Hi Ray,
How ya been? Lotta people got their knickers in a twist over this election. Ya can't hardly get nobody to talk stocks on SI anymore. Heck, even Vendit's here, I see! Hey Reid, how's the stochastics of the recount lookin' ??? Are we overbought or oversold??? [jes' kiddin', my friend]
I enjoyed your Butler speech excerpt. My only question: was he assassinated before he finished his speech, or after ? Or did they just ruin him in more subtle but effective ways......... Whatever, I bet he could tell some stories about the aftermath that would.......uh.......curl the toes of any schoolboy, though I suspect not you or I <ggg>.
As for Bushwacked vs. Bore, the significance and ramifications of the outcome pales in comparison with the things Butler spoke about. The major question there is who will carry on the tradition, and what rhetoric and specific tactics will they employ as a smokescreen, effectively fooling you, me, and themselves probably. I'm just beside myself, on the edge of my seat waiting to find out..........
Because the things Butler so devastatingly indicts are not history, per se IMHO. But, as was pointed out, I would submit that these things occur not because there are guys in white hats and guys in black hats, but because of the human nature and unconscious and largely personally unresolvable tensions within ourselves. And yes, though there are some common threads vis-a-vis the attempt to dominate, and greed, and so forth, still the bases are multifactorial and the precise origins rather elusive, but derived from myriad sources.
Heck, if we elected Jesus Christ and the 12 apostles, I doubt if a single fundamental thing would change appreciably. Other than possibly the repeal of the constitutional directive regarding separation of church and state, and a new and improved rhetoric and tactic, but no less brutal and dishonest. But maybe that's why Jesus ran off into the desert when they tried to make him king, and instead said "If you would be a king, serve your fellow man." (I'm paraphrasing, of course)
Lord Acton had it spot on: "Power tends to corrupt........"
And so do electrons, who will do anything (even work, much to our benefit!) to dissipate their own power, and always resist sequestration of their own power. I think it no coincidence that this force is arguably the principal driving force of the universe (i.e., entropy), and the supreme irony of human affairs is that we ceaselessly toil to accomplish just the opposite! And to our dismay, pay the price........ What a marvelously profound cosmic tension there! And we can't even get out of the game (3rd Law of Thermodynamics)!
Ya just gotta love it.............
Anyhoo, glad to see you're alive and hopefully well.
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