“I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn’t want to hear,” Gentries said. “But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of ‘other’ to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities.”
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool. It gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.” — Ursula K. LeGuin
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“big government should not stand between a man and his money”
i mean, “what’s good for business is good for the country”
our children still take that lie like communion,
the same old line the Confederacy used on the Union
The article written by someone who’s undoubtably a baby boomer.
And here’s the correct response:
Perhaps if the baby boomers didn’t rig the financial system in their favor, inflate housing prices, crash the dollar, grant themselves unfunded medicare and social security benefits for their vastly extended lifespan, increase college and healthcare costs 20-40%/yr, start two hugely expensive and mostly pointless wars, burn half the world’s oil, scalp the science/tech sectors that their parents built for WWII and the space race, replacing them with finance/real estate ponzi schemes to extend an empty consumer lifestyle, and then outsource virtually everything except for senior executive and immigrant service jobs, their kids could start their own lives?
This is why the American Dream is out of reach
“Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed” — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
“Goodnight, lover; wherever you are.”