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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
Gerard Van der Leun
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
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
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.
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Over a dozen years ago, I got a rise out of another artist at the art fair in sausalito. We were going through the parking lot, and there was a FreeTibet bumper sticker on, I guess it was, a hippy van. I said, “yeah! I’m waiting for the army of hippies to muster up and go free Tibet.”
He was incensed. He thought it was a perfectly fine sentiment and tried to push it back at me. In those days, you could have a conversation, see.
Fucking Tibet. Looks like we’re all Tibetans, now.
Worshipping mammon. These corporations are an embarrassment to traditional American values.
Is it so difficult for those in positions of executive management to speak the truth about what authoritarian regimes are and that our system in the west is better? It is very clear if one takes off the blinders of political correctness.
From the HK protests to the craven corporate whores, one of this bodes well for Taiwan and I fear it will only embolden CCP / Xi to move aggressively on them and soon.
Apple. Marvel. ESPN. Princeton. Star Wars.
All pretty Woke, too. Any correlation?
JWM
Kowtowing to filthy lucre,global style.
Take note of these corps.
Kevin sed: “It is very clear if one takes off the blinders of political correctness.”
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How in the world could a sane person put them on in the first place?
What I see is twenty-nine reasons to be thankful for President Donald Trump. A Man in Full.
Me too John
Me three John