Brilliantly, sadly observed

[David Morris]

I think the Tao concept is of a wheel, a cycle. Things reach completion,
and then they unwind, fall apart.

David Morris

On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gurdjieff said 70 or 80 years ago that human progress is a fiction, and we
> are actually devolving. I don't want to believe it, but the evidence seems
> to say he was right.
> In Taoist thought, when something reaches it's extreme, it swings back in
> the opposite direction. How much more extreme can the shit git?
> Even all of that is surface, since deep down, nothing changes, and the
> one, not being conscious of other, remains always as it is...
> -from SC, where a bottle of wine can work wonders..
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>
>
> On Nov 24, 2015, at 11:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> We, USA,  aren't that Nazi gone. Fox GOP want us there, but we aren't
> there yet.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','thesaintgodard at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> There are plenty of educated racists, but to take a cue from Ish,
>> they're still ignorant losers. I want Trump investigated and
>> thoroughly hosed with scandal. It offends the hell out of me that a
>> man running for that house on the hill said a heckler deserved to be
>> physically abused. Everything about Trump grates. This IS how Hitler
>> got started.
>>
>> On 11/24/15, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's not only the semi-literate, either. Anybody here ever happen across
>> > www.counter-currents.com?
>> >
>> > J
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:09 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> "It's clear now that the Paris attacks enormously energized the
>> Trumpist
>> >> movement. He's now speculating openly about invading Syria. Trump's
>> >> proposals have gone from overt prejudice to things literally taken out
>> of
>> >> late Weimar history — closure of mosques and a national Muslim
>> database.
>> >> The rank-and-file have both fed off and stoked this behavior. When a
>> lone
>> >> protester started chanting "black lives matter" at a Trump rally,
>> >> Trumpists
>> >> jumped him (he was luckily not badly injured). Trump later said, "Maybe
>> >> he
>> >> should have been roughed up." Hours later he lied about witnessing
>> Muslim
>> >> crowds celebrating 9/11, and retweeted nonsense racist garbage from a
>> >> literal neo-Nazi."
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://theweek.com/articles/590497/donald-trumps-alarming-skid-toward-outright-fascism
>> >>
>> >> After decades of being allowed to stockpile arms with increasingly
>> little
>> >> federal interference, a general escalation in the violent rhetoric of
>> the
>> >> right, and shrill sponsorship from the NRA, semiliterate
>> knuckle-draggers
>> >> are only too eager to start a race / "religious" war in the U.S., and
>> the
>> >> candidates, allowed to start their noisome campaigns two years in
>> advance
>> >> of an actual election, are only egging them on.
>> >>
>> >> I live in a state where black churches were burned, in a city with
>> clear
>> >> color lines.  I'm not afraid of black people.  I'm afraid of shitheads
>> >> teething for glory.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:37 PM, David Kilroy <
>> thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Apologies for harping on this point.  Know that I do.  But it frankly
>> >>> terrifies me.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:17 PM, David Kilroy <
>> thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> (shades of Lot 49, too: recall the swastika armbands)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:16 PM, David Kilroy
>> >>>> <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> The tech sector's too "What, me worry?" about the problem.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Anonymity in comments threads, Craigslist, 4chan, Reddit et al
>> permit
>> >>>>> open promulgation of hate speech.  Most sites, when confronted about
>> >>>>> the
>> >>>>> problem, cite free speech as a concern when the fact is they don't
>> want
>> >>>>> to
>> >>>>> face the added hassle of verifying accounts and making people
>> >>>>> responsible
>> >>>>> for their words.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> There's a massive network of these shitheads armed for a race riot
>> and
>> >>>>> no-one seems to want to stop them.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Steven Koteff
>> >>>>> <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>> >>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Thanks a lot for this, Mark. Reading it now, and I agree with you.
>> >>>>>> Very smart and sadder for it.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> >>>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Charlie Pierce on the Powder Keg that is the United States of
>> >>>>>>> America
>> >>>>>>> right now
>> >>>>>>>
>> http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39987/america-race-powderkeg/
>> >>>>>>> …
>> >>>>>>> -
>> >>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> --
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>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
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>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
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