" As a kind of remedy to this, and possibly as a kind of therapy, I started collecting news that reminded me, ‘Hey, there’s actually some positive stuff going on! I will share thoughts, images and audio relating to this initiative and I’ll welcome contributions from others.”
Mindless cheerfulness and obtuse optimism are all too human traits . Just the other night I read one essay on the Holocaust classic " The Diary of Anne Frank " . The writer, a Jewish intellectual , reflects on the popularity of the play .
It was Ann's pitiful but touching comment that most people were " good at heart " that obscured the bleak truth of her fate, of the Holocaust , indeed of the horror of World War II . The writer argued that this failure to recognize black reaction - and to ACT - might have prevented the Holocaust.
There is presently a dark cloud of fascism over the United States. The American " death culture " as we called it in the 60s is back . Sometimes THEY ( now neo-Nazi form ) come back.
We see it today in the USA . Too many highly vulnerable working class people are still whistling in the dark , retreating to the pseudo-normalcy of family life . Is ANY Hollywood movie connected to reality ? Do some 200 cable TV channels pacify you ?
What programs convince you that most people are really good at heart ? Like the people who rule America ?
A refrain from the famous Poe story : " But outside was the Red Death ".
THEY are not NICE PEOPLE - our ruling class. Rather than lose privilege they would prefer a NUCLEAR holocaust.
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