ISSUES FOR YOUR TOP-OF-MIND AWARENESS…
There are a number of stories and themes that I come back to again and again. My friend Eric Vessels once wrote that I do a consistently good job of following up, and Scene Magazine said that my daily posts remind the public of Cleveland controversies long after the local media gets bored and moves on.
So, that is what I’m attempting to do here with three topics: our ongoing conversation on Racism Xenophobia in America, the vital need to slam the brakes on Global Warming/Climate Change and the struggle to free Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.
Enjoy. Think, Discuss, Act…
Trump’s m.o. transcends party politics. People like him because he is loud, aggressive, and mostly just makes stuff up. And that is perceived as power, so supporting him means being part of that power. And ” getting even” with whatever a body conceives as the reason it isn’t as successful as it thinks it should be.
Although Trump has been described as a pathological liar, I do not understand if he is consciously aware that he is lying or just making stuff up to wind up the crowds. His intelligence has been described as an ability to read crowds.
I had read the books Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts. They are described as “hard” science fiction because they are bleak and not fantastically optimistic. He explores and tries to distinguish between intelligence and consciousness, and ends up insinuating that consciousness may be a handicap at some point.
That pretty much sums up Trump.
His masses like the way he wins and dances on the graves of the fallen.