Miriam,
Yes, more complicated. But beyond that I 'm not clear about your point.
Carl Jarvis what you
On 1/14/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl, yes, but I think that's an oversimplification. The pattern you're
describing exists, but massive social changes have taken place. The
experiences of average people are vastly different than they were even only
thirty or forty years ago. Whether you're talking about what takes place in
a doctor's office, in a grocery store, on the street, on an airplane, or
just the weather. Whether you're talking about TV programs or phone calls or
restaurants, it's a totally different world. It's possible that you don't
see as much change in Washington as I do in New York, but I doubt that.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: socialism and the self made man
But remember, the system works for those who set it in motion...and for all
the generations since. The Colonial Oligarchy established the United States
of America, and convinced working class men to fight for it. The rank and
file soldier came home to exactly the life he left behind. This was not his
new Nation. This was merely a change of Masters. Sure, we've made
modifications down through the years, but in the main the original Oligarchy
has successfully passed control from White Father to White Sons. As I say,
it works! We just grumble because we have to settle for crumbs from our
Master's table.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/12/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, as has been becoming more and more evident to me lately, if
there's any human care left in our society, it can be found with
individual relationships. But all the talk about our democratic
liberal Judeo/Christian values, it's all a lie. There's too much
emphasis on technology, progress, and financial enrichment. Commitment
and relationships remain within traditional family structures and
small communities, I suppose, to the extent that these haven't been
corrupted by larger socio/economic forces.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: socialism and the self made man
It's a conundrum. Our Older Blind Program suffers the same fools in
administration. Both of our Program managers have never worked in the
field. They busy themselves drafting up new forms to gather new
information that they believe will justify the Program to the Federal
Government and to the State. But meanwhile the contracts seldom
provide for increases in cost of aids and equipment and pay to the
contractors. Meanwhile we have not had an audit in so many years I'd
need to look up how long ago it was, but at least ten years. For the
past five years we've had no training. We never meet to discuss
Program Direction, or new developments in the Field. Cathy and I are
doing pretty much the same stuff we did 25 years ago. We do include
new information and aids in the Client Packets we provide, but our
budget does not allow us to provide the array of equipment and services
required to assist clients to maintain their independence.
Our older population, and especially our disabled older population, is
getting the shaft. We're growing in numbers but funding is shrinking.
No training for new rehab teachers. Just a requirement that they
haave a bachlor's degree, preferably in Social Services, and a
willingness to work cheap. When I'm not totally down on the program
as it now exists, I think that one day the Feds will move the last of
the money to take care of something else, and no one will notice.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/12/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's what I was thinking about this morning. What caused the train
of thought was my latest very disturbing experience with home health
aides. I hear some organizers on the left, talking about how we need
to raise the salaries of the people who care for our children and our
elderly, how these are the people on whom we depend to care for our
loved ones while we are, are what? We are working at good paying jobs
to pay mortgages and for our children's college educations, and for
our vacations, and for the style of life to which we have been
taught, we are entitled. Nobody, of course, talks about what these
underpaid people who care for our loved ones are actually like, or
the quality of care that they provide. That would open a whole can
of worms. So I was thinking that a society that truly values its
children and its elderly, would be sure that the people who were
responsible for their care were highly trained professionals, people
paid the kind of salaries that would attract the most intelligent and
gifted people.
Aren't those the kind of people who you'd want to care for and
educate your children and to provide care and assistance and
companionship to your elderly? But in reality, those highly
intelligent, gifted people are educated to work in technology, the
purpose of which is to augment financial profit for corporations and
to make our war machine more efficient. Other people who are highly
paid are entertainers, sports figures, and news celebrities. Their
purpose is to keep the population diverted and under control. I
suppose that the 1% has access to properly qualified people to care
for their elderly, and we know that the kind of education provided
for their children, is very different from that provided for the
majority of children. I assume that they carefully choose the people
who are responsible for the care of their infants and toddlers. My
contact with those families took place when they were in the adoption
process. There were follow up visits after the children were placed,
but the children's caregivers were never in evidence during those
visits because the myth was that the mothers were caring for them.
Miriam
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] socialism and the self made man
Sunday morning mumbling.
The Self Made Man! An oft repeated old Fairy Tale that has been
peddled to Americans since the Creation of this Nation. From those
days of the "rugged individual" who pulled himself up by his own boot
straps, to the "I'm for Me First" Libertarians of the 60's, and on to
today's "Trumpsters", this myth persists, despite overwhelming proof
that it is simply another tool of the American Empire's efforts to
control the American Working Class. Anyone holding those archaic
beliefs that expressed the, "Me, Myself and I"
philosophy, have been fully taken over by the Empire's propaganda.
Stop and ask yourself how a nation can call itself a nation if all
its People look out only for themselves.
That would not be a nation. We could call it a Mob, but without any
concern for those others in the Land, it could never be called a
Nation. We have become so conditioned to believe that socialism is a
dirty word, that we refuse to accept the fact that socialism is what
makes a nation a nation.
We establish rules, laws, regulations. We agree to obey common laws
for the good of the many. We join together, lending our support and
giving our money to support police forces, fire departments, courts,
and we select leaders to represent our needs. All that is socialism,
including our postal system and our public schools. Our churches are
based upon socialism.
Those who Believe certain ways, gather together and develop a
Theology, and raise up a Temple or a Church, and support one another
in the accepted Beliefs.
But we Americans have been so brainwashed that we refuse to accept
that we are social in nature, that we depend upon others for our very
well being.
And by the way, just what is the difference between Donald Trump,
promising what he will do for the people, and Bernie Sanders
promising the People what he will do for them? Each one is
supporting Socialism, whether it is in the form of tax reduction for
the Billionaires, or Single Payer Health Care for All Americans.
Anyway, I'd like to visit one of those "rugged individuals" one day,
and see where they keep their chickens, cows, and grow their crops.
I'd spend the week watching them slaughter a hog and tan its hide,
turning it into shoes and belts and maybe even a wallet and a
matching jacket. Of course they must also grow a small forest in
order to cut down trees, buck them up and split them for firewood.
It's been a very long time since a single individual could strike out
on their own and survive in the Wilderness. So how does one do it in
today's world?
Just wondering.
Carl Jarvis, supporting socialism that is "Of the People, By the
People and for ALL the People".
