[HT: Casey]
WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
Gerard Van der Leun
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
Gary Snyder
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
— BY THEODORE ROETHKE
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
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Wait.
I thought the word was that the hoon offed hisself?
If so, where are all these *hero’s* coming from?
Oh that’s right.
Participation trophies for all!
The perp took a round in the torso, and in the leg, from the citizen shooter. The story is that he shot himself at the end of the getaway, and I’m not sure how that part goes. The citizen shooter wholly disabused the perp of what he planned to do next, which could’ve included shooting up another church, or a WalMart, or you name it.
Crowder: What can I do to help you?
Willeford: I cant even go out of the house because of the media. Get them out of here
Crowder:………………silence………………..says nothing, does nothing
The USA has occasional hysterias. It’s been that way since the Salem Trials. I think this is another one. Loser and lost men think they are allowed a moment of revenge-driven madness on their way to the abyss. Most hysterias burn themselves out, as people slowly recognize the evil being done . This is not like that, this will have to be excised.
I don’t think there’s a way to identify these men in advance. I think there’s something in our culture that has been lost, something that once stayed the acts of these men.
This idea of dragging screaming innocents into the pit in order to not be alone, that must be purged. It will have to done by indirect means. The next time somebody is acting out his evil last moments, he ought to first see a forest of black-pitted muzzles pointing right back at him. If he’s sending evil down-range, he should damn well know that he’s gonna get a sustained volley of righteous return fire. Like what happened to the Daltons at Coffeyville, and the James-Youngers’ at Northfield. We must return to those days, at least for a while.
My brothers, we men are not granted lives of peace and tranquility, but one of duty and honor. It is our privilege to defend our civilization against its enemies.
It’s a little bigger than that John.
Look at what this loser brought onto his family.
The scorn, the embarrassment.
Or maybe they don’t care.
Whatever.
I come from a time when such things mattered.
You do not bring bad attention to your family.
Ever.
If you did the family disowned you.
If, when I was 23 and fresh out of the army, I had went bezeek and killed a bunch of people that “hero” wouldn’t have had a chance to shoot me cause my dad and his 2 brothers and my own 2 brothers would have chased me down instantly and I would have wished I was dead when they were through with me then they would have dragged me to the police dept and turned my ass in.
In the graduating class of 1972 at Fort Myers High School in Fort Myers, Florida there were several hundred students and out of all of them one girl became pregnant and she was quickly removed from the school. Just one. You don’t bring bad attention to your family nor your community and especially your school.
Contrast that with today. A girl getting pregnant while still in school is a badge of success, plus, the gov’t will reward her greatly. Everyone has traded true pride for false bravado and charcter doesn’t matter. Thank you Jethro Klintin.
Hollow, worthless people, lacking in substance and these shooters are endemic.
The brutal truth is that in an American adult male population of about 100,000,000, human nature extremes have resulted in about 5 – 10 mass murderers in recent years.
Go find and disempower them before they murder.
Don’t forget to ferret out deliberate polluters, pharmaceutical safety fakers, VA neglectful administrators, automotive safety sellouts, …,
resulting in 1000s of unnecessary deaths (murders, maimings).
No participation trophies in rural Texas. Mr Willeford & Mr Langendorff will be rewarded with a phalanx of media on their doorsteps, and vicious twatteratie in the twitterverse. Their quick-thinking,level-headedness is unfathomable to the people shoving mics in their faces.
In the next few days,they will be honored to attend the funerals of their townspeople,including the small children shot point-blank to hush their crying.
Willeford & Langendorff are normies in the America I was blessed to grow up in.
Well said, Miss Nori.
The man was well trained in firearms and when the time came, had enough courage to face the elephant.
That’s right on the money, Kansas.