After 3 years and a couple of months, I'm retiring my CoSo bio:
"Truth matters. Time, attention, thought, empathy & patience matter.
Authoritarianism and barbarity are just different sides of the coin."
I put it up in response to the horror of a fresh Trump win to be POTUS in 2017.
What dark days those were. It seemed like a strange dystopia had just been born and fascism was imminent.
The truth has never taken a more devastating hit than what Trump has done.
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And all those things that make others our saving graces:
Time, attention, empathy and patience.
Were then and now so important to keep front and center.
And that pompous sounding declaration: "Authoritarianism and barbarity are just different sides of the coin."
Showed itself to be pretty dead on building and building and it hasn't even crested yet. He is building up greater and greater barbarity in an effort to grift hs cult and declare himself God-appointed King of America.
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We keep saying this and saying this, but the pressure is still building and building for violence from the MAGA-cult actively encouraged by DJT.
But then there's something I didn't count on or understand as also being a danger and that was the staggering barbarity produced by the arrogance and unfeeling, uncaring, neglect of authoritarianism. A neglect that might be 500,000 dead by March, when it never, ever needed to be.
And he wasn't alone in it. Most of the GOP tacitly approved.
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If I was to re-write my bio using those ideas now it would have to be something like:
"Authoritarianism and barbarity are a multi-headed evil that leads to dozens of unforeseen horrors from arrogance, neglect, self-serving power..."
Besides the hundreds of thousands of dead. Millions are barely able to survive with food and shelter. And that too is another form of the barbarity of incompetence and lack of care and criminal neglect.
But Spring will come.
We're in the home stretch.
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The quote is from a short letter Camus sent:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1230206-my-dear-in-the-midst-of-hate-i-found-there
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Putting this back in:
"Truth matters. Time, attention, thought, empathy & patience matter."
Cos it still matters!!
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@TheAbbotTrithemius Aye, Aye, Mate! Second that!
@TheAbbotTrithemius I did a screen print of that letter section & sticking it in my studio. Either on the wall or in the flap of the book of Jacque Prevert poems he wrote after the war called Paroles. Ferlinghetti translated it & published through City Lights. I found it there, in the North Beach book shop, recommended by the person in staff. She literally matched it to my moment in time, emotionally, psychologically.
@TheAbbotTrithemius Thank you for this.ππ―
Youβre welcome! πΆπΊπͺ
@TheAbbotTrithemius this is beautiful, so soul & life affirming. Appreciate the like to the letter too
but will it be a beautiful green spring, full of promise and new growth, new life and hope,
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likened to the Arab Spring, a vicious fight amongst people who share a common heritage, but are pushed beyond breaking, needing change/growth?
Spring may come in the Spring or it may come in the Summer, Fall or next Winter. But it will come.
Covid is about to get it's motherfucking pathogenic teeth kicked in!!
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^^^ I don't want to forget my old bio above.
But my new CoSo bio/ quote is by Albert Camus, and it's one I repeat to myself when Winter is so miserable and cold, dark and it begins to crush my spirit. Maybe it will help you too:
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
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