Hancock Fabric Store is long gone. Back in the day, there was the Remnant House. That’s been gone for decades. Now, Jo-Ann’s has filed for bankruptcy again, second time in as many years. The Wal-Marts, where I live, sell precut fabric. Hobby Lobby sells fabric, but there is no Hobby Lobby near me and I don’t shop there on principle. I understand Michaels sells fabric, but only online. I know that people don’t sew like they did in the past. I don’t. However, this past year I have been building my stash. I might like to make quilts–again. I miss the days of wandering around a fabric store and actually being able to touch the fabric and match or contrast colors.
There’s something soothing about the patter of rain on a tin roof. Maybe it reminds me of my grandparents’ home and the feeling of “no worries” when visiting.
YouTubers who eat and drink during their broadcasts are doing themselves a disservice. Why do these YouTubers think that we want to hear them slurping their tea, coffee, or other liquid refreshment? Or5 eating with their mouths open, smacking away? It is not a sign of sophistication or intelligence. Usually, I mute the voices and read the captions. Today, I made the mistake of unmuting and the YouTuber was just slurping away. The YouTuber has some good commentary, but now I will remember to always mute her. To me, it’s about manners. I was taught to sip my beverages quietly and to eat without smacking. No one should be aware that I am drinking or eating. Manners–that’s what I was taught and appears to be missing in today’s environment.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice–MLK. However, if you’re at the beginning of the arc or in the turmoil of the arc turning back on itself before it can swing further forward…in one’s lifetime all one experiences is justice denied. Even if one understands that the arc is not linear, it still seems so unfair…the cruelty that man visits upon themselves and this Earth.
Make it make sense. White man taketh and you Black person ask the white man’s god to give it back to you. Are we so ignorant that we don’t know that the Bible tha is so ubiquitous was intentionally written (interpreted by King James’s scribes) to support and justify king, country, and empire, i.e., the British king, the British empire? The stories, the lore of the Black peoples whose stories and lore are the basis of the Bible have been so corrupted by its use to justify the patriarchy and white supremacy that it is nonsensical to turn to it for comfort or as a means to alleviate our troubles.
As I’ve said before (and many others), the Bible and other writings, speeches, activities by white people are solely for the purpose of plausible deniability. See, I’m not bad…look at this, this says how good I am. And we, some of us, take that plausible deniability to heart as truth and believe that this white construct is benevolent. When, in fact, it is just another means of control. Remember…religion is the opiate of the masses.
Why won’t we ask ourselves the question–why would a white construct be benevolent to a people that the whites have demonized? A people that the whites believe to be on this earth solely for their use and benefit? A people they believe to be inferior to them? The same construct that justified hereditary chattel slavery?
You do remember the European dark ages? Where the masses were uneducated so that the few could more easily control them? Where reading the Bible was considered a sin because only the priest (interpreter) had the ear of God? Where the individual had no agency because everything was because of the will of God? Where any fact that did not agree with the church’s control was demonized and the person persecuted–either recant or die? You do remember that history, don’t you?
I’m glad I found the following because as I’ve said before integration was a net harm for us. That MLK finally realized this and ended up understanding that economics was more important shows that a person’s perception of what matters can evolve. Equity and justice in funding, resources, and opportunity is far more important in our schools than integration. Black students and parents should be able to attend a well-resourced school that affirms their identities, which is under assault most of the time. I fear I may have integrated my people into a burning house.” https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/mlks-burning-house/
On January 20, 2025, the burning house is evident and we’re seeing the frame of the house outlined in flame.
Just watched a video on water rights in Arizona. The rich and corporations have access to all the water they want and the hoi polloi are left with dry wells. However, I do not feel any empathy for the hoi polloi. They voted for the very people who enacted legislation for this very result. It was not until the greed of the hoi polloi was impacted by the greed of the corporations that the hoi polloi protested and now want sympathy and empathy for their plight. From what I understand, they had no sympathy or empathy for the Native Americans who had and have no water. (But that’s okay. It was their white right to steal the Native Americans’ land and deny them access to water.) The greed inherent in farm subsidies, i.e, only white farmers should have access, and water rights–didn’t they ever think the Piper would come for his due? What was it I read–privatize the profits and socialize the losses–the new capitalism. I would take issue with this being “new”. The government has always been used by the wealthy to bail out and enrich the wealthy.
Not so much for the hoi polloi who are now suffering. They voted for no regulation and now that the wealthy and the corporations own the government–sorry, hoi polloi suck it up and suffer. The greed of the corporations and the wealthy is their only concern and they’re not giving up any greed to alleviate your suffering.
And, this is the United States–I’m sure some corporation or wealthy individual or scam artist will be glad to sell you water for an exorbitant price–capitalism at its best! When you have no more money–oh, what will you do? Who will save you? You are of no further use to capitalism! And no government to appeal to as the government only cares for the wealthy and the corporations. You do know that the taxes you pay are not for governmental services, but to transfer your paltry dollars to the rich who hoard? What did that Texas politician say to the question, if I remember, something about if one couldn’t afford insurance. I remember his response to be something to the effect–well, you die. Then, capitalism can make money off your funeral. All’s well. You have been successfully monetized from before birth to death and even after death–someone has to pay the fees for the upkeep of the cemetery.
Well, this century’s version of the robber barons are in power. Be very careful–what you eat, drink, medicine–adulteration will be rampant because without regulation and oversight, corporations and the individuals who own them will only care about profits. That’s what we should have learned from the era of the robber barons. Henceforth, buyer beware should be your mantra.
Why doesn’t homo ignoranium stupidus want to think? Why does homo ignoranium stupidus grovel at the feet of another homo ignoranium stupidus who tells them that he will make their lives better…give them the garden of eden that they crave? Make them the person they see in the mirror which is the smoky image of a non-existent phantasm? Maybe we all live in delusional bubbles and mabe only a few of our delusional bubbles intersect with reality. When enough do, maybe that’s when we have an interregnum like from the 1960s to 2008. I say 2008, however, the number of delusional bubbles that intersected with reality were on the decline well before then. Beginning in 2008, the voices from the delusional bubbles became louder and more insistent and more normalized.
The fear mongering to create the environment where anything that the oligarchs want to do in order to increase their wealth at our expense (while making the lives of the hoi polloi more miserable–all for our own good of course) has begun.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past (as) better than it was, the present (as) worse than it is, and the future (as) less resolved than it will be. ―Marcel Pagnol French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker
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