Well, this business of listening to all sides is not for me because all sides
are not equally valid. Listening to all sides would mean that the Alt Right
should be given equal time with someone like Tom Hartman.
Miriam
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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
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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
