Your writing has always given me comfort and encouragement. Your pieces this week are compelling. The "likes and comments" you get are historically less in number than I wish they were. However, the famous line from "Field of Dreams" gives me hope. If you build it they will come! Keep building it Michael! They will come!
Haven't seen any mention of Code Pink since the first Trump years. I see it's been taken over as a Chinese front organization. Meanwhile, China has been taken over by state capitalism -- not Marxist or Communist, aside from the Party name, which is now as distant from the reality as is the name of the "Republican" Party. China is not Communist; it's fascist, just like Russia, just like the Trumpists aspire to. The bulk of the American left favors something like the Scandinavian examples, not state capitalism. There's no horde of Communists here.
“The truth does not lie in the middle. The truth lies where the truth lies, which is sometimes on the right and sometimes on the left and sometimes nowhere on the inherited spectrum at all.”
Thank you Michael for the clarifications and sagacious advice. This statement especially rings true for me. Yet, I’ve always missed the point!
I am often wrong, and strive to be the best version of myself; no different than our founding fathers views, and their beliefs for a more perfect union—-In both cases, a work in progress—and hopefully our Union won’t have an expiration date as we mere mortals.
Furthermore, I’ve always felt homeless politically because I don’t fit neatly into either camp—although I’ve always believed the republicans were more cruel and incompetent; yet, in the end they all serve the same masters!
These recent newsletters are actually hitting home. I choose to walk in the middle, and will be less hostile towards those who have made bad and worse choices—politically, as politics is a game of addition, not subtraction, and my treatment of others and attitude are critical aspects for success.
Thanks again, brilliant writing, and well received!
On a different note, as for Celicia Blair’s comment—I read it and it was brilliant; again, your point was lost on me in the translation when I read your initial newsletter. Honestly, I hated philosophy in college and probably should have paid a bit more attention to it—as it’s piquing my interests and curiosity—currently.
FYI: Sarah O’Brian’s response to another comment on the same thread, was amazing as well!
Your writing has always given me comfort and encouragement. Your pieces this week are compelling. The "likes and comments" you get are historically less in number than I wish they were. However, the famous line from "Field of Dreams" gives me hope. If you build it they will come! Keep building it Michael! They will come!
Haven't seen any mention of Code Pink since the first Trump years. I see it's been taken over as a Chinese front organization. Meanwhile, China has been taken over by state capitalism -- not Marxist or Communist, aside from the Party name, which is now as distant from the reality as is the name of the "Republican" Party. China is not Communist; it's fascist, just like Russia, just like the Trumpists aspire to. The bulk of the American left favors something like the Scandinavian examples, not state capitalism. There's no horde of Communists here.
It has been a great week. Thanks!
“The truth does not lie in the middle. The truth lies where the truth lies, which is sometimes on the right and sometimes on the left and sometimes nowhere on the inherited spectrum at all.”
Thank you Michael for the clarifications and sagacious advice. This statement especially rings true for me. Yet, I’ve always missed the point!
I am often wrong, and strive to be the best version of myself; no different than our founding fathers views, and their beliefs for a more perfect union—-In both cases, a work in progress—and hopefully our Union won’t have an expiration date as we mere mortals.
Furthermore, I’ve always felt homeless politically because I don’t fit neatly into either camp—although I’ve always believed the republicans were more cruel and incompetent; yet, in the end they all serve the same masters!
These recent newsletters are actually hitting home. I choose to walk in the middle, and will be less hostile towards those who have made bad and worse choices—politically, as politics is a game of addition, not subtraction, and my treatment of others and attitude are critical aspects for success.
Thanks again, brilliant writing, and well received!
On a different note, as for Celicia Blair’s comment—I read it and it was brilliant; again, your point was lost on me in the translation when I read your initial newsletter. Honestly, I hated philosophy in college and probably should have paid a bit more attention to it—as it’s piquing my interests and curiosity—currently.
FYI: Sarah O’Brian’s response to another comment on the same thread, was amazing as well!
@JohnCRaines
Keep building it Michael!
Agreed...
fabulous week of writing!