Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber:

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.” ~ Albert Camus

(https://twitter.com/holdengraber/status/1245369765482205185)

Kim Dorman - @mkimdorman (Twitter): A something overtakes the mind -- we do not hear it coming

-Emily Dickinson

YOON - @nicoscosc (Twitter): "I need a friend. I need the closeness of a kindred spirit. I long for some outside affirmation of the inner world whose existence I postulate."

― Bruno Schulz, in a letter to Tadeusz Breza in 1934

From Bob Dylan (16 minute in length),

"Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and
loyalty across the years. This is an unreleased song we recorded a while
back that you might find interesting.

"Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you.
Bob Dylan"

<https://youtu.be/3NbQkyvbw18>

/ht Twitter: Rhys Tranter - @RhysTranter: "But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad."

— Samuel Beckett

I noticed that the Roche chairman's quote on NPR this AM mentioned test kits ready for US market. *sigh* "Market", not people. When capitalism is more important than life and health. Be well, folks.

Existential Comics - @existentialcoms: That is because the free market is not based on rational self interest, it is based on irrational self interest. It is rational self interest for everyone to work together to overcome a crisis; it is irrational self interest for everyone to cut their loses, deepening the crisis.

https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1238554475721134085

Sam Geraci - @AmFamSamGeraci: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that dogs cannot get Covid-19. Dogs can be released from quarantine. I guess you could say that "WHO let the dogs out"

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters

Idrees Kahloon (Economist) reviews Thomas Piketty's vision for transcending capitalism and overcoming our “inequality regime.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/thomas-piketty-goes-global (seems to be paywall free, YMMV)

2 minute video about what's at stake:
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1234846197556371457

The most troubling sentence from @PaulHRosenberg interview with sociologist Andrew Whitehead (http://bit.ly/38gYEIi) is this one: "... [it is] difficult to have a pluralistic democracy, which should be founded on compromise, when ... Christian nationalists desire their way or nothing." Where is there room for discussion?

Debate time, so this is apropos: for the next Q about universal health care costs? This analysis provides insight (it will save $$ & lives) http://bit.ly/39PjTlS (login req’d for free access)

/ht @yourauntemma for a link to this 2016 Anis Shivani essay that clarifies, for me, the inhumane and un-democratic aspects of neoliberal economics that are now embedded in how we think about political and economic realities. https://truthout.org/articles/our-neoliberal-nightmare-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-and-why-the-wealthy-win-every-time/

This long piece from Elizabeth Mika is three + years old and the effects described are even more visible: https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-pivoting-on-narcissistic-collusion-or-how-evil-just-happens-c0332b890f93

A followup to @disorderedworld's Tweet is this excerpt from Albert Camus 1946 essay 'Neither Victims nor Executioners' : "A man with whom one cannot reason is a man to be feared."

Our actions need to recognize with whom we are dealing. Being aware is all I have right now.