“Whose interest does ignorance serve? If we humans bear, say, hereditary propensities toward the hatred of strangers, isn’t self-knowledge the only antidote? If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us…does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ~ Carl Sagan
“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. “
~ Carl Sagan, “Demon Hunted World”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The water-bug’s mittens show on the bright rock below him.
~ Ezra Pound, addendum to Canto C
“Water Striders in a Lotus Pond", Kōno Bairei
“The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to retain their image.”
(Zen poem)
“How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?”
~ Stephen LaBerge,
Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't
Art: Mark Rogers
“I heard it from my hair dresser who heard it from their best friend’s uncle’s neighbor’s cousin” is not an example of providing definitive proof for anything at all. At all.
I have some thoughts regarding Sissy SpaceX sniffing around our social security, Medicare, and Medicaid…
Criminally under-read.
“Cold is the night, and still, and strange,
Stars they glitter and shimmer.
All are asleep in the lonely grange
Under the midnight’s glimmer…
All but the Tomten are dreaming…”
~ from Viktor Rydberg.
Art: Leah Rose, “The Tomten and the Fox”
Logistically, deporting millions of people takes time. Lots of it. The bastards will have to house them, so you can infer what comes next. I’ll give you a hint: the word you’re looking for starts with “internment” and ends in “camps”.
Hard to win those races when states are gerrymandered to hell and back.
Quote from Greenwire article on Gaetz AG nomination: “Luckily all of our environmental laws are older than 18 years, so Rep. Gaetz shouldn’t have much interest in them,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a frequent litigant in environmental lawsuits.
Wowwww
“Trump will bring world peace!” Cries MAGA. Meanwhile, Trump’s cabinet picks consist of a China Hawk, an Iran Hawk, and a Palestine Hawk.
I don’t know if it’s the root, but it certainly helps.
