canyon bottom, or steer our way back to the light and clear views of the ridgeline above?
I can tell you as someone who has voted for many, many decades, that the path we have been on for the past three to four, is most definitely the wrong one. Until someone begins to excise 50% or more of this bloated parasitic kleptocracy, we are not citizens, just donors to evil. A very cold, dark evil.
Wonderfully written. Loved the more metaphysical and cultural allusions of the piece.
It's true. People want to exit the void, whatever and whoever it takes. The positive and negative effects this may have aren't ignored necessarily, but they are considered something to be dealt with after the "great escape". I think this is a generally good plan overall, wherever it may take us in the immediate short-term.
You could say people lost in a mythical dark forest will follow a leader who bears a torch, who is lighting a path. But who is to say he is lighting the correct path? Time will tell
With the change of seasons, today is still Halloween on November 1st. Tomorrow the temperature is going down and it will feel more like the day of the dead etc. The sky is purple and amazing, it feels just like Halloween. I remember in Western Europe it would always break and November 1st / 2nd was usually a cloudy rainy foggy day. There were some really intense Halloweens that resolved into those next early days of November.
I'd say that Americans generally do understand Halloween, it always stuck with me growing up in that atmosphere. It's at the base of all the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon culture.
could you elaborate? I grew up in the south which is an Anglo-Celtic as America gets, but I'm not sure this is true anymore. What things do you have in mind?
It might not be true for most people anymore, it seemed to be true when I was coming up and then into adult times. Helps to be living in an old neighborhood of an old city in Northeast USA. Might be different in some plastic suburbs where everything was commercialized, instead of well-educated families whose children grew up playing dungeons & dragons. Reading Tolkien etc, we had cultural reference and context.
The environment has a lot to do with contributing towards seasonal times, it'd be hard to find Halloween in Florida or Hawaii. The Atlantic seaboard is close enough to Western Europe in many ways although much wilder and more extreme. I don't know what it's like in the South but carving pumpkins and the whole "green country towne" of Pennsylvania was around until recently. It's the lay of the land itself, up to New England.
Over the last eight years, I have become familiar with this cautious take on Trump. "he's not great, but he's not bad." or "He's not good, but not really evil either." It's a bit of a centrist take, although I don't know if you're a centrist or not. The right really do think his agenda aligns very much with theirs. Agenda 47, worth a read. He's also made some very interesting statements like "these chemtrails they spray, we are going to stop those." chemtrails are sprayed globally so is he saying he's going to stop it globally?
The Americans I believe are at a point where they want him to do this stuff and if he does not, it's going to be a bit rough. I could be wrong. Have been. That long road you speak of isn't because of him being more middle of the road and much more, if not almost exclusively, due to the fact that the old guard, a very corrupt old guard still think they have a few attacks left in them.
Whether they have any strength left is another matter. Interesting aside: John Raskin has said they will refuse to certify him. This means they're still going to cheat, but it is likely to not work. It means they've given up that battle, thinking they can win the war at the other end. That's going to be something. These guys aren't used to playing real hardball with an actual enemy. They're long on planning, and short on defense, which is where they are right now. Deeply frustrated that every move they've made had been countered and now they are no longer the bosses, just some guys trying to defend an already breached castle.
The interim seasons between the extremes of summer and winter, the times of change, always bring about many a rumination on the possible and probable changes in store for our villages. The old holidays brought folks together to ease the unease.
As to the transition from the last four years to the potential for the next four, it is most definitely not a lull, or a void. It is a precipice. Do we drive off the cliff, into the dark canyon bottom, or steer our way back to the light and clear views of the ridgeline above?
I can tell you as someone who has voted for many, many decades, that the path we have been on for the past three to four, is most definitely the wrong one. Until someone begins to excise 50% or more of this bloated parasitic kleptocracy, we are not citizens, just donors to evil. A very cold, dark evil.
The dead really do have to come out on election day. Kamala will need the votes.
Wonderfully written. Loved the more metaphysical and cultural allusions of the piece.
It's true. People want to exit the void, whatever and whoever it takes. The positive and negative effects this may have aren't ignored necessarily, but they are considered something to be dealt with after the "great escape". I think this is a generally good plan overall, wherever it may take us in the immediate short-term.
You could say people lost in a mythical dark forest will follow a leader who bears a torch, who is lighting a path. But who is to say he is lighting the correct path? Time will tell
That is very true indeed
With the change of seasons, today is still Halloween on November 1st. Tomorrow the temperature is going down and it will feel more like the day of the dead etc. The sky is purple and amazing, it feels just like Halloween. I remember in Western Europe it would always break and November 1st / 2nd was usually a cloudy rainy foggy day. There were some really intense Halloweens that resolved into those next early days of November.
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I'd say that Americans generally do understand Halloween, it always stuck with me growing up in that atmosphere. It's at the base of all the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon culture.
could you elaborate? I grew up in the south which is an Anglo-Celtic as America gets, but I'm not sure this is true anymore. What things do you have in mind?
It might not be true for most people anymore, it seemed to be true when I was coming up and then into adult times. Helps to be living in an old neighborhood of an old city in Northeast USA. Might be different in some plastic suburbs where everything was commercialized, instead of well-educated families whose children grew up playing dungeons & dragons. Reading Tolkien etc, we had cultural reference and context.
The environment has a lot to do with contributing towards seasonal times, it'd be hard to find Halloween in Florida or Hawaii. The Atlantic seaboard is close enough to Western Europe in many ways although much wilder and more extreme. I don't know what it's like in the South but carving pumpkins and the whole "green country towne" of Pennsylvania was around until recently. It's the lay of the land itself, up to New England.
No one wins this election. We have become content with abject servility and obedience to experts.
Over the last eight years, I have become familiar with this cautious take on Trump. "he's not great, but he's not bad." or "He's not good, but not really evil either." It's a bit of a centrist take, although I don't know if you're a centrist or not. The right really do think his agenda aligns very much with theirs. Agenda 47, worth a read. He's also made some very interesting statements like "these chemtrails they spray, we are going to stop those." chemtrails are sprayed globally so is he saying he's going to stop it globally?
The Americans I believe are at a point where they want him to do this stuff and if he does not, it's going to be a bit rough. I could be wrong. Have been. That long road you speak of isn't because of him being more middle of the road and much more, if not almost exclusively, due to the fact that the old guard, a very corrupt old guard still think they have a few attacks left in them.
Whether they have any strength left is another matter. Interesting aside: John Raskin has said they will refuse to certify him. This means they're still going to cheat, but it is likely to not work. It means they've given up that battle, thinking they can win the war at the other end. That's going to be something. These guys aren't used to playing real hardball with an actual enemy. They're long on planning, and short on defense, which is where they are right now. Deeply frustrated that every move they've made had been countered and now they are no longer the bosses, just some guys trying to defend an already breached castle.