SPECIAL ISSUE #44 🐲
It is without the slightest shame or conscience that the leaders of the world want to lead us to believe that we are absolutely stupid. Perhaps they are speculating on the stupidity and ignorance of the people and the forgetfulness of many in the face of media overload and overstimulation and everything that is happening in the world. But let’s face it, if you are not a complete nitwit you must be aware of the unbelievable hypocrisy of those who enforced and defended the COVID measures and restrictions in their own countries as well as doing their best to threaten their own people into submission.
I find it flabbergasting how vehemently these politicians now dare to condemn the strict COVID measures in the one-party state of China and praise the courage of the demonstrations taking place there.
I am usually not one to quote from the Bible but I will make an exception here:
"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.“
Have our politicians forgotten that they themselves have insulted our demonstrators as COVID-denying idiots, misguided, or right-wing extremists, and even used water cannons as well as brutal force against them? Apparently, when two people do the same thing, it is still not the same for our representatives.
“Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.” — James Dobson
A lot of the trust once instilled in our leaders has been broken and gambled away in recent years by making claims that were not investigated at all and are now disproved. It is disgraceful how easily politicians, like flags in the wind, today claim exactly the opposite of what they said yesterday with fervent conviction and without a semblance of an apology. I am simply disgusted and it makes me angry when they try to take us for fools. It also makes me infinitely sad how many fall for it or are just too comfortable to speak up. What else has to happen, how many freedoms have to disappear before even the last one realises what is being played here?
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” — Albert Einstein
I know that my views are not always welcome and again I emphasise that these are my very personal views that no one has to share. However, as always, I am happy to lead a respectful discussion with anyone who wishes to do so.
🎶My Song of the Day
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📚My Poem of the Day
Is a very fitting one by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
A Political Apostate
Good friend, it is with deep regret I note The latest, strangest turning of your coat; Though any way you wear that mental clout The seamy side seems always to be out. Who could have thought that you would e'er sustain The Southern shotgun's arbitrary reign! Your sturdy hand assisting to replace The broken yoke on a delivered race; The ballot's purity no more your care, With equal privilege to dark and fair. To Yesterday a traitor, to To-day You're constant but the better to betray To-morrow. Your convictions all are naught But the wild asses of the world of thought, Which, flying mindless o'er the barren plain, Perceive at last they've nothing so to gain, And, turning penitent upon their track, Economize their strength by flying back. Ex-champion of Freedom, battle-lunged, No more, red-handed, or at least red-tongued, Brandish the javelin which by others thrown Clove Sambo's heart to quiver in your own! Confess no more that when his blood was shed, And you so sympathetically bled, The bow that spanned the mutual cascade Was but the promise of a roaring trade In offices. Your fingering now the trigger Shows that you _knew_ your Negro was a nigger! _Ad hominem_ this _argumentum_ runs: Peace!-let us fire another kind of guns. I grant you, friend, that it is very true The Blacks are ignorant-and sable, too. What then? One way of two a fool must vote, And either way with gentlemen of note Whose villain feuds the fact attest too well That pedagogues nor vice nor error quell. The fiercest controversies ever rage When Miltons and Salmasii engage. No project wide attention ever drew But it disparted all the learned crew. As through their group the cleaving line's prolonged With fiery combatants each field is thronged. In battle-royal they engage at once For guidance of the hesitating dunce. The Titans on the heights contend full soon On this side Webster and on that Calhoun, The monstrous conflagration of their fight Startling the day and splendoring the night! Both are unconquerable-_one_ is right. Will't keep the pigmy, if we make him strong, From siding with a giant in the wrong? When Genius strikes for error, who's afraid To arm poor Folly with a wooden blade? O Rabelais, you knew it all!-your good And honest judge (by men misunderstood) Knew to be right there was but one device Less fallible than ignorance-the dice. The time must come-Heaven expedite the day! When all mankind shall their decrees obey, And nations prosper in their peaceful sway.
👀Impressions
Winter is coming…
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Tanja 🤗