Last night, after watching a couple of episodes of Vienna Blood ( where a young neurologist and psychoanalyst helps a detective solve murders in 1900s Vienna) we decided to check and see what Lawrence O'Donnell was talking about.
We will all be sharing sleepless nights, I’m afraid. The reality is almost too hard to imagine. When I talk with others about it, they look uncomfortable and the subject soon changes. Not sure how to deal with it all, I suspect. I wonder what the scuttlebutt is in the breakroom on a Koch break room these days?
The news gets worse and worse. I just read the PBS closed their DEI department and laid off the employees who worked in it.
Not only the Kochs, but I wonder what Rupert Murdoch thinks about all of this. We know what Musk wants a dictatorship because if he can't be the American Hitler, he wants to be Trump's Hermann Goering, but how many of these oligarchs want to be part of a dictatorship? Do they really want to be good Nazis like these Germans?
People have various level of the anxiety they can handle. I can deal with trepidation, but that's me. I think the way to do this is compartmentalization. One has to learn to take a mental break and tune into something pleasurable and focus on that. This give the brain circuits a chance to rest and rest. It's like rebooting your device.
Thanks for staying up so late to write this post. It’s so important we all know what’s happening and what it means. I’ve been watching Nazi movies, lately, to try to pick up some clues about these violent, sadistic people in our world now. Today’s movie was Schindler’s List. I had to take a break when Amon Goeth said that the Jews have been in Poland for 600 years but that night that would become a rumor.
You're welcome Regina. As a Jew I am very conscious of the history of the Holocaust. I grew up hearing about it. My late wife and I took my friend who had been my mentor in graduate school, to the theater to see it when it came out. His parents ad family had been killed in the camps but they sent him out of Germany in the 1930s to the US so he lived. We didn't want him to see it alone. Having him with us made it especially more powerful.
Cost saving of FBI outsources work to third party gig workers as, 'Uber Agents'.
We will all be sharing sleepless nights, I’m afraid. The reality is almost too hard to imagine. When I talk with others about it, they look uncomfortable and the subject soon changes. Not sure how to deal with it all, I suspect. I wonder what the scuttlebutt is in the breakroom on a Koch break room these days?
The news gets worse and worse. I just read the PBS closed their DEI department and laid off the employees who worked in it.
Not only the Kochs, but I wonder what Rupert Murdoch thinks about all of this. We know what Musk wants a dictatorship because if he can't be the American Hitler, he wants to be Trump's Hermann Goering, but how many of these oligarchs want to be part of a dictatorship? Do they really want to be good Nazis like these Germans?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Meeting_of_20_February_1933
People have various level of the anxiety they can handle. I can deal with trepidation, but that's me. I think the way to do this is compartmentalization. One has to learn to take a mental break and tune into something pleasurable and focus on that. This give the brain circuits a chance to rest and rest. It's like rebooting your device.
Thanks for staying up so late to write this post. It’s so important we all know what’s happening and what it means. I’ve been watching Nazi movies, lately, to try to pick up some clues about these violent, sadistic people in our world now. Today’s movie was Schindler’s List. I had to take a break when Amon Goeth said that the Jews have been in Poland for 600 years but that night that would become a rumor.
You're welcome Regina. As a Jew I am very conscious of the history of the Holocaust. I grew up hearing about it. My late wife and I took my friend who had been my mentor in graduate school, to the theater to see it when it came out. His parents ad family had been killed in the camps but they sent him out of Germany in the 1930s to the US so he lived. We didn't want him to see it alone. Having him with us made it especially more powerful.