Our evermore increasingly intriguing world takes for granted that everything seems within our grasp now for just a few dollars more. So much code is already installed in our computers, that using them on a user-friendly basis, even the most naive are capable of outstanding accomplishments. As NPR’s Stan Alcorn reported, “what professionals use is now affordable for amateurs.” For a relatively small amount of money we’re all in one way or another functioning in a worldNASA used to spend billions on for a few to participate in while we watched.
And Maker Faire, hosted this past weekend by the New York Hall of Science in Queens, is all about how no one has to be satisfied watching anymore. Whatever can be manufactured within reason, and who could really know that limit, can be done all by ourselves if we only learn to teach ourselves how.
I’ve been told exhibitors at trade shows really enjoy sharing what they sell. But Maker Faire turns that up a notch as their hearts are in relaying what you can create on your own. Harkening back to Aldous Huxley’s warning in his novel Brave New World that if we allow everything to be provided for us we’ll no longer have our own lives. Yet Maker Faire is not so ominous. Their message is how fun making things is that Business Insider shows in a photo montage.
A Red Square stage festival, covered by RT, concluded the Russia Day Celebration of Russian independence from the Soviet Union, while reports of no arrests during the earlier in the day protest march made this, despite the dissatisfaction with government progress, a great day in the history of Russian politics, so far. For example anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navaly, liberal activist Ilya Yashin and TV host Ksenia Sobchak attended interrogation appointments preventing their going to the demonstration, while leftist politician Sergei Udaltsov ignored his summons, saying it was his duty to lead the protest as one of the organizers. But Russia’s Investigative Committee said it wouldn’t seek his immediate arrest and interrogate him later. While Monday fear hung over the city of 1937 secret police type life disruptions that had entailed family members becoming virtually lost by the system. Except this time a suspect was actually found with a lot of money in their apartment and trusted on their own recognizance to turn up for questioning and miss the protest. Neither was a choice in 1937.
But just so there’s no over-confidence Reuters covered the announcement by four bipartisan United States Senators behind rescinding a Cold War era law that limited trade with Russia because as Russia enters the free-trade World Trade Organization, Americans need to compete on better footing with the rest of the world trading with Russia. The money that’s eventually coming might never reach a majority of demonstrators but it’s possible that’s the incentive behind the demonstrators’ protection today. Before the demonstration the police even announced there’d be less police presence, strangely understanding that might agitate the crowd less. Quite a day. The Chicago Sun-Times covered an Opposition Rally composed of the most organized nationalists yet to participate in the demonstrations, with their yellow, black and white flag. As nerve-wracking as so many strong voices in contradiction may be, Russians are feeling they’re participating in politics which should give their president every reason to feel so very proud.
RT even cites presidential press-secretary Dmitry Peskov in a letter to the Financial Times newspaper saying Russia’s new law on street protest violations is a step toward creating legislation similar to that in European countries. As rigid as Putin’s government feels toward demonstrations, at least a spokesman bothered to try to explain.
This is Russia Today‘s Protest Manifesto coverage and maybe with the unexpected miracles so far even President Vladimir Putin himself might read it, eventually.
6/12/2012 concluded: This is Russia Today's Protest Manifesto coverage and maybe with the unexpected miracles so far even President Vladimir Putin himself might read it, eventually.
The earth excavated for money that flew too far away from the hollowed-out states to industry's more realistically important outlets and markets. But everything's not as bad as alarmists claim is the heard mantra. "This is surviving." Blazing trails through handed down liberal hocus pocus diluting smoky-mirrored facts? Because the harm can't be measured from denying pollution's harmful enough? Well? There you go. If Americans can't explain nature's devolution well enough to ourselves. China's just going to have to understand this themselves. Heaven knows they rode bikes before buying into the Mobile Thrones' successful three-ringed commercial-circus. Making wrong from a right and captivating lights. That the planet's had stars in our eyes is not the cars' fault.
Yeah, the point. The original essay's point. Well? It's doubtful President Putin's reading and, if he were, there's no point re-repeating myself. Trigger profits by ensuring oil's more precious? How ruthless, though already a part of everyones' legacies. The ethicalloop hole everyone's responsible. I ride a bike. Why can't the President hold-his-own? Because Progress is more than a toy, or has the smartphone finally proven joy's all life means? Anyway. Until exploiting ourselves proves less profitable, we're stuck with the future's technology and consciousnesses worthy of Mobile Thrones. When probably just a really huge, (no one can afford?), logarithm could dig us out. Right. We're still here. P.T. Barnum's world hasn't shed Stalin's fantasy. The delusional thread that ran right down the middle of the Cold War. Where the right everyone fought for was keeping their jobs. Including, and, or, especially, SPIES INC. That, in retrospect, though goofy enough, still poisons today's relations. Realistically. Yet there's a shiftlessness to authoritarianism, that, at best, is ego thwarting real ambition "for the people." So, we are in the middle of the great market-share tug-of-war over humanity's fuel use. The immense collision between the nobly individualist mobile throne and socialist train. Where America supported itself exploiting the car, while accomplishing things trains weren't organized to do then. But in the various aspects of service, access, and created wealth, we came up short at being smarter than ourselves. Shrewdly elevating the car's separation from the transportation equation. Think about it in traffic. Our own current President of the United States counts the saving of the auto industry as one of his administration's major accomplishments. Either way. No way people are letting go of their satisfyingly fulfilling, status machines. To put it bluntly. And in no way is the spoiled world involved. Drive Safe.
So. Everything'll be solved soon when the right logarithms have-a-hold. A real grip on where everything fits if programmed correctly. If we finally own up to having the financial guts to bridge and trestle everything to facilitate accidents' becoming less the result of design flaws. A relatively few accidents/mistakes a year when the percentage should be none? Railroad crossings saved on investment, but have done nothing but be excuses for avoiding solutions. Soon enough though we'll probably figure out how to profit from fuel made from anything. Except people would still need to fit the bike into their lives. SHARE THE INTERSTATES As inconvenient as slower vehicles seem, solving tragedies of any kind is the right equation. I wish I could recommend that everyone should ride a bike. Again, not my fault. Soapbox View
Get your Huxley App. Wherever minds are stole? Of course. The end of the line's been reached because profitable objective thinking legibly absorbed sycophantic buying's rule-of-thumb. From idealizing beliefs to washing minds clearly disposed to preferring a militarilyexcused, but inclined, Criminal Enterprise Systemthat enforces problems opportunistic state conspirators created for their own satisfaction. Morality isn't a hammer. Morality's ethical. Humans are a maze of contradictions. But revenge is still revenge. Right? The world's problems are all psychological. New York City's Police Chief Brattonderides subcultures and views a weed as responsible for a peaceful society having enemies. El Chapodidn't make the monster all by himself is his defense claiming less criminal intent. Lured by wealth into the socially distorted Criminal Enterprise System. Hallelujah! What would Law Enforcement do without criminalizing citizens for marijuana use? Please. Please, responsibility. We're nowhere blaming excuses.
It's been apparent for decades that what Aldous Huxley predicted for the future has taken place. Spectacularly sophisticated citizens simplistic enough not to fathom reality's problems have already molded us to accept the conflicts. Tradition compelled adherence primarily for the purpose of smoothing the path to the "right hands." Everyone knows there's a business of global warming that's adequately feeding and supporting families from both sides of the issue. Scientists crunching numbers till they're, in fact, spilt over too. Over something that's probably, already a, fait accompli, disaster. The horror. If moderations meant to reverse damage to the ecosystem stalled just for money? That'll be the future's memory of our present since they'll figure, apparently, we've not been all that smart with finance at all, after all. Mr. Buffett? Any plans to expand your rail-freight empire to include humans, or is the Train-Barons', Railroad Tycoons', detrimental legacy to remain intact for how many more generations? Where the country got out from under one yoke replaced with another. It's not just the car that needs a good mechanic. The Transportation System really needs us all to be the one.
But money talked people into really not liking each other enough to care whether tomorrow has to step over our generation's polished decline? That there's no change without finance the convenient excuse.Soapbox View
Free speech? No clue exists as to how expensive speech costs? Relative cost in time, probably: priceless. Why environmentally conscious accountants lose their hair over charity's disaster that, while necessary and noble, excuses our not facing everything. The guilt oozing from all the political positions' pores. Squeezed so everything'll come out? No, not quite. Polished.
Think America's lucky? Where self-servingly contrived ideas don't die. But are grilled over hostile embers removing the fingerprints at a tidyprofit. Blame then claim to restore an already restructuring itself, NewYorkCity, sufficiently prepared to profit on the allowed for exploited blight. It's easy to hold the door open for money. But the real work of securing a proportional flow? That's someone else's concern, plus beneath the interest and welfare of the voting public. Great. A son recited a list of all the things to be on the right side of rather than left. Emblematic of brands in a country conceived for individuals' independence but, actually, contrary to individualist dogma, mythologized powerful leaders who're hypnotized as all before have been by the idea the word mandate could ever apply. The first man of the moment, who'd tagged along, in a leadership role, furthering the Criminalization of America. Still rides those coattails trailing diamonds claimed to exemplify caring by being responsibly rough. Preaching what's wrong was better before. Plus forced to steal the word "change." While claiming awareness of where the confusion's from, there's still speech/preaching destruction is warranted revenge, not ridiculous fate. Last year's solution is next year's forever? No. Rudolph(Rudy)Giuliani. God can forgive and do whatever Allah wants. But the convention floor's domination by wailing for the continued militarization of victory is tasteless.
Signed: Registered Republican, Charles M. Fraser
Did you hear the one about politicians going into a bar? No one knew where the cash was specifically from. So, it seems, the cut was more democratic.
"Yes. What we need, now, is another, major, entertainment, spectacle." I looked at his plate wondering, get Dustin Hoffman to play the producer? And if, however well-meant, was the intent embellished just to mirror my clouded my mind? Except obviously. A sarcastic approach was understandable. So I countered, "Doped athletes?" And his somber head hung from the wine too. Ethical questions require less hype? But for some worlds there's no point otherwise. How else is attention grabbed? Our best, brightest and most prosperous thrive where listening's predisposed to not hearing what's not wanted told. Imagine the surprise at seeing forgotten e-mails. The possibility of not recognizing yourself. Maybe why people repeat what they're told because there's so much involved in originality? Because the process has us all out compliantly, cut-and-dried, and hung in line. Where nothing's developing a real difference calling itself change. People know what happens to opinion. That they either follow or seem to not care enough by not believing. Not sharing a significant role. Sycophantic patriotism becoming the only form of reliably trusted pride. Fine. Except straight from Stalinist behavior codes. Not to mention, but bring up. Wars are ruthless. So solving them is of absolute more importance than winning. More than a soundbites at relativeintervals. The point being some wars aren't meant to be lost. But I darn sure know the ones where people die are meant to end. But now here, in all our various Establishment Class glories coliseumly parade the belief total victory's the bottom line. Denying their shredding life with that vicious useless hammer revenge. That's been uselessly overdone again, and again. Heedlessly pursuing revenge's nonsense because there's not enough profit yet in peace that's, however often, an illusionalcharade. True, or not, the statement's legitimately undeniable. Though I'd not been listening for a while, I heard "we" had "to go" so we went. You couldn't believe how smooth the ride was. These huge machines not only categorically reinforce superior beliefs, they allow your your dream to luxuriate. In your time. Calculate opportunity, rehashing moments, that women carting water on their heads might have also gained nurtured learning, yet, still, not the same as water served ensconced in your own Mobile Throne on your own rolling estate. The train's goal in a well-thought-through transportation system.
May 8, 2012 & October 30th, 2015 Draft Below - .......
Positive greed is the theme behind the larger stakes and simple complexity of the ABC television series, Shark Tank that should place the show with Jeopardy among the greatest game shows ever. Seriously.
The game features individual budding entrepreneurs standing before five seated multi-rich investors who never undervalue their own worth. To directly quote the participant, and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, "there’s always a bargain in business and it’s not the sharks."
But the sharks’ tough exterior professionalism doesn’t restrict your seeing how much they’re getting off on demonstrating the bottom line dynamics of the investment business. Competition. Both between them and over why a product has half a chance. Watching, at first, it seems companies are sold away cheap without contestants even trying to negotiate an extra hundred grand out of the shrewd deal. But a viewer can soon learn to believe what the sharks preach is true. They hold keys to success as valuable as any, first ever invented, whatcha-ma-call-it gadget.
Front and Center, Keven O'Leary
They’re right to continuously outright brag they offer extremely qualified track records for entrepreneurial success. None operate the corner shoe store. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but all the Sharks have empire-sized egos that are enjoying being stroked by your seeing how exciting making money is and they’re doing it on television. Often, the seated in the middle shark, Kevin O’Leary’s professional reserve bubbles over as if he is ready to come out of his skin. Because Shark Tank’s cameras are pervasive and catch every snide competitive glance as tellingly well as the competently polished dramatics of Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice.
I’d hate to jinx Shark Tank, but it is as if the wheel always spins and there are no boring parts. Except maybe their flashy weekly repeated arrogant introduction. Though it is important to know how rich they are to realize the show is not about borrowing chump change to buy a franchise. It is about how big money rules the world and compelling to watch produced television at its finest.
Yes definitely some product presentations are a little schmaltzy, but every idea undergoes financial scrutiny so entrepreneurs appear to at least leave wiser. While Jeopardy! is just about what contestants already know.
Links & Pictures added December 3, 2012 & January 24, 2013.
January 2, 2014: I continue to like Shark Tank. Jumping the shark from the get-go, devouring entrepreneurs could never grow stale since selling is flash this show was just made for TV.
The Soapbox View's adding essays to untouched originals starting with, this one, the first, Shark Tank ... . There are presently 185. And though possible to like ranting, daily, about anything. My aim is to not just repeat redundancies while emphasizing substance. Post-dated additions to the earlier, shorter, news essays, especially, is, I believe, reaching for quality quantity without short-shrifting either goal. Maybe look for why history's always staying the same?
Shark Tank. Theoretically does the show's example of celebrity investing undercut or take competitive advantage away from the entire investment theater if the answer seems it couldn't matter when they're really all sharks anyway? Business isn't ruthless per se. It's just hard, cold, reality probably reflected in the original essay, I've skipped reading, this time, for the fresh uninfluenced approach that seems appropriate concerning real reality television. Spontaneous or not. If only it were true the whole world just had to smile.
The show did a good thing by not overselling their brief spin-offs that followed entrepreneurs next commercial stage. There was a lot to be learned when CBS diluted the 60 Minutes Brand that will never have as much luster as it had no matter how many celebrity profiles are shown to not lose a mass audiences' shallower instincts. That's what's changed about America that once seriously watched 60 Minutes studiously and now can't get enough Celebrity Entertainment Complexities. And still I say, so what? Aldous Huxley said freedom would mean the liberty not to care but we're really so short of liberty freedom's code for blind loyalty.
Shark Tank? As diabolical as cut-throat elite entrepreneurs can appear, the real world needs all the excellent cartoons about ourselves as we can get. After all, if not for The Simpsons probably none of us would ever have to really admit we're all just a bunch of overly-sensitive sarcastic grifters.
Anyone notice watching television America's a preponderance of loud people. Broad sets of us describe the ins and outs of mega-empires and sports, extremely loud. Sharing victory's heavy slap because everyone's at least got smiling back-slapping down. The thought that led to this speculation is are all these really loud people found in America everywhere led by the ideal that anything, even bombs, get done as if just a five yard pass away?
Good night America. Advice is rest for a bright tomorrow and beware, of course, of critics in sheep's clothing, or not. Good morning world.
A constitution guaranteeing free speech doesn’t necessarily ensure a voice is heard, especially when stifling opposition opinion is such a calculating art. Reuters’ headline, Ethiopia jails blogger, reporters, opposition figures covered the sentencing of twenty Ethiopians, including a prominent blogger, journalists and opposition figures who were sentenced for between eight years to life for conspiring with rebels to topple the government. After a deeply disputed trial according to the LA Times. Ethiopian prosecutors also, invoking the “Arab Spring” protests that rocked the Middle East, accused some defendants of trying to foment violence.
European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was “seriously concerned” by the severity of the sentences that were also condemned by Amnesty International and other rights groups. A statement from the EU’s Ashton’s office said she was concerned the sentences had “a lack of clarity with regard to what constitutes a terrorism offence” that “can affect the freedom of expression enshrined in the Ethiopian Constitution.”
A major recipient of Western aid, Ethiopia is fighting separatist rebel movements and armed groups it says are backed by arch-foe Eritrea. But rights groups say Ethiopia regularly uses security concerns as an excuse to crack down on dissent and media freedoms. While no one was immediately available to comment on Friday, the Addis Ababa, Ethiopian government denies the charge and is a key ally in Washington’s campaign against Islamist militants in Somalia.
Prominent blogger and journalist Eskinder Nega was arrested last year and accused of trying to incite violence with a series of online articles gaining him imprisonment for 18 years. Five other exiled journalists were sentenced in absentia to between 15 years to life. Andualem Arage, from the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice Party was jailed for life. Two other prominent opposition figures, Berhanu Nega and Andargachew Tsige, both out of the country, received life sentences.
Quoted by Reuters, Judge Endeshaw Adane said in court, “The court has given due considerations to the charges and the sentences are appropriate.” At the time of last month’s conviction, the court said free speech could be limited when it undermined security. The 20 were charged last year, most in absentia, with counts including conspiracy to dismantle the constitutional order, recruitment and training for terror acts and aiding Eritrea and a rebel group to disrupt security. They were also accused of belonging to Ginbot 7, a group branded a “terrorist” organization by the government. “We can’t even express our fundamental rights anymore,” UDJ member Temesgen Zewdie told Reuters after the sentencing.
Amnesty International said: “The Ethiopian government is treating calls for peaceful protest as a terrorist act and is outlawing the legitimate activity of journalists and opposition members.” Ethiopia is close to replacing Eritrea as the African country with the highest number of journalists behind bars. Two journalists were each jailed for 14 years on similar charges in February, two months after two Swedish newsmen were sent to prison for 11 years on charges of entering the country illegally and aiding a rebel group.
Free speech groups denounced the jail terms and slammed the Ethiopian terrorism law as excessively vague and repressive, leaving journalists who merely interview dissidents vulnerable to arrest. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said the trial in Addis Ababa was troublingly flawed.
Peter Godwin, president of the PEN American Center anti-censorship group that honored Eskinder with its Freedom to Write award earlier this year, said, “The Ethiopian government clearly means to send a signal to its people. Speak against us, and you too could be jailed as a terrorist.”
Before his arrest in September, Eskinder penned a column questioning the arrest of another dissident accused of terrorism, saying the idea that a frail, easygoing man under heavy police scrutiny was conspiring with extremists “defies logic.” Yet Eskinder ended on a hopeful note. “Tyranny is in retreat everywhere. It has lost one of its two last great bastions, the Arab world. The momentum is now on the side of freedom,” Eskinder wrote.
After the sentencing, defense lawyer Abebe Guta told the Agence France-Presse news service that Eskinder would appeal his sentence, while his other clients were considering whether to do so. The Reporter Ethiopia.com also reported so there’s no lack of attention despite threat of government reprisal. Nonetheless nearly twenty years after world governments tried dissuading Nigeria from executing Ken Saro-Wiwa the problem remains of governments solving internal politics any way they see fit. Disregarding the rights of individuals where that relates to the undisputed power of the state.
8/13/2012 concluded: After the sentencing, defense lawyer Abebe Guta told the Agence France-Presse news service that Eskinder would appeal his sentence, while his other clients were considering whether to do so. The Reporter Ethiopia.com also reported so there’s no lack of attention despite threat of government reprisal. Nonetheless nearly twenty years after world governments tried dissuading Nigeria from executing Ken Saro-Wiwa the problem remains of governments solving internal politics any way they see fit. Disregarding the rights of individuals where that relates to the undisputed power of the state.
August 18 - November 16, 2017
That circumstances couldn't be more worse or wrong's a reasonable conjecture. But much worse, and wrong? All worst wrong. Impossible. But whatever explanations suffice, self-righteous zeal's what's held us all hostage to power's conceits. Terribly Exhaustive.
Consciously taken for granted, the game of controlling what people think, is, overall, a grab bag of unintended consequences from timid to severe. What power's wrought, can't but thunderous complaint and derision hold off at all. Pray, even that's not just contrived illusion.
Andualem Arage, Eskinder Nega, you, me, PEOPLE! Sure, every age has had a toying with minds for purely commercial purposes attached to it. Pillage by any other name. Money must stream and fine. But what the world's made of itself is not one expecting a general peace but excited by some eternal joy of competition.Such that as offended by violence, as we are. We've succumbed to a certain level of entertained hypnosis Aldous Huxley warned against. Technically, superficial celebrity competition substituting for an actual social awareness. It's all current events.
The following essay was submitted to The New York Times, August 14, 2017. (altering began Nov. 10, 2017) Because this appears here, most Florida, Georgia and Mississippi papers also silently declined, as well as many national and international publications. A Reason magazine editor appreciated the idea being passed by them.
Basically, no doubt, all abstentions are of a similar reasoning to a funding inquiry response from the Andy Warhol Foundation. "Unfortunately the project that you describe falls outside the bounds of the Foundation's guidelines and therefore we are unable to assist you." And an historical association apparently didn't blink stating their organization didn't fund presentations of that type.
When journalism's art is about what everyone agrees, perhaps jargon's been much too appealing to everyone? Well, now that the lark the many have spoken's been alluded to, here's what I wrote following the country's tragedy dumped on Charlottesville since the fashion's spreading blame and not really -
FACING THE LEGACY
I'd anticipated a week's more reflection for this Times submission, before last weekend's cultivated cultural catastrophe in Charlottesville, Virginia.
I offer no criticism as a white person, with possibly less of an obligation to apologize for the nonsense still going on, than, at least, some people. As this extremely pivotal event assisted in fashioning my life. November 3rd, 1972, some members of the Sanford, Florida Seminole High School Seminoles Marching Band executed a brilliant act of insubordination in, the currently named, Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium.
Before the half-time show's start, alert to suspicion, the Drum Major had even stepped back along the front end zone line and looked straight in my nodding nothing eyes. Surprise. At halftime's conclusion, without authorization, after the rest of the band cleared the field, a group of us suddenly replicated the famous FAMU Marching Band's spontaneous instrument twirling dance to a thunderous ovation.
The full account of the collaboration's including two white guys, who weren't trusted with leaking beforehand, is on pages 153 - 156 in, the Cold War parody, The Hammer and Cycle Messenger Service. An almost throw-away line, at the time, that evocatively elucidates racism's ridiculousness, was - "we'd probably get in less trouble" with the two white guys.
Also said before halftime's start, was the house "I was raised in was now a black funeral home." While unremarked was my home was a block from, the infamous Lake County Sheriff, Willis V. McCall's.
Cleve snapped, "... it's not that far away. Don't you think we already knew that about you?" Then while drawling out, "I think we'll always be linked," my eyes glazed over looking along the line of black faces turned towards me.
Whitewashed American History left a grime that's not cleansing because the future's only faced facing the past. Not just mirroring what's impossibly replaced. Solutions are scattered and bias ridden. Focus unfocused. Adjust the Criminal Enterprise System and stop pretending it's just the weak's delusions causing the disgraceful criminality and violence. This many centuries and still raising babies with violence? It's not just the politicians who're cornered into exploiting self-righteous misunderstandings. But all of us who, on various occasions, are more than entitled to be interpreted innocent.
My idea is for a Sanford Memorial Stadium Presentation that justly honors the worthy ambition of trying to set things right, as they say. An art gallery extravaganza as sophisticated as they come, I claim. I write. Such that the art's already conceived to mean the public's reflection. If this work just remains obscure, misunderstood and under-appreciated, or even disliked. Ta da.
But my proposal is for those pages, 153 - 156, read in the Sanford stadium, to function as a better bookend to Sanford History than what the dysfunctional Zimmerman boy's disaster regurgitated up. Disregarding a police order not to pursue and end up killing an innocent, unarmed, teenager, bookends the portion of Sanford lore that was a baseball game on that site, then named, Sanford Field. Where baseball legend Jackie Robinson was so derisively derided he couldn't complete the run to first base. Obviously, legacy's everything.
Jackie Robinson. Plus someone who confessed their, being there, regret to me. Everyone deserves this idea's being made into a polished production. Though I'd, just as soon, comfortably read anywhere outside the fence if that expression carried more positive cultural weight. Curiously wondering where the paint would run on that stroke? All part of the American masterpiece.
Because I'm aspiring to something more, and different, than just tagging Roy Cohn's tombstone as currently shown in The Hour Hammer and Cycle Messenger Service and broadcast on 8 Ball Television. The Sanford reading as a (and Hyde Park, London) commercial broadcast production is per a Florida College TV station's informal request.
The reading will be from pitcher's mound, facing the first baseline where Jackie Robinson couldn't run out to first and left the game. The last time he stood down. (Deland cancelled.) But not the last time prejudice seeped from a cracked façade.
My mother raised me not to sit on my laurels. So having accomplished my goal of speaking in The Great Hall of Cooper Union, as Abraham Lincoln had on his way to the White House, I'm relieved to have at least thought of a follow up. The show, thus far, is this op-ed and funding page:
Charles M. Fraser is a novelist and Soapbox View politicalsatirist.
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So white people in general didn't associate with the "reading apology" the first go round. As Wikipedia states of Sanford citizens, when their mayor publicly apologized, they either don't/didn't believe what happened to Robinson, did, or they don't appreciate that the stigma requires a resounding washing out. Whitewashing our lives is unfortunately where a lot of people place pride.
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Ethiopian Free Speech Imprisoned
Ethiopia curtails criticism in the name of internal security. The free ride from historical judgement the world's helplessly ruthless leadership expects as their due, i.e. etc., etc., etc. Power's conceit.
Here again, or just still, as an American president is defending the "our history" slant as well. Blatantly denying the self-absorbed justification involved. Stepped up a notch. Using "we" for him and "his" team. Cult of Personality sideshow. Politics modeled after a jousting tournament, reduced to Middle Age. And patriotic shield is the throne the mentor was crowned with. The term is the country's still being played. Nice touch, adherents worked up to adulatory levels of idolatry? Political Science, at the core, for exploitation not exposition. Operatives aren't even directly paid anymore. Networked's appeal. A dream of socialism for the rich that's denied the poor while, at least, a partially contrived façade about how welfare money, that trickles right up anyway, is the flaw, while our benefits of the socialistic bent helped preserve this president's fortune. Three Card Monty is the closest game analogy for how we're still being played by how the political cards are dealt. Not the law, but culture.
History is, of course, broader than how any political buffoonery can be portrayed.
Expand The Superficial Consciousness
So does the president stand for nothing more than remaining in the dark ages of belief? He's worn God on his shoulder as if the Creator's role were merely just back-up to whatever quackery supports a team's solid bottom line. Where we've landed, now in time, as an era, the late teens of the 21ST Century, is where we've always been. Maybe it seems America was founded on the belief there's just an us. But America was still built on an expanding consciousness forged by intellectual ambition.
Didn't know he'd win, when he'd already won? Forging a mantle of arrogance melded with the aloofness of our presidency? A loss on his part would have still left him in the game. Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley/Our president and the birther issue, etc. Watch. He's least able to go into the lame duck night. Precedence's mount.
Dear Mr. President,
This is a personal invitation, requesting your contribution to my Sanford apology film described above. Not "our history" as contended? But history's really how everyone contrives it. Petty jealousy's in the White House and the call for a grasp of maturity is outside? Does somewhat appear so. Fake fact or not, there's reality for conjecture.
Anyway. Here. Have a look, Mr. President. This'll add some perspective on your legacy's destiny. Being ashamed of pure performance, is nothing compared to disappointment in cultural blinders.
Seeing patriotism spectacularly dressed to distraction, and flaunted, and repeated, repetitiously, has created an overall numbness. Despite the noise.
People aren't just endeavoring to emblazon this culture with shame, as has been defensively portrayed by the "not the liberal media" media. There's a stench to the cluelessness of being fed up with liberals. People may as well as one chorus, loudly sing,
As if all understanding required were labels. If, at least, that surface reality were understood, then more about the president's background personality might have been acknowledged culture-wide. Ah, tomorrow. American History is more than what's labelled "ours." Watch the cited film, above the Pope cartoon. As I've written to President Putin. You guys have to get dis-entwined from some cultural flaws. Sooner the better, however legacy's are contrived.
And finally how curious are you about 3D Printing? Phenomenal to watch what only a short time ago was just imagination.
