But there is a time to laugh. My Poised Prauge Pig Post is such a giggle.
If your point is that I am Feeling sorry for myself in these diaries, then you missed MY point.I and my family are incredibly fortunate, like most of the posters on ET. We escaped from the Empire. We are HERE!!
I've been studying cities that work for 30 years, and the great miracle is how much there is to learn- and how little of what I've learned can be applied elsewhere.
It looks as if I need to rethink the diaries- and their usefulness.
Pierre bourdieu, an eminent French sociologist and social activist, talked about the same thing in his little book, "On Television". Great book-- talked about the media's reframing of the public dialog to reject all the hard, complex questions. George Soros talks about the failed nature of what he called a "Feel-Good society", and the fact that he has been unable to find a route past that roadblock.
So at least I'm in good company. "There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.
Yer say ya lost ya best friend in Irak. Ya country wants to drop a nucular bomb on Iran, Yer gonna lose yer house to forclosure next week, Don't have insuance to remove that cancer in yer colon, etc. etc.
Well lift yer head up high; Hillory or Obama's commin in. etc.
I was too lazy too write it up but I figured not too many here are old enough to remember him. I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.
