A Tide In The Affairs Of Men
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March 19, 2019 at 1:18 pm #46095
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterLeonardo da Vinci First anatomical studies c1515 Sometimes we find ourselves merely pondering, not so much solving big problems. Is ther
[See the full post at: A Tide In The Affairs Of Men]March 19, 2019 at 1:44 pm #46097Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterNot to take anything away from the content, but looking at Da Vinci’s anatomical drawings you can’t help but see his artistic ability and prowess, and then on top of that realize he was the first person ever to even attempt to do this, spending very, very long hours in a damp and dark morgue cutting up corpses peeling off layer after layer of muscle and tissue. Talk about drive and energy.
I sometimes wonder what anatomy would have been without him. What is someone much less talented artistically had had that drive to ‘chart’ the inside of the human body?
March 19, 2019 at 3:45 pm #46099zerosum
Participant“My job is to weather it as I can and wait for better springs to come, which they will, but decades from now.”
Amen.
I’ll be returned to dust before a better spring is here.
March 19, 2019 at 4:18 pm #46100Wxtwxtr
Participant“… and followed through just as thoughtlessly by the mob …”
I would guess you’re talking about me and my precariat peasant friends, but I see no sign of that in (our) daily lives. CHS’s article of today shows who is doing what to whom, and I suspect and suggest that “mob” you are talking about is these guys.
The chattering classes chattering at each other for money, influence and power, and by the way, “making history”. Self granted prestige, via:
“… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”Part of today’s online irony is that all the wailing of sorrow and screams of rage and gnashing of teeth and schemes to profit are not worth the paper they’re not printed on. They will vanish like autumn leaves swirling away in the winds of the Turning or the flash of a Carrington.
March 19, 2019 at 4:20 pm #46101kultsommer
ParticipantDr, when not counting baby boomer homes and spill J. Peterson-ques fear of Mao and Stalin, has quite a bit to offer on the writing table.
Aaaah….Leonardo’s drawings and equally detailed drawings in any book of human anatomy, Durer’s here in Albertina gallery and exceptionally detailed animal in zoological books, beautifully rendered wet lips, teary eyes, light reflection on wrist watch and belt buckle on soft cover books and paintings with similar “themes” find in art museums. Aesthetic has a lot of “splaining” to do, which it can’t.March 19, 2019 at 4:21 pm #46102Doc Robinson
ParticipantShare of population with mental health and substance use disorders, 2016
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-with-mental-and-substance-disorders
The slider at the bottom of the graph shows how Russia has made significant improvements in recent years, but USA, Australia and New Zealand remain among the worst.
March 19, 2019 at 4:52 pm #46103zerosum
Participant@Doc
+1 in 5 or 20% of the countries ruling the world might be led by people with mental health and substance use disorders,The remaining 80% of the populations are mentaly chalenged since they cannot see this obvious link..
March 19, 2019 at 6:17 pm #46107seychelles
Participant“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
– Julius Caesar Act 4 Scene 3Rothschild as the reincarnation of J. C. (and this does not stand for Jesus Christ).
The noble idea, which allegedly makes us not just another animal, is to exist to help yourself AND other life to create an harmonious whole, not to “capitalize” on the misfortune of others to achieve wealth and power without helpful productive sweat.
March 19, 2019 at 8:56 pm #46109barnaby33
ParticipantWhat do you mean, “our values?”
March 19, 2019 at 10:04 pm #46110zerosum
ParticipantWhere are the lists of the people who have enough money to lend for the following.
IF YOU CANNOT SUPPLY A LIST THEN ASSUME THE POSITION OVER THE PRINTING PRESS.
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/budget-fy2019
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2019https://www.cp24.com/news/highlights-from-2019-federal-budget-1.4342893
OTTAWA – Highlights from the federal Liberal budget tabled Tuesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau:March 19, 2019 at 10:12 pm #46111zerosum
ParticipantWe are not mentally challenged, we are just ignorant.
Who are the lenders for deficit spending?If we cannot supply a list of lenders, then we must assume the position over the printing press.
OTTAWA – Highlights from the federal Liberal budget tabled Tuesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau:
https://www.cp24.com/news/highlights-from-2019-federal-budget-1.4342893Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2019
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/budget-fy2019March 19, 2019 at 10:12 pm #46112John Day
ParticipantIn my post “Repression Justified” I signed off “Gardening While Rome Burns”. There’s a picture of some of my recent work preparing the vegetable garden beds for planting at the “country place”. http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/03/repression-justified.html
March 20, 2019 at 2:18 am #46114Haydar Khan
ParticipantMarch 20, 2019 at 3:30 am #46115Patricia
ParticipantWell Dr. D that is a very interesting hypothesis and it does make sense.
March 20, 2019 at 4:02 am #46116V. Arnold
ParticipantHowever, if we can see that all of us are in the same dilemma, we are all ill-at-ease, and it’s not the other guy, it’s ourselves too that is short tempered, short-sighted, jumping to conclusions — in a word: short — then we can go through the day and this time better, and address it better, redress it better, and make more accurate, more practical and productive responses than if we didn’t know where our new trouble and new agitation is coming from.
Dr Dand this;
Because history shows these things happen, and we’re in it now and it’s clearly happening to us. Perceiving all this years ago, I took myself to a humble place and planted trees, as the Stoics at the fall of Rome retreated to walled gardens and enjoyed what life they could, and although it’s a hard life and everyone’s answer is different, these things pass and all men have troubles and die even in the best of times.
Nice. Definitely resonates with me. As you know, I too, took myself out and away from the “madding crowds”.
It’s helped immensely; and the work continues unto death…March 20, 2019 at 6:09 am #46117V. Arnold
ParticipantJust tripped across this at Russia Insider, in an article by John W. Whitehead :
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture…
Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away…”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet
From Wiki:
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
He’s 99 yo…100 in 4 days…March 20, 2019 at 11:34 am #46124Dr. D
ParticipantKultsommer, thank you, that’s very kind.
You can see I have wide frustrations over people not being able to see they’re being played for fools, one against the other. Jimmy Dore was lamenting this with Syrian, Gaza, and now Venezuelan war reporter Eva Bartlett, that they go out and say the U.S. is pushing false propaganda to invade nations and the people say, “Oh no, that was true in Vietnam, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria, true every day for the past 50 years, but it CAN’T be true this time! This time our great leaders are honest!” *Sigh* Are you kidding me??? Ok Charlie Brown, go ahead and kick that football of 6 million non-American head plus +10,000 U.S. soldiers who’ve been hurt and $2 Trillion wasted, one more time.
At some point you run out of things to say, but when I was young, old cranks told me this about the wars and leaders of my own time and I didn’t catch on real fast either.
March 20, 2019 at 11:39 am #46125Dr. D
Participant“Our values”? Our theoretical Western values, i.e. the ideas of the Enlightenment: freedom, justice, equality, liberty, speech, self-action, self-defense. All fall short, as they say, but the idea in the west is that we at least TRY. I THINK that’s something we still share in common, however thinly now, and what still attracts immigrants to our lands.
But you probably knew that: good point.
March 20, 2019 at 12:06 pm #46126Dr. D
ParticipantAs far as I can tell, there’s a SERIOUS overall effect of +30% of the people taking happy pills, officially. Many more happy-pill themselves. In stock buys, in corporate meetings, they face the most serious problems, formidable tasks, and then say “la-de-da.” When it fails, when their planes fall from the sky, when their banks crash and are indicted, they’re not alarmed or ashamed, but feel as good as ever, about themselves, about their judgment, about the world. How else does the 20-year old F-35 [not] get made vs now 4 generations of MIG’s? And the generals, the Congressmen, the people, not alarmed. Starting an arms race in Europe and space, not alarmed at attempting a first strike nuclear exchange against an opponent with overwhelming superiority. Nope.
On the ground, these people should be stopping the emptiness, the shopping malls, the Fiasco of Suburbia, the “Geography of Nowhere” that’s killing them; quitting, changing jobs, changing wives, changing lives, but they don’t because they’re too drugged on 10 levels of pharmacopoeia legal and illegal to reach a crisis point and break the status quo. …Just as Huxley outlined in “Brave New World” with “Soma.” What are the other elements he suggested to have an entirely passive, controlled, zombie populous? Endless entertainment, free sex, open porn, lack of any human boundaries, an ignorant, child-like populous, media panoply to control all information, “total incoherence” of facts, and everything else we’ve seen those self-same people work for in the 88 years since he published it.
So I wish the SSIDs were the only problem, but the mentally ill have systematically and intentionally broken everything here in their mentally ill quest for a total dictatorial control that doesn’t do them any good.
“I think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives… I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal means. … I think they’re all insane. But I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” —John Lennon (1968)
“You gotta remember, ‘establishment,’ it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.” —John Lennon (1969)
So what’s the answer?
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
But they haven’t and won’t. As you and Jimmy Dore say, the people still don’t make the connection. So who’s the real problem? Them, or us? If we were moral, could they stand? Would these things work? Con artists know for a con to work, the mark has to be complicit. Think about that, because I do every day.
March 20, 2019 at 5:14 pm #46139JCsamsara
ParticipantNice post. Very accurate from my personal perspective. After 10-15 years, I no longer rail against the ignorance. I found that I was just Ignored, and I didn’t care for Ignor-ance. So, like the author I am planting trees in our own garden. Reaching those who are ready to be reached. Doing things to shield my family and friends as best as I can.
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