Not P just Dylan's latest by indirection

[ish mailian]

What will happen in the poor nations of Africa?
Will Chinese soft power save the poor blacks, a new paternalism?
We must have comedy and satire so we can dismantle the conflicts, the
fights, the wars, so that dialogue can begin laughing on our knees. As
Bill Withers sez, Lean on me. We got to lean on and we got to stop
trying to make the best political use of a crisis.
Surely, comedy is better than the bickering, finger pointing, the
political revisionism, and the fog.

Chomsky, I say,  would get it.
Like how we learned to love the plague.


On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:37 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not an American, so your 45 not mine, but no. He's spot on.
>
> Good to call to the German government on selfishness. Open the purse
> Andrea and spend to support the PIIGS.
> Spend to support the the world. But Germany, with its fetish for the
> Zero, though reluctantly has let a few moths out of the purse, is
> looking out for Germany.
>
> Thus far, the worst by, far is the USA. Not surprising.
> Though Brazil may take the biggest loser prize yet. A trillion BRL is
> a drop in the bucket.
> They are behind the curve big time.
> Pity the Latin American Nations with no chance and winter on the way.
> Disaster made worse because the USA and Japan ans Europe, the wealthy
> nations, WHO...etc....fumbled and, not to mention the assholes trying
> to win oil market share.
>
> Shocking, indeed.
>
> What can we do? Laugh though our hearts are breaking.
> But let us not let Chomsky or anyone else off the hook.
> This is not a war. He condones the military language. BS. This is a
> pandemic not a war.
>
> War is not the answer, Brother.
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 11:58 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is he so wrong, calling your President a sociopathic buffoon?
> >
> > "In Europe, to some extent, it's happened. Germany ... did have spare diagnostic capacity and was able to act in a highly selfish fashion, not helping others but for itself at least, to evident reasonable containment.
> >
> > Other countries just ignored it. The worst was the United Kingdom and the worst of all was the United States.
> >
> > One day he says, 'There is no crisis, it's just like flu.' The next day, 'It's a terrible crisis and I knew it all along.' The next day, 'We have to go back to the business, because I have to win the election'. The idea that the world is in these hands is shocking."
> >
> > No?
> >
> >
> > Am Sa., 4. Apr. 2020 um 16:55 Uhr schrieb ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> In the classical tradition, Sophocles and Thucydides have been
> >> mentioned here, and I would add Aristophanes.
> >> Aristophanes?   Plague jokes? Yeah, we need a comic look at all this.
> >>
> >> How bad is this: Watching old man Chomsky try to tie Event 201 to
> >> Neoliberalism? Can we make fun of Chomsky? The disease is everywhere
> >> and it stains everything, even our greatest intellectuals.
> >>
> >> "This coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented, the information
> >> was there to prevent it. In fact, it was well-known. In October 2019,
> >> just before the outbreak, there was a large-scale simulation in the
> >> United States - possible pandemic of this kind," he said, referring to
> >> an exercise - titled Event 201 - hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center
> >> for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and
> >> the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 8:47 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > "Stan Brakhage, the filmmaker, once banned the newspaper from his house and
> >> > substituted Tacitus, which he read to his family daily. He had reached the
> >> > assassination of Caesar on November 22, 1963."
> >> > --
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