As we “wrap-up” this season of surfeit and spending, perhaps we should commit, in the coming year, to a serious investigation into the many cons—beyond this seasonal Santa-con—that Babylon (and her minions) have been and are inflicting upon us. This Déjà Vu ~ Times blog and the Déjà Vu ~ Times II blog1 have already […]
Considering: from Flickr.com (Bing) ▪ “endless,” end-of-days prophecies, interpretations, and misinterpretations(?);▪ innumerable televangelists converting “seed” into mammon and sheep’s clothing;1▪ vain ‘n profane speech and entertainments;▪ denigration of the poor, the innocent, the oppressed, and the unborn;2▪ chem-dumping worldwide in land, sea, sky, and body;3▪ sequential profiteering wars and preludes to more;▪ Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Perhaps on this historic May Day,† we could profit from mourning these words of Thomas Jefferson: I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. (Thomas Jefferson ~ 18161)
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At some future day, say even 100 years hence, will observers look back upon the age of baby-boomers and their offspring as a bizarre time of dizzying technology AND stupefying intransigence? Will someone begin to quote Charles Dickens,1 lamenting: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age
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