And for all practical purposes, they don't exist. Poof!
Like you, I go on-line and fill out my time with a growing circle of
people, articles, books and even music that is mostly ignored outside
my little space capsule
Folks tell me that I must listen to all sides in order to make up my
mind on a subject. Well, I try to do that. But even if I tune on
NPR, they only give lip service to Liberal positions, and none to
Progressives. So I check out the commercial channels and find their
news is Right of Center, or just simpering nonsense. I check out a
few talk shows on radio and TV and find most of them Right Wing rabble
rousers, looking to build an audience for their sponsors. As I said,
Thom Hartman is still on my listening list. In fact, he may be my
"conservative" talk show moderator. Seattle has a man named Dory
Munson, who has been around many years. He is a full blown,
undeclared Libertarian. His entire world centers on whatever is good
for Dory Munson. I could take some of that, but he sneers and
ridicules anyone with a differing position. So why do I need to
listen to that sort of garbage in order to be "informed"?
Carl Jarvis
On 3/11/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:01 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
