As awful and horrendous as are such attention-getting outrages as the immigration ban, banning a Senator from debate or threatening a department store chain, they are also classic misdirection. They dominate the Zeitgeist, mixing outrage with entertainment, generating anger and fundraising. Meanwhile a lot of evil underway escapes attention. An historically peculiar corporate fascism, an attempted totalitarian state, in a frenzy.
Alternet/by way of Salon: Trump’s tweets are a sideshow: His executive orders are building a corporate state...
On Having Turned 80
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It seemed odd, even to me, that after posts (or, let's face it, essays) on
major and not so major birthdays for the past 20 years, I let turning 80 go ...
2 weeks ago
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