Good article Bob. Your points about reality are quite cogent. For an even deeper inquiry I suggest Peter Kingsley's book titled Reality. And if you are not familiar with Charles Eisenstein, here's a clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5SFzYaDW8
I sit in my recliner as well, and I remember the 80's. It's hard to forget the LAPD back then. For no reason, I was public enemy number one. All I needed was a baseball cap, a white t-shirt, and blue jeans.
The backpack with a calculus book didn't matter.
Social media put acts like this in all of our backyards. The tricky question is: is it or was it any different?
You raise an important point that warrants very serious thinking and discussion. There are too many similarities between current events and past events. One difference that appears to me is that this is the first time I can remember when executing cruelty overtly has been the policy of the Federal government. It seems that in the past, cruelty was a tactic. Now it appears to be the point.
FWIW:
The United Nations General Assembly condemned terrorist acts by using the following political description of terrorism in December 1994 (GA Res. 49/60):[11]
Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.
Good article Bob. Your points about reality are quite cogent. For an even deeper inquiry I suggest Peter Kingsley's book titled Reality. And if you are not familiar with Charles Eisenstein, here's a clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5SFzYaDW8
I'll read Kingsley's book. Thank you for leaving a comment, Julia.
Are you familiar with Charles Eisenstein? I view him as one of the deepest and broadest thinkers putting stuff out there on a regular basis today.
Powerful piece. Well constructed.
I sit in my recliner as well, and I remember the 80's. It's hard to forget the LAPD back then. For no reason, I was public enemy number one. All I needed was a baseball cap, a white t-shirt, and blue jeans.
The backpack with a calculus book didn't matter.
Social media put acts like this in all of our backyards. The tricky question is: is it or was it any different?
You raise an important point that warrants very serious thinking and discussion. There are too many similarities between current events and past events. One difference that appears to me is that this is the first time I can remember when executing cruelty overtly has been the policy of the Federal government. It seems that in the past, cruelty was a tactic. Now it appears to be the point.
FWIW:
The United Nations General Assembly condemned terrorist acts by using the following political description of terrorism in December 1994 (GA Res. 49/60):[11]
Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism