Thanks for this article and the mention of the Forgotten Man (yet another thing to read!).
Really think that, as a society, we need to revive the concept of the "deserving poor", since mass State welfare just breeds more of the behaviors it is (allegedly) supposed to correct.
I was asked to attend a movie, about aging, recently.
Characterized to me as a typical theater experience (dark, popcorn, etc), in fact the film was a government offering, shown in a room in a government building, officiated over by government people.
And the plot was Bumble the Beadle heavy on "healthcare." Obese obeisance it was - including the body politic of the room.
And afterward, there was round-table discussion amongst the six partially full round-table participants.
Or supplicants.
I should have left my companion to it.
Many, or most, of the people there were making obviously practiced rounds. And the theme was hands out for "resources" & "funding."
For just a little more of the same, please. The Olivers did the Twist. Nary a Sam Cooke (who got murdered whilst working on the chain-gang).
I brought up 19th century mutual aid societies. To polite blankness.
I painted the picador's picaresque: when the rancher pays the vet, it isn't on the livestocks' behalf (3rd party insurers is who "healthcare" looks to - not the patient, corralled, cattle). Blank caterpillars started metamorphosing into im/patient (inpatient?) butterflies. Or cuckoos nesting.
Somebody brought up the centenarian women in Okinawa. Ah-so, mutual aid!
So I spoke about culture. Okinawa now, apparently/supposedly, compared to here now, compared to the much more supplicant-free days of yore.
I must have been looking to brawl, or incite a riot.
But then the head of a small family group threw me a line. First gen Venezuelans.
The patria chimed in asking "what about family?"
And I spoke of generations not divvied up into boomers, X's, millennials, not looking for their respective pieces of The American Dole-Dream, but of the old Hallmark cards & Norman Rockwell family values that exist in hard places like Venezuela - but not in soft serve bribery & hard scoop veterinarian places like USA.
Well, all will be well now. The deus ex machina Dukes of Moral Hazzard are gonna fire up the General Lee & jump the sharks & quit that old definition of insanity.
Thanks for this article and the mention of the Forgotten Man (yet another thing to read!).
Really think that, as a society, we need to revive the concept of the "deserving poor", since mass State welfare just breeds more of the behaviors it is (allegedly) supposed to correct.
Yes.
I was asked to attend a movie, about aging, recently.
Characterized to me as a typical theater experience (dark, popcorn, etc), in fact the film was a government offering, shown in a room in a government building, officiated over by government people.
And the plot was Bumble the Beadle heavy on "healthcare." Obese obeisance it was - including the body politic of the room.
And afterward, there was round-table discussion amongst the six partially full round-table participants.
Or supplicants.
I should have left my companion to it.
Many, or most, of the people there were making obviously practiced rounds. And the theme was hands out for "resources" & "funding."
For just a little more of the same, please. The Olivers did the Twist. Nary a Sam Cooke (who got murdered whilst working on the chain-gang).
I brought up 19th century mutual aid societies. To polite blankness.
I painted the picador's picaresque: when the rancher pays the vet, it isn't on the livestocks' behalf (3rd party insurers is who "healthcare" looks to - not the patient, corralled, cattle). Blank caterpillars started metamorphosing into im/patient (inpatient?) butterflies. Or cuckoos nesting.
Somebody brought up the centenarian women in Okinawa. Ah-so, mutual aid!
So I spoke about culture. Okinawa now, apparently/supposedly, compared to here now, compared to the much more supplicant-free days of yore.
I must have been looking to brawl, or incite a riot.
But then the head of a small family group threw me a line. First gen Venezuelans.
The patria chimed in asking "what about family?"
And I spoke of generations not divvied up into boomers, X's, millennials, not looking for their respective pieces of The American Dole-Dream, but of the old Hallmark cards & Norman Rockwell family values that exist in hard places like Venezuela - but not in soft serve bribery & hard scoop veterinarian places like USA.
Well, all will be well now. The deus ex machina Dukes of Moral Hazzard are gonna fire up the General Lee & jump the sharks & quit that old definition of insanity.
Very old: Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur