Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

I bet these factored into 1930s Germany to a significant degree.

Nor I. But too many of us did. Or simply didn't vote at all. And then there are these people: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/people-keep-giving-trump-money-who-s-now-raised-over-780-million-since-returning-to-office-who-are-the-wealthy-donors-supporting-him/ar-AA28iHCx?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U53...

The sickness of Trump is Us
Because we voted for him

Yes!

Great momentary
connection.

I keep reading:
"They're just doing their job."
"Don't interfere with them."
"Just following orders."

That's the question. What/who IS the real America? The real citizens/stewards of Earth under Religion of the Almighty Buck? Am I not positive enough? Too angry? Too "left?" "Unwilling to join," as my 1st grade teacher said? Don't I realize we can buy our way to salvation? To power and spiritual fulf...

I guess you gotta cut these neo-mega-hyper-Capitalists trying to take over the world and strip what remains of its resources some slack, but don't expect me to worship them.

I've met Communist survivors.
Even dated one of them.
They're new to the game.
Fervently Capitalist.
Profit is Godliness.
More for everyone.
Yet greed is good,
the peak of morality,
said a lady named Rand.

Blows my mind how some people are still defending this. Un. Real. (If only it weren't real.)

I've always wanted to check out Big Sur and The Subterraneans. My fave is Dharma Bums--especially the part where he climbs that mountain with Gary Snyder (Japhy Ryder). Amazing writing. I read most of Desolation Angels, but never got all the way through it.

This thread went sideways.
Took an unfortunate turn.
Remember the car!

All he did was spew.
Mouth as if squeezing out turds.
He turned the land brown.

John, this reminded me of the vibe I got when I read On the Road by Kerouac.

Teddy was right. We DON'T need to suffer through another Joe McCarthy "un-American" witch hunt mentality.