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[rich]

howdy

not to beat a dead horse filmmaker Adam Curtis has said the left needed an
overreaching idea to inspire real change. the global pandemic would suggest
an opportunity. I am somewhat curious we haven't heard from Curtis since
the pandemic broke. I'd be very interested to hear what he thinks now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlaPZ-xMPGY

rich

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:26 AM <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hadn’t thought of that David and now I do.
> Oh well such is life that my hellacious mess outlives me.
>
> Mark, wise words and ones to hold onto.
> I really feel like this marks a change, a (not so subtle) shift in the way
> our story was playing out.
> I have hope now for Europe that I was losing by increments due to the rise
> of populism. This may be just wild optimism that C19 can beat this back but
> it may work and I hope the same can be said of the US, unless the carbuncle
> that is Trump pulls something amazing out of his bag of tricks.
>
> Stay safe people!
> Jb
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 31 Mar 2020, at 11:49, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I want to cheer David's ability to be succinctly, observationally
> smart--as
> > well as smart at length, of course.
> > While he cleans and lives long and longer.
> >
> > "Dramatic' is one word that is better than so many I hear from my circle,
> > my townsfolk and friends.
> > Because they, like all of us are worried---often mostly for loved ones,
> > because we roll that way---
> > but fewer are articulating the good, changes for the good right now, I
> > think, which is/are also happening.
> > And changes which might drastically not be for the good.
> >
> > Both dramatic. Like Shakespeare.
> >
> >
> >>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:17 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On NPR this morning I heard a 20 year old woman describe her first
> >> caronavirus symptoms:as a soar throat day one, followed by high fever
> next
> >> day. So I started soon to feel an itch in my throat this morning.
> Thoughts
> >> of how badly my place needed cleaning when they found me dead made me
> >> wonder if I could clean while dying. I don't usually do drama, but I
> might
> >> be going there now.  These are dramatic times.
> >> David Morris
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