Deserts. Food deserts. Concrete deserts. The Ayn Rand utopian paradise of contrived urban communities supported by industrial outlet box stores which we see proliferating today is unsustainable. The Walmart model has proven that box stores leave behind concrete deserts of wasted land, human labor, community unity, and public resources, all for the private profit of a few. Driving supply chain, food, fuel, clothing, shelter, items into narrower and more restrictive environments, both excluding the very poor and catering to the very rich. Food deserts which cripple health. Health deserts which kill the poor. Shelter, clothing, fuel deserts which eliminate the middle classes. On scale nationwide erasing populations that once were forced to intermingle and learn to co-operated to survive, this devastating apartheid is crumbling the foundation of American societal structure for the profit of a few at the cost of the inevitable destruction of the many.
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Elvis Costello Peace,Love,Understanding Harris Walz YouTube Cut
Music, Lyrics, and Images to bring a little Peace Love and Understanding on this day of remembrance.
A note to Gary Farmer; The 'Wanderer' , the moon, is rising again. It's harvest time coming on. And the great circle again flies towards the deep and dark night. I look for even a single snow flake this year, for hope. Peace that comes down from the clouds, dark and grey. To land white and bright all around. No sound. Listen. Silent.
Inter-active Theater: And a lesson in Action, and Acceptance. Setting; a movie-house. A dramatic movie plays. For instance "Eric" where a young 9 year old boy goes missing. The entire movie hangs upon the suspense of the whereabouts of the missing boy and the history and motives of the people surrounding him. Netfilx or popular approach the audience is held in to the end awaiting the happy ending, the boy is found, the players are resolved. The 'dark' approach the ending is less than happy, Tragic, and the audience is made to feel guilty for the ugly world they witness. The Inter-active approach: while the movie plays; Actors enter the theater as patrons and enter in disturbing dialogue, parallel to what players in the movie are portraying. i.e. Parents of missing boy argue, Actors as a couple argue and disturb the performance. The missing boy is revealed as a run-away, but is being held against his will. A child actor enters the theater and disturbs the patron
About Ukraine President Zelensky and 'Neo-Nazi' labels. The premise Zelensky is 'neo-Nazi' suggests a basic conflict in that a Jewish man can both be an anti-Semite and a jew. Either 'neo-nazi' is not what the label implies or a man who's family suffered in the Holocost can betray his own roots. This conflict appears again in the actions of President Netanyahu in his almost Nazi emulating ultra-nationalist, superior peoples', near genocidal pursuit of the Palestinian people in Gaza. The conflict of 'good' is 'evil' and 'evil' is 'good' is spoken in Revelations of John. The Jewish people are IMHO in a dilemma of Spirit and Identity as Caliphas was at the crucifixion of Jesus. Either Jesus was a blasphemer and guilty of profaning God, justifying Caliphas a righteous man. OR Jesus was the Son of God and Caliphas identity as living under God was on false base and his belief system in collapse. As Christians' many of
Israeli knesset has voted to never grant Palestinian independence or peace or land. Claiming rights over all of Gaza and the West Bank. In this extremist light the solution I see to secure Middle East peace for ourselves and avoid Armageddon as Arab nations unite to fight Israel drawing US into a conflict we supply with troops is: Withdraw all the remaining Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza to the United States. Establish them on a path to citizenship. Provide housing and health temporarily ( clossed military bases could be used). Provide paths for loans to establish businesses. Levy Israel a tribute to pay for 1. their newly acquired land at ours and the world's expense for never peacefully establishing their State in 1946 but taking it by force over the objections of all the WWII nations. 2. the cost of resettling the Palestinian people in the U.S.. The US taking this action keeps the Palestinians as a people vs a complete dispersion. Which is the Israeli obj