The next species to go extinct on earth will be.... us
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:11 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Just Voted
One thing for certain, Joe, if the next generation is no better than the
current one, it will be the Last Generation.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/27/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Voting is becoming, as you put it, an exercise in personal expression.
Perhaps it is like street artists, and nominal, or neo-anarchists in
their attempts at expressing angst, and alienation via "graffiti".
Perhaps it is a
modern expression of cave art when we were more familiar with other
animals
and their angst, alienation; wants and needs. Oh my, perhaps I've I am
enlightened. Perhaps, I've touched the motherload. Perhaps I've
invoked Jeeezuz. And perhaps I've smoked some salmon, or at very least
some sacred and tasty mackerel.
Perhaps it is like Douglass Adam's dolphins who predicted doom of our
race,
and planet in his wonderfully black humor. I don't know. (Perhaps I'm
channeling Douglass Adams right now.)
Not knocking the expression or even the value of same by the way. For
these
street artists were valued much in my sighted days and are to this
very day
though only abstractly and, certainly not viscerally as their
expression is
not viscerally expressed for the blind like me. Yet, I applaud from
afar the effort, from cave drawings to the present these are valuable
expressions, my personal angst to the side. They really are and I'm
not being sarcastic in the least here.
Though while I swim about in my little pool here clambering for just
another
tasty bite of Mackerel whilst eyeing Miss Flippy, a rather attractive
dolphin of the sexual sort, if I must say whilst I Digress...
I'm troubled though and am still going to vote for Hilarity while
holding my
nose big time. I just will do so unless an earthquake or Republican
assassin
takes me down.
And I also flipped about doing so many almost magical tricks whilst in
captivity just to score a bite of mackerel let alone even again a
glimpse let alone an escapade with Ms. Flippy....
I've voted for iconoclasts and others before to no avail.
Shit I even voted in protest for Ross Perot though I knew he was a
wingnutt,
but at least it was a sort of mass vote for "none of the above".
And I flipped about in the mass aquarium though I knew it wasn't even
a thimble of the ocean and smiled and clacked about just to get
another bite of fish let alone again, once again another ....Oh my was I
fixed on Ms.
Flippy. To be honest as you humans say, "She gave me a woody and more."
Though we Dolphins call our "woodies" "flippies" and to each his or
her own.
I don't say my way is the right way by the way.
It was just my way of expression.
I understand those, right, left and almost indifferent for their angst
at what we've got to this day.
I've seen that stuff all of my life and agree basically though I
express myself differently from time to time with some on this list.
Right now, whether right or wrong, I'm thinking about my kid and
potential grandkids and next generations. I am thinking about giving
them some "breathing room" to survive let alone flourish.
Now, I am thinking about swimming far out to sea, you know leaving
this prison paradise full of free fish and good, but not loving sex
and all that,
let alone cable TV. I really like Steven Colbert, The Simpson's and
for some
strange reason Meagan Kelly of Fox TV. I'd be sad to let all of that
go in Armageddon or some sort of mass extinction and such.
Again, I could be and probably am most assuredly wrong in this mess
fan action given past experiences and folly experimenting with
democracy and the
human condition.
That is my cynical side speaking. And, indeed we've all experienced
the angst of that side of our common human and collective experience.
For when I was young and free I fucked every pretty thing that plied
the ocean waves and I loved it and she or (what is the plural she?)
loved it too
or at least I think so. That is what they all said in dolphin language
which
only "Flipper fans" have even heard and which no human actually understands.
But, it is a big deal, let me tell you.
Now, let me state or try to state and try to resurrect my spiritual,
or transcendent or, whatever one wishes to call it side of my
experience and being. I like to call it the optimistic side or calling
back to my youth the
idealistic side of the human experience.
Let me say, or try to say that I think....No scratch that....I hope
that our
next generation can be better than us and that time is not too late.
Oh, I've read the news of and from Armageddon central and from
scientist too!! In fact I've read many articles about the devastation
of the planet since the early 1970's s about the planetary destruction
and since have read
many more about the rapid extinction of life here which are disturbing
to say the least. In fact they scare the living shit out of me for if
true, or
if not changed then , well then, or rather, clearing my
throat....Or...What
the fuck can I say or ask here?
Man, o man or man or fish-like man, ergo, dolphin's like me let me
say, "What was the original subject? Sorry I was smoking some sea
grass and was
distracted for a moment..." Man or fish or dolphin...Hmmm...That
wassome realy good grass, man, exhaling deeply...
think about it yawl, maybe denial is a good thing at least for piece
of mind?
Oh, as Joseph Conrad wrote in "The heartier of Darkness", "The horror,
the horror."
Frankly, I am starting to think that we are in a sort of ecological
end times given again the fact that almost 50 percent or more of
species have become or are on the verge of extinction since 1970.
That is quite scary indeed. Indeed it is so scary that may try to
either confront the beast (fight syndrome) or to fly away (flight
syndrome). Bot are parts of human construction. Bouth are built in to nurture
and nature.
Both are what we are.
Still, getting kinda high on the atmosphere here and all of this
profound thinking I must say before departing this scene like the
goodly Douglass Adams wrote, "Thanks for all the fish."
Your ever dolphin friend.
Joe
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From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 4:06 PM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Just Voted
I suppose that in this day and age, voting has become merely an
exercise in personal expression. It's a pretty sad state of affairs,
but who am I to criticize? I voted for presidential candidates who
have no chance of winning either. I omitted voting for some judges
who were endorsed by every existing party in Nassau County since it
seemed to me that if all the parties endorsed them, they stood for
nothing at all. I voted for a congresswoman
I
hate because the Republican candidate would have been even worse.
Actdually, I put a lot of thought into each vote I cast and as I did
so, I felt like the whole thing was an exercise in futility.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger ;
Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 3:20 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Just Voted
I just voted. I was really considering voting for Jeff Mackler for
president, but in the end I stuck with Alyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart.
I really don't like Alyson's party's position on Israel now, but I
voted for her anyway and I will have to admit that it had something
to do with the fact that I could not remember how to spell Jeff
Mackler's vice presidential running mate's name. For those of you who
are so enamored by liberals you may be happy to know that I voted for
Charlotte Pritt for governor and went down the ballot voting for
anyone else who was running as a Mountain Party candidate. The
Mountain amounts to being the Green Party in West Virginia.
I
would not have voted for them if I had thought they had any chance of
being elected and, in fact, I did vote against Charlotte Pritt back
in the 1990's when she ran for governor as a Democrat. It's just that
I wanted to register a protest against the Republicrats and there was
nothing else to do it with other than the Libertarian Party and the
Constitution Party. Writing in candidates is a lot of trouble and a
slow process, so I just went with the Mountain Party. Far down the
ballot, though, I did write in another name and he was actually a
democrat. It seems that a Democrat named Eric Wells filed for the
position of county clerk. There was some legal chicanery that kept
him off the ballot that is too complex for me to go into here and the
only candidate on the ballot for that position was a Republican. So I
wrote his name in just to protest his being ruled off the ballot. All
in all, I think I can congratulate myself for having stuck with my
lifelong record of having never voted for a candidate who won.
