tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772956368752433326.post878590831096093754..comments2024-03-29T05:23:06.618-04:00Comments on Ramona's Voices: FRIDAY FOLLIES: Sarah wuvs Sarah, The Silence of the Lump, and Solidarity PizzasRamona Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07160614050077886238noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772956368752433326.post-89184354832789471112011-02-25T18:56:22.231-05:002011-02-25T18:56:22.231-05:00Kringles, yes! We can get them in parts of the U....Kringles, yes! We can get them in parts of the U.P, too. <br />Love your musical history lesson. I've seen all but Seeger and Arlo. That was great. We need more of that to remind us why we're doing what we're doing.<br /><br />The cartoon hit home with me, as I've heard people talk like that--as if there's no hope of them making more so nobody should.<br /><br />Why ordinary people think their job is to give up everything in order to make the rich richer is a never-ending mystery.Ramona Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07160614050077886238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772956368752433326.post-26749606661525958082011-02-25T10:29:23.662-05:002011-02-25T10:29:23.662-05:00In no particular order...
Someone in Racine ought...In no particular order...<br /><br />Someone in Racine ought to find a way to get the Madison folks some Kringle for breakfast.<br /><br />And who knew - Palin's her own sockpuppet!<br /><br />A guy I worked with back when we were doing a local sports-news show before games always said that people ought not to be allowed to call themselves "white supremacists" unless they could spell it correctly.<br /><br />I put up a little "musical history lesson" over at TPM-aholics. DD/Arthur seemed to like it.<br /><br />And a comment on the 'toon: It's largely because in this society, many people really don't have a grasp of how much wealth (and thus power) is concentrated at the very top, and how effectively everyone else has been manipulated into fighting over the scraps like starving wild dogs, that such attitudes arise. Ignorance is dangerous, far more so than we might think.<br /><br />And also because there is a persistent delusion in the wild that any one of us might somehow find ourselves plucked from obscurity and become incredibly wealthy. <br /><br />Won't happen. Social mobility is now lower in the US than in almost any other "modern" nation. (Downward might be the main exception!) Rags-to-riches is now rags-to-tatters for most of us. <br /><br />Wisconsin shows us something, though. Despite the foolish loyalists, there can come a point where the wall and the corner behind us will, as Sun Tzu so wisely pointed out long ago, "redouble (our) strength" - and having little left to lose will do that as well. <br /><br />What needs to happen now is somehow to reduce the tribalism infecting us like some malevolent pathogen, and thus reduce the disconnect between what we perceive and what's really going on.<br /><br />I don't yet have an answer to that. I'm working on it.<br /><br />For the moment, even marginally better will have to do as an alternative. And even marginally better is worth fighting for, as we see the other possibilities being imposed just to my east.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06939468809703630844noreply@blogger.com