Tuesday, July 17, 2012


'Who's Very Important?'  NY Times  Krugman nails it again.

The sickness of egotism, the self important in a frenzy to elect a tax cheat as President...  What says, 'I don't give a crap,' any better?  Ahh, but he was a winning smile.

Add to this "The Rush to Abandon the Poor," 17 July Editorial in the NY Times.  Ever since Reagan, politicians (hard core Republican) have decided not to help people, not do the right thing by them, hurt them when they are vulnerable.  Which has moved the other side, Democrats and whoever else on up the liberal spectrum into higher thought, into their own self-created black hole (where money is sucked out of the general normal honest work life and into the hands of the .01 percent), pulled away from their own basic idea of service to humanity at a good price through enlightened thinking and generosity and poetic thinking, so that they also have to deal with rich stuffed pro-deregulators, slowly losing their own high ground.  Ever since Reagan, Republicans have become obstructionist, not just in the race of the election campaign, but in everything they touch (except of course for one thing, though I can't say what that is exactly, as I am not as well tuned to the center of their dark atomic gravity.)  It has become their knee jerk reaction, and they like to be good at it.  NOTE:  There are good Republicans, who don't fall into this, I would imagine.




The ego was a later development long after humanity was up and running.  The results of this have been a bit mixed, taking everything into consideration.  Sure, it's done some good, somewhere, this invention of the implanted ego.

Earlier, there was awareness, there was consciousness.  And this helped people not get too worried about going out and hunting and food gathering.  (News, such as we know it, wasn't necessary.)  People generally found themselves far less confused and more in a natural state about how to go about living.  Relationships were egoless, but for a few instinctive basics.

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