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Mara Einstein is interesting on the subject... she’s interviewed on the most recent Douglas Rushkoff Team Human podcast
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Yes... are you aware of Jerzy Grotowski? He theorized in the 60s about a "Theatre of poverty" in opposition to cinema. it would not compete in special effects, grandeur etc where cinema wins every time, but in human presence...
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heck yeah!
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I'm interested in the metaphor "pull the rug out from under ourselves" ... I think you mean to abandon our security in this society, leap into the unknown... take ourselves by surprise. take action now even if it puts us at risk.
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and I somehow created a link to a website called "maybe" that doesn’t exist?
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This is very true. I moved to Europe in 2018. I didn’t go back to the US until 2021. In the meantime all I read about the US made me think everyone turned mean. But when I went back I was shocked at how laid-back and friendly almost everyone seemed to be.
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a short clip. see the beginning of this thread for the link to my site
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That being said, rich people are not a kind, but a condition of people.
And since their greed just might destroy all life on earth and everything beautiful you ever loved or hoped or dreamed of, well, I think it’s quite OK to have a little fun … “at their expense.”
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that wouldn't change the fact that there would still be plenty of rich boys exploiting the world and thinking they had a right to. It’s the systems that allow that to happen that need changing. Groups of people are not to blame.
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So, these are historical reasons for writing this song. I don’t mean to direct my hatred towards one person or one group, though. If Elon Musk or Donald Trump were to magically disappear, well, I wouldn’t feel too sorry, but ...
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Now, Elon Musk, this once widely-admired guy, has also expressed his sympathies with racism and fascism, though he has also illegitimately assumed unchecked power over the government of the USA. Quite a ways more extreme than Lindbergh.
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Charles Lindbergh showed sympathy for Nazi Germany as Hitler gained power in the 1930s. He joined an organization called, what do you know, America First, which is one of the main #MAGA slogans today, and which Woody Guthrie refers to in his song.
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Charles Lindbergh was a daring pilot who was greatly admired by the public. Elon Musk held a similar position for a while, as a "brilliant, hard-working rich man" directing his wealth towards solving (what he saw as) humanity’s greatest problems.
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Woody took the tune from Charlie Poole’s song about the slow post-shooting death of President William Mckinley, “White House Blues.” Mckinley was pretty fond of tariffs like the current president, who is trying to name Mt. Denali after him.
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the NYT is referring to proposed genocidal act as a "development" plan
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Humanity is the cosmos as much as any other creature or object and should respect the limitations that implies in order to feel the beauty of the joyous motion that underpins everything
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ingenious ways of attenuating them. I came to these ideas through David Graeber -- his books The Dawn of Humanity, Debt, and Bullshit Jobs.
I think the world and nature and the cosmos are fantastically amazingly wonderful and as much as our society has tried to separate itself, it will always fail.
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and the incredible diversity of possible societies. An aim of colonialist capitalism seems to be to reduce the powers of the imagination to envision different social arrangements. Of course, even within small-scale indigenous communities greed and violence are present, but they often have...
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I agree and feel that there is a deeply-rooted tendency in colonial European societies to use terms such as "humanity" to refer pretty much to their own societies. I noticed this in myself first, and in lots of progressive discourse. There’s still a faulty perception of the breadth of humanity...