Kettling Up Democracy

In America, the talk of the new austerity, in the aftermath of the economic meltdown of 2008, is still largely abstract, but some tipping points are presumably coming with the new Congress in 2011, when we may see an unprecedented level of cuts in social spending, and if Europe is any example of what is to come, with its riots and harsh police repression, politics promises to be a much darker, malignant subject. I tend to be a bit paranoiac in my feelings and rather extravagant in my turn of thought and my phrasing, but it can feel like an iron curtain is closing down on us, as though the rich elite have had about enough of our silly democracy. Funny, I often wish I could have back another ten or twenty years, but when it comes to our political and environmental outlook, I can think that it might not be such a bad thing not to be so young, after all.

( Police Violence Against Children )

Kettling Up Democracy

In America, the talk of the new austerity, in the aftermath of the economic meltdown of 2008, is still largely abstract, but some tipping points are presumably coming with the new Congress in 2011, when we may see an unprecedented level of cuts in social spending, and if Europe is any example of what is to come, with its riots and harsh police repression, politics promises to be a much darker, malignant subject. I tend to be a bit paranoiac in my feelings and rather extravagant in my turn of thought and my phrasing, but it can feel like an iron curtain is closing down on us, as though the rich elite have had about enough of our silly democracy. Funny, I often wish I could have back another ten or twenty years, but when it comes to our political and environmental outlook, I can think that it might not be such a bad thing not to be so young, after all.

( Police Violence Against Children )

Reading Life

“Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I’m in a coma:
Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;
Love’s as good as soma.”

-- “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

That cute little song comes near the end; so, I’m running out of book. And my special, special Christmas present is probably still a good week away from being delivered. But I have a plan.

Ever since I first got and read Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” about six years ago, I meant to make rereading it a Christmas tradition, but it never worked out, as I always seemed to be wrapped up in another book, and then the Christmas season is past. Well, I should be able to get around to it this year! It will buy me another few days.

Reading Life

“Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I’m in a coma:
Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;
Love’s as good as soma.”

-- “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

That cute little song comes near the end; so, I’m running out of book. And my special, special Christmas present is probably still a good week away from being delivered. But I have a plan.

Ever since I first got and read Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” about six years ago, I meant to make rereading it a Christmas tradition, but it never worked out, as I always seemed to be wrapped up in another book, and then the Christmas season is past. Well, I should be able to get around to it this year! It will buy me another few days.