Carl,
What is most interesting is that given the articles and books I read, and now
all these podcasts, I can live very comfortably in my alternative universe,
surrounded by interesting people with a variety of points of view with which I
more or less agree, and I can pretend that all of those folks around me right
here on Long Island, who would string me and my favorite authors and speakers
up in a minute, if they knew what we were thinking and what is being said,
don't exist.
Miriam
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Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:01 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chris Hedges
Good Saturday morning, Miriam.
Flashpoint comes in on KSER FM, from Everett, Washington. Often I am busy
puttering in the kitchen and building a fire and my other duties as a Partner
in the Cathy and Carl Enterprise, and miss the 6:00 A.M.
broadcast. Sometimes I catch it an hour later on another Public Radio Channel.
But yesterday I flipped the radio on and, what to my wondering ears did
appear? Chris Hedges, speaking from Vancouver...Canada, I assume.
Cathy does not care to listen to Cris Hedges just for the fact that he often
sounds preachy. But she isn't fond of Richard Wolff either, because he often
sounds like he's speaking to 6 year old's...or idiots(her words, not mine).
With Wolff, I listen for content and ignore the tone. With Hedges, I am
engaged. So what if his early training shows through. My dad could sound a
bit like a pulpit banger, even as he declared his Atheism. Hauled to church
every time the doors were open, and with two of his favorite uncles being
preachers, dad was raised on the rhythm of the Old Time Religion. I enjoy the
tone set by a good preacher...like Martin Luther King, Jr.
And I get off on the old Gospel songs. Again, Cathy thinks I'm weird, singing
songs about something I really don't believe exists. But then, she was raised
up in the Catholic Faith, where the Priests mumbled in Latin and rang little
bells for no good reason.
But we do both agree that Chris Hedges is a modern day prophet, crying a
warning in the Wilderness. I suppose since Chris Hedges agrees with me so
often, albeit in much more intellectual terms, I hold him in higher regard
than, say, Thom Hartman. Even though I have respect for Hartman's line of
reasoning, I struggle with the fact that he still holds to the belief that the
Democratic Party can be salvaged, and that our nation was not set up as an
Oligarchy. Still, Hartman does provide me with fertilizer to feed my thinking,
whereas those Right Wing Talk Jocks just feed my anger.
Well, I spent yesterday, from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 PM. on a conference call with
the State Rehabilitation Council, for the Department of Services for the Blind,
and now I have some clients to attend to.
Take care.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/10/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just heard a portion of a speech that Chris Hedges gave in Vancouver
Canada on March 4th. Dennis Bernstein played it on Flashpoints.
Flashpoints comes from KFPK in Berkley where they've been doing, not
very successful fundraising for the past few weeks. So they have this
speech which they will give to people who donate $75. The speech is
incredibly upsetting. What Hedges does in it, is to describe What the
Trump administration has been doing in terms of economics and race
since it came into power. Hedges doesn't tell us anything we don't
know. He just puts it all together and when you hear it all, described
as he describes it, it is shocking. And Hedges doesn't just talk. He
preaches, or some such thing.
Miriam