tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927396480055054170.post6272258045222277087..comments2023-06-08T06:53:33.892-04:00Comments on A TRANSIT OF CONTINGENCIES: 1969Bruce Duensinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06770861553045757360noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927396480055054170.post-41553401282844883532014-04-25T09:19:37.325-04:002014-04-25T09:19:37.325-04:00Devin
There is a tenuous link between 1969 and the...Devin<br />There is a tenuous link between 1969 and the current catastrophe in Englewood and that is in the form of a question. How many other animals create their own problems by the nature of their consciousness? In 1969, as kids our environment was a pressure cooker and we knew that and reacted to the failures of materialism while being in the midst of a meaningless war, political assassinations and the struggle for civil rights. Out of that came the nascent movements for ecology, civil rights, alternative consciousness, activism against propaganda, war, corporate profiteers, etc. This generation lives in a pressure cooker with more far reaching catastrophic issues such as climate change, the consolidations of institutional power, and within this, political malfeasance. Yet as they say, the roaring silence of ambivalence is striking..Why is this?<br />The consolidation of capitalised corporations in size and influence is equally striking from the ownership of media to the purchasing of legislation, which has a paramount agenda, to accumulate wealth. How do we define wealth?<br />If the genocide in Englewood was constituted by white kids instead of African American kids, would there be more of an effort to get to the root cause? The root cause is poverty and the line between the haves and have nots is becoming bolder, more pronounced. Why is there no investment in Englewood to create living wages to eradicate the core situation?<br />Bruce<br />Bruce Duensinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06770861553045757360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927396480055054170.post-10356189495328154962014-04-25T01:02:32.395-04:002014-04-25T01:02:32.395-04:00Hi Bruce,
really into reading your blogs lately-no...Hi Bruce,<br />really into reading your blogs lately-no matter the subject!!<br />the piece about Chicago is sad beyond belief -<br />One thing that has been having a very 'unhealthy' fascination for me the last few years is how deeply our society and mankind is hypnotized-<br />why -when we are given such comparatively huge brain boxes do we insist on acting like a schizophrenic herd? Your recent posts here plus the surreal 'foreign policy' of this nation (UKR 'crisis' etc) plus my reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich leave me stunned at the hideousness of what can lurk in the human mind.<br /><br />atb my friend-I hope you are well,<br />Devin<br />Devinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467101354793913827noreply@blogger.com