Linda it is a testament to the willing blindness of Americans that they don't see what is happening in front of our eyes. Myopia or tunnel vision seems to be common quality among Americans, maybe it is a human defect. What ever fears and needs we have, we focus on the nearest, loudest bright shiny object,like less sentient and perceptive…
Linda it is a testament to the willing blindness of Americans that they don't see what is happening in front of our eyes. Myopia or tunnel vision seems to be common quality among Americans, maybe it is a human defect. What ever fears and needs we have, we focus on the nearest, loudest bright shiny object,like less sentient and perceptive creatures.
Humans demand predictability and conformity and they don't know how to deal with exceptions perhaps one reason that persons of transgender identity are so threatening and confusing. We have this need for certainty, or they friend or foe, male or female, sexually attractive or not, members of my ethnically or outsiders. Long o short, fat or skinny, attractive or ugly, Christian or infidel, Muslim or infidel, if you ain't with me then you are against me.
People have this need to categorize and put in boxes.
All of the ink print all of the 1's and O's of the computational world, are not going to change human behavior or their minds, Only experience can do that, and I am an expert in that.
I do not see the world through the same eyes as I did when I was 50, not because of books, I am very, very well read. I have given away and moved away from more books than most people will read in a lifetime. As a teen I exhausted a public library of all books that interested me, including over 160 books deemed the classics.
The first full book I read was at the age of 8, it was Homer's Odyssey, the next full book I can remember reading is the Bible at age 12, and I devoured everything I could, even labels on cereal packages and canned goods.
But it was real world experiences that caused me to see the world in a different light.
These ignorant, outraged, self absorbed, self righteous types won't see the light and change their ways and minds, until reality comes crashing down upon them, and then it is too late, for them, for you and for me.
The only thing we can do is try and warn people, which has proven thus far to be a fruitless endeavor, and take actions and measures that will secure our own safety and survival, we have saved a lot of money, paid off our debts and mortgages, made out wills and related documents and most importantly have current passports (renewed in the last year)
You and I, we gnash our teeth (well mine are false, so no), we kvetch, we write, we comment, we bitch and moan, and our audience is very small, of no effect, and is only half listening.
Push come to shove, after all our efforts, the only thing we can do is vote, cross our fingers, and make preparations for our own survival.
After the invention of cannons, and Europeans discovered gunpowder, castle walls no longer attacked as a bulwark against the enemy besieging,
As the cannonade smashed a hole in the wall, the first troops through the hole we known as the forlorn hope.,it was rare that any survived.
Considering the pig pigheadedness of those would or should ostensibly be allies, my hope is forlorn indeed, like the idiot 100,000 in Michigan that are showing their rear ends to the Democrats and thus electing Trump who will in turn round them up and deport or concentrate them until he deports.
Fools like Ayman Mohyeldin try to blame Biden, for the making of their own dilemma,but blame doesn't matter, not when you are being rounded up and deported or placed in concentration camps, and it can happen here, because it already happened in 1942
I taught at the School of John Dewey who wrote Experience and Education. I am a firm believer in experience as a teacher. It helps one to imagine more scenarios. I feel the limits of this with the NYT staff covering elections, and I feel it in the decision making of people who do not even know what most of the questions posed to them mean, who are voting for Trump, with totally blind stupidity. I am also someone who has lived in more than one country, and I would love if that were a high school requirement. To live abroad and adapt to another culture.
You and I have lived in more than country, I was once fluent enough in Vietnamese to read the Saigon Post and hold a conversation, my fluency saved my hide. I also lived in Panama, and married a Panamanian, and had a Panamanian step son who is now an American and a grandfather.
As regards questions, I am assuming you mean polls.
I take umbrage with the pollsters and media, because all they are looking out for is their own
interests (profits). Instead of asking their opinion of Biden or Trump. The only question is Who will you vote for?
But that question doesn't facilitate the horse race which is the lifeblood of pollsters and media.
Linda it is a testament to the willing blindness of Americans that they don't see what is happening in front of our eyes. Myopia or tunnel vision seems to be common quality among Americans, maybe it is a human defect. What ever fears and needs we have, we focus on the nearest, loudest bright shiny object,like less sentient and perceptive creatures.
Humans demand predictability and conformity and they don't know how to deal with exceptions perhaps one reason that persons of transgender identity are so threatening and confusing. We have this need for certainty, or they friend or foe, male or female, sexually attractive or not, members of my ethnically or outsiders. Long o short, fat or skinny, attractive or ugly, Christian or infidel, Muslim or infidel, if you ain't with me then you are against me.
People have this need to categorize and put in boxes.
All of the ink print all of the 1's and O's of the computational world, are not going to change human behavior or their minds, Only experience can do that, and I am an expert in that.
I do not see the world through the same eyes as I did when I was 50, not because of books, I am very, very well read. I have given away and moved away from more books than most people will read in a lifetime. As a teen I exhausted a public library of all books that interested me, including over 160 books deemed the classics.
The first full book I read was at the age of 8, it was Homer's Odyssey, the next full book I can remember reading is the Bible at age 12, and I devoured everything I could, even labels on cereal packages and canned goods.
But it was real world experiences that caused me to see the world in a different light.
These ignorant, outraged, self absorbed, self righteous types won't see the light and change their ways and minds, until reality comes crashing down upon them, and then it is too late, for them, for you and for me.
The only thing we can do is try and warn people, which has proven thus far to be a fruitless endeavor, and take actions and measures that will secure our own safety and survival, we have saved a lot of money, paid off our debts and mortgages, made out wills and related documents and most importantly have current passports (renewed in the last year)
You and I, we gnash our teeth (well mine are false, so no), we kvetch, we write, we comment, we bitch and moan, and our audience is very small, of no effect, and is only half listening.
Push come to shove, after all our efforts, the only thing we can do is vote, cross our fingers, and make preparations for our own survival.
After the invention of cannons, and Europeans discovered gunpowder, castle walls no longer attacked as a bulwark against the enemy besieging,
As the cannonade smashed a hole in the wall, the first troops through the hole we known as the forlorn hope.,it was rare that any survived.
Considering the pig pigheadedness of those would or should ostensibly be allies, my hope is forlorn indeed, like the idiot 100,000 in Michigan that are showing their rear ends to the Democrats and thus electing Trump who will in turn round them up and deport or concentrate them until he deports.
Fools like Ayman Mohyeldin try to blame Biden, for the making of their own dilemma,but blame doesn't matter, not when you are being rounded up and deported or placed in concentration camps, and it can happen here, because it already happened in 1942
First they came for.... and you know the rest.
I taught at the School of John Dewey who wrote Experience and Education. I am a firm believer in experience as a teacher. It helps one to imagine more scenarios. I feel the limits of this with the NYT staff covering elections, and I feel it in the decision making of people who do not even know what most of the questions posed to them mean, who are voting for Trump, with totally blind stupidity. I am also someone who has lived in more than one country, and I would love if that were a high school requirement. To live abroad and adapt to another culture.
You and I have lived in more than country, I was once fluent enough in Vietnamese to read the Saigon Post and hold a conversation, my fluency saved my hide. I also lived in Panama, and married a Panamanian, and had a Panamanian step son who is now an American and a grandfather.
As regards questions, I am assuming you mean polls.
I take umbrage with the pollsters and media, because all they are looking out for is their own
interests (profits). Instead of asking their opinion of Biden or Trump. The only question is Who will you vote for?
But that question doesn't facilitate the horse race which is the lifeblood of pollsters and media.