No repressive
government can
last forever, no
matter how
unlikely its end
can seem. But
it does great
damage to people
and land while
it continues
Category: politics
Losing their marbles
Heaven save me from
celebrities who seem
quite sane and
rational when young
but who in old age
become religious and
move hard right
politically and seem to
be mulling over joining
the Flat Earth Society
Numbers racket
How many stupid
and ignorant people
does it take to
destroy a planet?
I guess we’ll find
out pretty soon.
Hand on head instead?
What is it with
Americans putting
their hand on their
heart at solemn
occasions like the
funeral of an
ex-president?
They do know,
I suppose, that the
heart is just a lump
of muscle that
circulates blood?
I mean, we have known
for five hundred years
that the heart has
nothing to do with
emotions, so why
put your hand over it?
Of the people
Once upon a time
to be a politician
was to be the essence
of the polis, the people,
of being a human being.
In these times it seems
to be a politician is
to be ahuman, distant
from the polis,
removed from humanity,
removed so far indeed
as to be inhuman.
Disappointment
How sad it is when
we discover that a
writer, an artist, an
actor, a musician,
whom we have admired
and enjoyed,
believes in an
imaginary friend.
Valediction
I have never
had, in a long life
of creating ideas,
and things, a serious
review of any of it. No
serious consideration
of what was attempted,
what were the problems,
what was achieved.
But then you don’t get that
for your life itself
I suppose,
I am ignorant and I vote
Sad that there are now
so many people who
take pride in their
ignorance, where once
it was a mark of a
human being to
take pride in
knowledge,
intelligence,
and
achievement.
No secret
The secret of success
is rich ancestors,
relatives in positions
of power, and a friend
who is a media baron
Naming names
Chamberlain
Caligula
Bush
Petain
Mugabe
Charles I
Nixon
Yeltsin
Hindenburg
Nicholas II
Abbott
George III
Akhenaten
Hirohito
Louis XVI
Pol Pot
Trump
