No Time to Spare
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duckducker2022-11-13The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability. He is drawn to my orange tea mug.The big black heavy cattle munch and breathe and gaze, each with its following of small black birds. All living things work hard to make their living.I sit on the rough black steps and try to tell the secret that they keep. But I cannot.They keep it.
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duckducker2022-11-13People love pretense, and love ritual, and need both.
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duckducker2022-11-12The power of male group solidarity must come from the control and channeling of male rivalry, the repression and concentration of the hormone-driven will to dominate that so often dominates men themselves. It is a remarkable reversal. The destructive, anarchic energy of individual rivalry and competitive ambition is diverted into loyalty to group and leader and directed to more or less constructive social enterprise.
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duckducker2022-11-11Respect has often been overenforced and almost universally misplaced (the poor must respect the rich, all women must respect all men, etc.). But when applied in moderation and with judgment, the social requirement of respectful behavior to others, by repressing aggression and requiring self-control, makes room for understanding. It creates a space where appreciation and affection can grow.
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苏诺2019-05-04Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous. Nursed for its own sake, valued as an end in itself, it loses its goal. It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself., destroying its host in the process. The racism, misogyny, and counter-rationality of the reactionary right in American politics for the last several years is a frightening exhibition of the destructive force of anger deliberately nourished by hate, encouraged to rule thought, invited to control behavior.