[*Quotes/highlights:*] “We see the fifty-year invisible ‘family’ revealed—the ‘community’ that surrounded all Americans & affected every aspect of their lives,..”
“What was desired [by the Filthy Rich elite] was an American personality splintered & disintegrated & desperate for something however irrational to which to cling.”
“In contrast to the former American personality, this campaign by an American, & increasingly global, elite worked to create an apathetic, neutered American easily manipulated to the ends of wealthy overseers.”
“…only because of increasingly cocky & greedy acts & extreme over-reaching ‘in broad daylight,’ before the entire world, did this malevolent surround become visible.”
“What is also evident is the absolute inability of the Filthy Rich...which was the shocking thing they’d carelessly let out & therefore displayed to the World...
“…the absolute inability of the Republicans & the Filthy Rich to actually notice—let alone view or act towards—Americans as anything even living or having sentient ability, let alone as humans, people, or individuals.”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “We saw the beginnings of cultural enlightening & progress during Clinton’s term in the Nineties. In retrospect it was a colorful time; it was an enthusiastic time.”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “*It’s a Wonderful Life* is beloved & timeless, no doubt, because it reassures an entire generation & all those who have had to give up their dreams for whatever reason that their sacrifices were for a higher good…”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…we are beginning to see a metaphor for psychological realities & that ‘following the script’ has a broader meaning for a choice that everyone must make in life in growing up,..”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…[the 60s Generation] were biding their time, waiting—sometimes hopeless that it would ever arrive—for a reversing of the pendulum & a return in society to the ideals & visions of a better world…”
our modern life is permeated with ways we block out ordinary experience to bring our experience in line with things we hold in our head (left brain).
we decide where to go, & zone out in a car to get there,
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then the only experience we allow ourselves is that of being there.
with clocks & appointments & schedules we tell our bodies *when* & *how* it should perform, not feeling (right brain) what our bodies want & need to do in the moment.