(0434) Not one, folks, but two “longs” this morning, within one post to test your patience … but necessary all the same. (0630)
3. Similar theme on leftist “maturity”
2. From TDS this morning (navbar, then middle column)
David Betz and Michael Rainsborough confronting the acts of violence and the glee:
It was less a headline than a rhetorical diagnosis, reflecting the bewilderment at these seemingly senseless acts of terror. Was it the bourgeois world condemned as corrupt by these self-styled revolutionaries, or was it the revolutionaries themselves, who in their righteous fervour appeared possessed by demons?
The question was never one that admitted an easy answer in that moment, and it remains just as piercing in ours. For when, half a century later, Charlie Kirk was struck down in the midst of civic debate, and when voices on the ‘progressive’ Left respond not with horror but with unholy glee, we are forced once again to confront the same ambiguity.
The young in particular, in their newfound independence, see societal obstacles their teachers and professors, sometimes their parents, have in turn been given easy targets to blame … so easy to blame “stick in the mud oldies”, “far right values” spewers … if I find that girlchild on X again ranting on, I’ll run it here.
We always blamed govt and rightly too … not seeing that they themselves were in thrall … and whom to … which is a far trickier proposition to dig out and neutralise. Takes some political maturity. A kid of 11/12? Come on. And as they continue, retarded, with the hand me down narrative devised from afar, it’s too easy not to think for oneself, to be all gung ho and Patty Hearst, urban guerilla.
Two springing to mind are the 60s band Amon Duul II who had some nice tunes, let it be said, creative. Renata from the band recalls the night Baader Meinhof came to hide out from “the authorities” and the lack of any consideration from any of them got on Renata’s (lead singer’s) goat.
She ordered them out when Baader climbed in to sleep with her … good leftist, all for the cause, ra ra ra … when the young see that little ole they can mess up The Man … well you know that sort of thing, having been young. All very important and exciting, the Cause.
Not the slightest consideration for anyone else … after all, they’re retarded kids.
Second was Ayres and the Weathermen, taken from Dylan’s song. Violence was what was needed, said they, straight from Trotsky’s rulebook, Georges Sorel etc. I used to live with such people, thankfully too comfortable and lazy to do anything … right little Rik Mayalls they were.
1. Of word salads and health
a. Word salads
I’ve been corresponding with various far flung gentlemen and ladies and along the way, various things come through, mainly word salads and health updates.
Looking first at word salads, we really are using an unnatural medium. For eyesight reasons and podgy male fingers, I can’t use a phone pad well, never learnt (learned) how to, plus I’m noticing that the apple keyboard I use for PC and laptop … I can’t see well that far, p,us the kets seem smaller these days.
The large keys on the ipad are about right but even there, there are errors all the time, which I just “discussed” with one of my (not named) correspondents and said I was going to use that bit of text in here now. Here tis:
First the word salad … haal weird was written “health weird” but I’m finding when I type fast, it only picks up some, not all of the letters. I’m thinking that so many spellings we wrote correctly but they come out misspelled.
On top of this, there’s something about letters either end of the keyboard, how hard they’re pressed. Why do we type fast? Mental affectation, the thought that we always have to be rushing to “get it all done”. Modern life maybe.
First responsibility though must be us ourselves … well ok, me myself. I am misspelling words but not those with a, s, e, i and u … they’re end of the yeyboard errors where I press too lightly or don’t stretch enough. So, having taken at least some responsibility, it still is very much the technica as well, plus the keyboard is certainly playing up, not offering panels it should etc. Almost as if the ipads are getting older, like us.
b. Health
There are two aspects … first that I should not be telling openly here about other chaps’ and chapesses’ health developments but you can be sure there are some … and I do ask. I just saw Steve mention the situation there, plus the other chaps last evening … one friend now almost 90 (not DAD, his is a technica issue right now, so expect a short hiatus there, plus AKH has two issues this week).
As for me, yes, I’m sure it was an attack, as Woodsy mentioned (ta also Andy, Penseivat … Penny? … IYE, plus the gals by email, inc. from Russia). Read Woodsy’s account … that is certainly how it was. At some point today, I’ll put some more texts up at UHC-WP.
One of our chaps has some real issues, was writing from hospital … we just never really know what others are going through, don’t you find? And if you keep a network going as I in my position automatically must … it’s not that we don’t care, we do, we have our issues too, nor my cavalier, even eccentric nature … it’s that we ge overwhelmed by it all.
Plus it’s not helped by these horrible people out there doing horrible things. Next post item is going to be from today’s TDS and he’s not wrong.