This is the corner of Beverly and Fairfax if I’m not mistaken. Where @billmaher shoots @RealTimers. Where the famous Los Angeles Farmers Market is.
The world is ready to go up in flames. The trick is how to revolt locally without the whole planet going sideways. Can it be done?
The world is ready to go up in flames. The trick is how to revolt locally without the whole planet going sideways. Can it be done?
Here is the thing that I have a hard time communicating:
Revolts are essential, if for no other reason than to prevent those more significant revolutions which we cannot afford. The power of the governed must be felt by the instutions and their leaders. And they don’t feel. Yet.
Revolts are essential, if for no other reason than to prevent those more significant revolutions which we cannot afford. The power of the governed must be felt by the instutions and their leaders. And they don’t feel. Yet.
We want to communicate with our leaders. But many of us are not taken seriously. We aren’t big political donors. We don’t have fancy titles. We are just people who aren’t in on the kleptocracy. That is, the gentile white shoe looting that happens daily in the corridors of power.
So how do I feel about looting & arson? Well, in a better 🌍 I‘d opt for enormous menacing protests that were sufficient to wake those in power to cut their infinite crap. But in my dreams, they‘d stop short of damage & violence. What can I say, Dick Gregory was a hero to me.
Now, I don’t know. Is there any way to reach @realDonaldTrump 74 or the DNC. Are @senatemajldr 78 or @SpeakerPelosi 80 really going to change their minds? @JoeBiden 77? Is it worth it to them to start all over now? Maybe. But they are all sufficiently old it doesn’t seem likely.
So I’m divided. I want enormous threatening protests to be over everything that has gone seriously wrong: PPE, police brutality, Chinese meddling, campaign financing and generalized corruption. But I‘m repulsed by looting & the meaningless loss of safety due to arson & vandalism.
Some will say that this is impossible. Big crowds turn ugly they‘ll say.
And I will say: study MLK. Study Gregory. Study Mother Jones. And pay attention to @KillerMike. You have to be mad to want to burn it all down. But madder still to dare to build again amidst this chaos.
🙏
And I will say: study MLK. Study Gregory. Study Mother Jones. And pay attention to @KillerMike. You have to be mad to want to burn it all down. But madder still to dare to build again amidst this chaos.
🙏
*genteel! Obviously. Jeez. What an auto-correct way to guess wrong. Gentle, Gentile, Genteel, Genital. I’ve been here several times before...
