As with Orwell, there's a reason people are constantly quoting and referencing this.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
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Maybe we can have an influenza outbreak without any available vaccines a la "Polio Bob" in the Health Department. But knowing how Trumpnik is, he'll want his plague to be the biggest, most beautiful plague you've ever seen.
Perhaps zombies?
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“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
What rough beast, indeed?
Trump is the AntiChrist.
The dead-letter-literal-interpretation of the Bible,
evangelical fundamentalists white nationalists churches
have been warning about the man of sin" and "son of perdition.
And when he appears, they elect him president.
Boycott the churches on radio & TV.
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Are people afraid to recognize that musk, Thiel, Vance and the hordes at heritage are behind the destruction of the departments ?
The evangelicals baying for their pound of flesh.
"And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, & despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless & bare
The lone & level sands stretch far away.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
It will be a long time until peace shines more without than the urge to procreate nags within.
Until then, stand your watch. Not everyone will.
Your attitude is the result of the way you think and feel.
You communicate your attitude constantly with those around you.
Create a positive attitude, filled with good feelings, and even just your presence will do wonders in all situations.
"Should you, then, in time, discover all there is to be discovered, your progress must become a progress away from the bulk of humanity. The gulf might even grow so wide that the sound of your cheering at some new achievement would be echoed by a universal howl of horror."
Orwell's 1984 was based on BBC propaganda targeting South Asians. Ironically enough, its main targets were Pashtuns. The targeting of Pashtuns inspired Hitler's idea for lebensraum-- see British TV docu "The Nazis: A Warning From History" episode 2.
https://youtu.be/f1j0j4r_gnw?si=tbUMiX-WQc40eUPZ
“there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day”
https://allpoetry.com/The-Genius-Of-The-Crowd
Thank you for your clear, well educated and balanced voice.
I am REALLY loving "The Siren Call"
Stunning.
Gus
while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
Is the line I use a lot (not least because it's the only bit of that poem that I know by heart, but also because these days, it's so very, very apposite)
https://youtu.be/1boAusqiBMs?si=EcTOOZND5mjs8cr0
“…Two vast and trunkless legs of stone…
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
I was banned from TikTok!!
for the following video!!!
I’m a big fan of NBC News and Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
They conveniently forget the verse that says [paraphrasing] "no one shall know the hour or day" .
There is no more reliance on the rules, they may help us, or hinder us. But we should never let them rest as long as they hold power.
Do not waver in the face of threats. If they wish to make a pogrom, we wish to defy them.
The good, the bad and the ugly; they all see themselves in it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/trumps-assault-on-democracy-why-the?r=3nm35j&utm_medium=ios
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."