Now what

                                                           Remember that WW II was "The War to end all Wars" and there must have been a corollary :  `There will never be another Hitler` .   Here's another of my pet expressions ;  "How did things get so fucking fucked-up ?"   Good question .

                           The WORLD "jumped in" to rescue itself from the FLOOD of Nazi-ism , and the Ocean of Suffering it pumped into and onto a (mostly Innocent) naive World .    Academic Apathy appears as Universal .  There was Outrage expressed, sorta, but NO Plan or Strategy was devised and certainly no REAL Effort was  exerted  to STOP trump despite trump's egregious World-Splitting Actions .   Logic dictates that we see the World's Leaders as offspring of , you guessed it, MY Generation .   2 words, Un-Deniable .

                            Recall , "In times of Peace, prepare for war, in times of War prepare for Peace."   Well......here we are .   

                            Now what ............ .

                             

"There ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues" -- The Who

                                                           It was George Santayana who wrote, "Those that cannot remember the Past are condemned to repeat it." .   It can be found in his Life of Reason, which he penned in 1905, [according to my search engine 'Co-Pilot'] .   I have used his observation extensively and obviously consider it Truth , but is it >True< in all cases and in all instances ?   

                            My Generation protested Viet Nam .   The Protesting was national, meaning EVERY College and University Protested and the FEELING that the War was UN-JUSTIFIED was ubiquitous .   Ya-wanna believe that the FEELING produced by War is Universal, and should be Condemned BY EVERYONE  including  those  Students of Academia .    So what happened ?     Why haven't they Protested ?  

                           In the previous blog I mentioned My Generation and the uneasy sensation I experienced because of a Thought that MY Generation was "at fault" for what appears as 'Academic Apathy' .   These Students, these kids, ARE the offspring of one-time hippies gone the way of Yuppification ---  OF COURSE MY Generation is at Fault, who else COULD IT BE ???  

Molt or Mutation ?

                                                           I had no plans to write this morning -- I'm going through some sort of 'molt' , the kind where the old is no longer serviceable but the new has undergone what I think is a mutation .   There's a GREAT 'line' ;  "Some people change, some people mutate."   I love that .  I am a mutation .

                           Yesterday while I was trying to raise a 500 rock into place on top of a much larger boulder, I had a sickening sensation that it was MY Generation that is responsible for the Present Day American Crisis of Truth Evaporation .    Keep in Mind I AM a "Child of the 70's" the EARLY 70's to be specific ---  I was at U.Conn. from 1970 to 1974 and was subject to the Hippie >Movement< which is code for a Drug Using Sub-Culture , and of course the Anti- War Movement, a response to Viet Nam .   Normally I would shrug off such a consideration because of Because .   I'm no fan of Hippies, I'm like "Cartman" of "South Park" notoriety whose distaste for all things Hippie defines his Existence .   In my Mind, the Hippie Movement FAILED except for one HUGE component =  The War Protest , and THAT may be the "Saving Grace" of Hippiedom, and then again, it may NOT .

                         2 words :   Hippies became Yuppies .   Not good .

Miss Hap

                                                           In many ways Obama was a "can opener", meaning he "opened up a can of worms" --- he freed the Minds of MILLIONS to express their True Selves, which, as it turned out, was the BIRTH of the 2nd Confederacy, a Confederacy that was NEVER Defeated in the first place , a Confederacy whose sole {Soul} Objective was the DESTRUCTION of Northern Democracy Ideology in such a way as to ensure a RETURN of an "Antebellum" South and ALL its HATRED .   Here it is where "we" learned  that "there are more of them then there are of 'us' ".   They elected trump  TWICE !!!  So much RAW POWER -- so much HATRED,  so much FURY .   

                           If it can be said that Lincoln freed the Slaves, it must also be said that Obama freed the South .   It can't get no uglier .   There ain't-gonna be no greater SORROW .

"the Young and the Restless"

                                                           Elsewhere I have contended that if Obama HADN'T been elected there would be no trump .   I and Others, insist that the election of trump wasn't just a "backlash" it was a WHITE-LASH, meaning, at least HALF THE NATION went clinically BERSERK, when Obama was Elected---folks were INCENSED that a "nigger" `got into` Office and when trump "entered the scene"  they found their man--   >A< "man" who would serve their purposes, quite nicely .   Many DO NOT WANT ANY  connection between Obama's Election and that of trump ---I reject their rejection .

                           FROM OUT OF NOWHERE {it seemed} folks were "showing their TRUE colors", the colors of RAW HATRED and FURY .   They "came out of the woodwork" to vote for their man, a RASCIST, a White Supremacist, a Bigot, and a "man" whose HATRED of Women, especially STRONG Woman, {Strong BLACK Women} resonated with an entire generation of misfits and ne'er-do-wells, whose own weaknesses found mirror and echo in trump's .  Some say it was THIS hideous "Band of Indigents" who "turned" the Election over to trump and his .  It's tough to deny this 'charge' .

Obama

                                                           Let's not go too crazy over Obama, what he did, and didn't do, and his legacy .   Don't get me rwong* -----yet .   I like the guy. I like what he tried to do but I want to make sure "both sides" get 'heard' .   

                              He ran on ending the War in Afghanistan but the Mil told him there would be DISASTROUS Consequences, so he didn't .   As I just wrote, he focused on the ACA and to his credit, it 'went through' .  However the War `raged` and BILLIONS were spent in Afghanistan to build a society and culture that could be recognized as something of an American colony .   We know how THAT ended .

                              I need to remind my Gentle Readers that when putin INVADED Crimea Obama and his World Friends DID NOTHING but condemn putin in "the strongest terms" .   They handed Crimea 'over-to' putin ...no questions asked .   Within months putin marshalled troops along the Ukraine border, and STILL Obama and his World Friends stood by and did NOTHING .  We know how THAT ended .

                             As far as Obama's Nobel Peace Prize 'went', Obama had his finger on the "Kill" button and he pushed that Button HUNDREDS of times, KILLING 'perceived' Enemies , WITHOUT any Declaration of War, at least Any I can recall .   He was a Killer, albeit LEGALLY (and some would argue ILL -LEGALLY) which is NOT "a bad thing" {that's bullshit it IS a bad thing}, since we paid him for such hideously ugly "Wet Works" as the CIA is fond of using to describe "Black Ops" those where DEATH is the chosen form of action .  

                            Obama ain't no Saint------------not even close .

Miss Givings

                                                           64.  Wei Chi  /   Before Completion

                            "The victory has been won .  The power of steadfastness has not been routed .  Everything has gone well .  All misgivings have been overcome .  Success has justified the deed .  The light of a superior personality shines anew and makes its influence felt among men who have faith in it and rally around it .  The new time has arrived, and with it good fortune .  And just as the sun shines forth in redoubled beauty after rain, or as a forest grows more freshly green from charred ruins after a fire, so the new er appears all the more glorious by contrast with the misery of the old."

                           2 words :   Don't we wish ... .