It took me a long time to realize how special small town America was. Of all the places I've lived, my favorite was a small town. They were walkable and bike-able. They had a personality and identity of their own. 15 min cities will no doubt be cookie cutter corporate mini mart communities. I guess I'll always get to keep the memories of what once was.
Heck, I remember when flying coach was an adventure and fun as opposed to the root canal it is today. How America didn't boycott airports after the implementation of TSA is beyond me. Just a bunch of sheep. Knowing that, I was still shocked 200 million got the toxic injection. And Trump is still touting how he got it rushed to production as if he did something good.
I'm going to contemplate this while sitting on the porch listening to birds and sipping coffee.
You and I, Mr. Dinh, may be the last two Americans that have read the writings of Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs. And I haven't read much of Ms. Jacobs but what I did read impressed me.
We have a park here in Bridgeport (in fact there are several; Bridgeport is know as the Park City), Seaside Park that I believe was designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted, the man who designed Central Park in Manhattan. There is a metal plaque in the Park indicating it was designed in 1865. The only mistake the planners made -- and it was a big one -- was to build roads through the Park so cars could access it. Although, presumably, when the Park was constructed the roads were limited to horses and buggys.
"Black crime." As if no other such crime exist. Further, you disembody it from its historical roots, its fertilizer, its centuries deep soil--slavery, racism, Jim Crowism, bigotry, disenfranchisement, sanctioned murder, etc.--and give a pass to what has made it so--centuries of Western/Anglo-Saxon destruction, serial genocides, enslavement, torture, annihilation (see Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Asia, Africa writ whole, the Americas (North and South) writ whole, etc.), and centuries-long, economic oblivion (see unemployment rate 50% or greater for Black youth).
Do you think that one would exist without the other. And what 'crime' does the most damage? Black crime wherein its own and those who are approximate are the predominantly ravaged (see System)? Or imperial crime that simultaneously engages low/high intensity warfare--disempowering and murdering and denying opportunity to the 'lessor' (read Black and White poor and Native, etc) nationally and worldwide, whilst also eviscerating the middle classes, nationally and worldwide, regardless of skin color (see exporting jobs), dumbing down via 'education' the entire population, regardless of skin color (all the better to control), restricting rights and privileges and sending the poor disenfranchised, regardless of skin color, off to die for the MIC, the banks, and their overlords.
I am old enough to remember when most of it began. When mysterious men introduced drugs into the neighborhoods of 'color' (see parallel of Alcohol to Native Americans) from distant shores via governmental airplanes (see intelligence and military), for free at first and then how decades later the ravages, the crimes, the burnout, the drug wars, the lost lives, the murdered champions, etc. all together destroyed the future (see urban blight, plight, destruction, crime, etc.). Look to the catalyst, follow the money, and there you will find the answer and not the propaganda, not the scapegoat.
You are a smart man, Linh, but you're stuck, when you refer to "Black Crime", in a socio-biologically false paradigm. It is a paradigm financed, built, and maintained by the selfsame folks who began the destruction/annihilation of the world nearly five centuries ago, with the blessing of the church mind you, and who subsequently coined the concept of 'race', with themselves on top, of course. And then they, the most 'civilized', the most 'advanced', the most 'cultured', the most 'human' went about, literally, destroying the world. What you see, regardless of where you look today, across the wide world, is the aftermath of that five hundred year reign and the ongoing destruction, whether it be in disintegrating neighborhoods, towns, cities, states, nations or the destruction of the truth via censorship, cancelling, propaganda, lies, and a complete rewriting of history.
Bereft of opportunity, education, access, hope, seen as lessor for centuries(!), as "human animals", what should their lot be? Is understanding, empathy, awareness, wisdom truly extinct? There are excuses and there are truths. To focus on "Black Crime" to the extent and degree of all other crimes and the greatest crimes of all is, indeed, small.
while I agree with you that black crime is a product of a systematic project by the blob, they were successful enough to make it a problem for everyone in the US. I never met a black person till my father hired them in his lawn mowing business in 1960. I found them to be nicer and better workers than the poor whites who would work for the low wages my father paid because he was a bad businessman. I was the token white in a 16 piece soul band and found out how odd it feels to be a different color skin than anyone else in the room. Later in a black band from a better neighborhood I found them the nastiest musicians I ever played with and quit after almost being killed by junkies when we played in the worst black ghetto in Pittsburgh. I never had a problem with the black people in the rooms these bands played in or the black jazz musicians I later played with. However listening to a Wilson Pickett concert when I was upset at breaking up with my girlfriend I was beaten up by 10 or 12 12 year olds who were upset at me having only a few cents in my pockets. Living in a slum in Baltimore I was robbed walking back from the grocery store. I had only a few dollars in my pocket as I had put the larger bills in my sock. Living in the worst slum in Boston, Roxbury, my car was burned up by little kids in the neighborhood. I still do as I have always done and base my judgements of the people I deal with on how their interactions with me work out. Black crime is mostly a problem for the black inhabitants in their inner city ghettos but with guns and cars a problem for most everyone living in the US.
I grew up in a black ghetto, several actually, and was, indeed, subject to my own trials and tribulations. My mom, however, of a generation that still very much valued education, sent me out of the neighborhood to a private catholic school three city buses away, on the other side of town. The school provided me with the opportunity and the education and the access that was necessary for me to move forward in the world and to dream. And yes, as I mentioned, black crime is a problem, mostly, for folks who live in the ghettos.
Again, the crime of crimes as perpetrated by the powerful, the ever-greedy, the sociopaths, the psychopaths, the empire are the true and most egregious crimes that affect us all and on a daily and ongoing basis. Most have simply become inured, accustomed to them, yet they are far more pernicious and totalitarian and disempowering and deadly than all the collective 'black crime' (see poverty, drugs (legal, illegal), job exportation, inflation, stagnant wages, homelessness, hopelessness, etc.). Black crime is but a symptom of the overarching disease--empire.
I agree. Black crime pales in comparison to those of the British empire and the US empire or Israel in modern times. Other European colonizers were just as bad especially the Belgians in the Congo with Western instigated plunder and violence still killing millions there. These crimes are mostly done to brown and yellow people but black crime is done to Americans who don't notice the bigger international crimes instigated by the West. With the demise of the USSR American workers are dismissed by the establishment as they no longer care about making their lives better than Soviet workers. Even the solidly white middle class is being eliminated by the globalists. I am amazed at how most US citizens still believe what the mainstream tells them - getting the jab and believing man made CO2 is a pollutant causing a climate catastrophe while inequality continues growing. The elites now believe they have solved the problem of "who ya gonna get to do the dirty work when all the slaves are free." They believe AI and robotics have advanced to the point where "they" don't need us anymore. Kinda difficult to get 7 billion people holding their children's hands to line up above the pits to be shot. Much easier to get people to line up to get vaccinated - billions did. This time their eugenics program just killed the elderly and unhealthy. Although with the jab even healthy soccer players are falling dead on the playing field.
Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Joyce, Carole Oates (where did that last come
from? ) You are on form. thank you x10.
g.
I can't agree depressing, these concentrated haiku are like confected bullets of apercu. Perhaps not smooth reading like the london music radio station....
I was struck by the last "suggestion," Linh. Nuclear war perhaps, and then we all return to "normal." Not exactly what you said but we all know that the "basics" are lurking under our artificially constructed lives here in the West. Just a good reminder about our human essence, truly dust to dust.
The root of so much turmoil right now is depletion of resources, so normality will, at best, entail having less of everything. The alternative is an abrupt plunge into hell, such as happening to the people of Gaza. Globalists decide. Mostly clueless, we're enacted upon.
It took me a long time to realize how special small town America was. Of all the places I've lived, my favorite was a small town. They were walkable and bike-able. They had a personality and identity of their own. 15 min cities will no doubt be cookie cutter corporate mini mart communities. I guess I'll always get to keep the memories of what once was.
Heck, I remember when flying coach was an adventure and fun as opposed to the root canal it is today. How America didn't boycott airports after the implementation of TSA is beyond me. Just a bunch of sheep. Knowing that, I was still shocked 200 million got the toxic injection. And Trump is still touting how he got it rushed to production as if he did something good.
I'm going to contemplate this while sitting on the porch listening to birds and sipping coffee.
You and I, Mr. Dinh, may be the last two Americans that have read the writings of Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs. And I haven't read much of Ms. Jacobs but what I did read impressed me.
We have a park here in Bridgeport (in fact there are several; Bridgeport is know as the Park City), Seaside Park that I believe was designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted, the man who designed Central Park in Manhattan. There is a metal plaque in the Park indicating it was designed in 1865. The only mistake the planners made -- and it was a big one -- was to build roads through the Park so cars could access it. Although, presumably, when the Park was constructed the roads were limited to horses and buggys.
another good one Linh
Dear Linh,
"Black crime." As if no other such crime exist. Further, you disembody it from its historical roots, its fertilizer, its centuries deep soil--slavery, racism, Jim Crowism, bigotry, disenfranchisement, sanctioned murder, etc.--and give a pass to what has made it so--centuries of Western/Anglo-Saxon destruction, serial genocides, enslavement, torture, annihilation (see Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Asia, Africa writ whole, the Americas (North and South) writ whole, etc.), and centuries-long, economic oblivion (see unemployment rate 50% or greater for Black youth).
Do you think that one would exist without the other. And what 'crime' does the most damage? Black crime wherein its own and those who are approximate are the predominantly ravaged (see System)? Or imperial crime that simultaneously engages low/high intensity warfare--disempowering and murdering and denying opportunity to the 'lessor' (read Black and White poor and Native, etc) nationally and worldwide, whilst also eviscerating the middle classes, nationally and worldwide, regardless of skin color (see exporting jobs), dumbing down via 'education' the entire population, regardless of skin color (all the better to control), restricting rights and privileges and sending the poor disenfranchised, regardless of skin color, off to die for the MIC, the banks, and their overlords.
I am old enough to remember when most of it began. When mysterious men introduced drugs into the neighborhoods of 'color' (see parallel of Alcohol to Native Americans) from distant shores via governmental airplanes (see intelligence and military), for free at first and then how decades later the ravages, the crimes, the burnout, the drug wars, the lost lives, the murdered champions, etc. all together destroyed the future (see urban blight, plight, destruction, crime, etc.). Look to the catalyst, follow the money, and there you will find the answer and not the propaganda, not the scapegoat.
You are a smart man, Linh, but you're stuck, when you refer to "Black Crime", in a socio-biologically false paradigm. It is a paradigm financed, built, and maintained by the selfsame folks who began the destruction/annihilation of the world nearly five centuries ago, with the blessing of the church mind you, and who subsequently coined the concept of 'race', with themselves on top, of course. And then they, the most 'civilized', the most 'advanced', the most 'cultured', the most 'human' went about, literally, destroying the world. What you see, regardless of where you look today, across the wide world, is the aftermath of that five hundred year reign and the ongoing destruction, whether it be in disintegrating neighborhoods, towns, cities, states, nations or the destruction of the truth via censorship, cancelling, propaganda, lies, and a complete rewriting of history.
Bereft of opportunity, education, access, hope, seen as lessor for centuries(!), as "human animals", what should their lot be? Is understanding, empathy, awareness, wisdom truly extinct? There are excuses and there are truths. To focus on "Black Crime" to the extent and degree of all other crimes and the greatest crimes of all is, indeed, small.
Sincerely,
K.E.
while I agree with you that black crime is a product of a systematic project by the blob, they were successful enough to make it a problem for everyone in the US. I never met a black person till my father hired them in his lawn mowing business in 1960. I found them to be nicer and better workers than the poor whites who would work for the low wages my father paid because he was a bad businessman. I was the token white in a 16 piece soul band and found out how odd it feels to be a different color skin than anyone else in the room. Later in a black band from a better neighborhood I found them the nastiest musicians I ever played with and quit after almost being killed by junkies when we played in the worst black ghetto in Pittsburgh. I never had a problem with the black people in the rooms these bands played in or the black jazz musicians I later played with. However listening to a Wilson Pickett concert when I was upset at breaking up with my girlfriend I was beaten up by 10 or 12 12 year olds who were upset at me having only a few cents in my pockets. Living in a slum in Baltimore I was robbed walking back from the grocery store. I had only a few dollars in my pocket as I had put the larger bills in my sock. Living in the worst slum in Boston, Roxbury, my car was burned up by little kids in the neighborhood. I still do as I have always done and base my judgements of the people I deal with on how their interactions with me work out. Black crime is mostly a problem for the black inhabitants in their inner city ghettos but with guns and cars a problem for most everyone living in the US.
I remember being chased by black kids with sticks in Roxbury in 1984,luckily I got away unharmed.
I grew up in a black ghetto, several actually, and was, indeed, subject to my own trials and tribulations. My mom, however, of a generation that still very much valued education, sent me out of the neighborhood to a private catholic school three city buses away, on the other side of town. The school provided me with the opportunity and the education and the access that was necessary for me to move forward in the world and to dream. And yes, as I mentioned, black crime is a problem, mostly, for folks who live in the ghettos.
Again, the crime of crimes as perpetrated by the powerful, the ever-greedy, the sociopaths, the psychopaths, the empire are the true and most egregious crimes that affect us all and on a daily and ongoing basis. Most have simply become inured, accustomed to them, yet they are far more pernicious and totalitarian and disempowering and deadly than all the collective 'black crime' (see poverty, drugs (legal, illegal), job exportation, inflation, stagnant wages, homelessness, hopelessness, etc.). Black crime is but a symptom of the overarching disease--empire.
I agree. Black crime pales in comparison to those of the British empire and the US empire or Israel in modern times. Other European colonizers were just as bad especially the Belgians in the Congo with Western instigated plunder and violence still killing millions there. These crimes are mostly done to brown and yellow people but black crime is done to Americans who don't notice the bigger international crimes instigated by the West. With the demise of the USSR American workers are dismissed by the establishment as they no longer care about making their lives better than Soviet workers. Even the solidly white middle class is being eliminated by the globalists. I am amazed at how most US citizens still believe what the mainstream tells them - getting the jab and believing man made CO2 is a pollutant causing a climate catastrophe while inequality continues growing. The elites now believe they have solved the problem of "who ya gonna get to do the dirty work when all the slaves are free." They believe AI and robotics have advanced to the point where "they" don't need us anymore. Kinda difficult to get 7 billion people holding their children's hands to line up above the pits to be shot. Much easier to get people to line up to get vaccinated - billions did. This time their eugenics program just killed the elderly and unhealthy. Although with the jab even healthy soccer players are falling dead on the playing field.
Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Joyce, Carole Oates (where did that last come
from? ) You are on form. thank you x10.
g.
I can't agree depressing, these concentrated haiku are like confected bullets of apercu. Perhaps not smooth reading like the london music radio station....
I was struck by the last "suggestion," Linh. Nuclear war perhaps, and then we all return to "normal." Not exactly what you said but we all know that the "basics" are lurking under our artificially constructed lives here in the West. Just a good reminder about our human essence, truly dust to dust.
Hi Gina,
The root of so much turmoil right now is depletion of resources, so normality will, at best, entail having less of everything. The alternative is an abrupt plunge into hell, such as happening to the people of Gaza. Globalists decide. Mostly clueless, we're enacted upon.
Linh
Beautiful. Masterly.
g.
Very depressing reading mate. Any more hopeful predictions?