It hurts and is a mystery.

[Allan Balliett]

I have to insert a recommendation to read this great new book by Raj Patel
(it's an easy, informative and terrifying read)

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism,
Nature, and the Future of the Planet
<https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293137>

It's simply horrifying to have to realize how far back the roots of
Capitalism go as it is to see how consistently they've pursued one of their
highest goals - CHEAP LABOR

While I'm here, I really enjoyed the FX series TABOO
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15f6d65ca27dbaa3> which, as I
watched, I liked to think it of as related to M&D if only in that it was
somewhat related to the settling of the border between the US and Canada,
although in much more recent times (at the close of the War of 1812) More
or less a BBC project, the sets and hardware are  done in such great detail
I had to imagine I was watching a documentary filmed as it happened. The
tie in here is that the villain (unless the protagonist is also a villain)
is The Dutch East India Company, in a picture of an early corporation
already wealthy enough to manipulate the earth and it's many governments
for its own purposes. Tom Hardy's portrayal of a man who has returned to
London from his African adventure an imperfect hybrid of a civilized man
and the actual depths of human being was, to me, unforgettable. I just wish
I better knew how he and his dad were able to write the scripts for this
series (now extended to 3 years)

Allan in WV

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark, that’s perfect! and Jochen, thanks for the context. I just read this
> book last week. Those darned aliens are so undependable.
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> On Oct 30, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Vonnegut quote in its context:
>
> ‘If we must,’ said Wilder, and the grin went on and on. ‘I have to tell
> you, though, that you are not the first person to say the game was all over
> for the human race. I’m sure that even in Egypt before the first pyramid
> was constructed, there were men who attracted a following by saying “it’s
> all over now”.’
>
> ‘What is different about now as compared with Egypt before the first
> pyramid was built –‘ Ed began
>
> ‘And before the Chinese invented printing, and before Columbus discovered
> America,’ Jason Wilder interjected.
>
> ‘Exactly,’ said Bergeron.
>
> ‘The difference is that we have the misfortune of knowing what’s really
> going on,’ said Bergeron, ‘which is no fun at all. And this has given rise
> to a whole new class of preening, narcissistic quacks like yourself who say
> in the service of the rich and shameless polluters that the state of the
> atmosphere and the water and the topsoil on which all life depends is as
> debatable as how many angels can dance on the fuzz of a tennis ball.’
>
> He was angry.
>
> Bergeron’s epitaph, which he said should be carved in big letters in a
> wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this:
>
> WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP
>
>
> From his novel Hocus Pocus (1990)
>
> 2017-10-30 9:53 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>
>> Keith,
>>
>> Maybe it will survive --with music!
>>
>> http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/10/26/listen_to_the
>> _greatest_songs_about_aliens_wiping_us_out.html
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It was only ever "ours" by conceit.  It will survive us, if necessary.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:22 AM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kurt Vonnegut said it best, “We could have saved our planet, but we
>>>> were just too cheap.”
>>>>
>>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 29, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/octopus-crawling-out-se
>>>> a-wales-11425946
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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