tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5091993770357122719..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The World AheadThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-17157229502040619732020-09-11T10:31:49.259-07:002020-09-11T10:31:49.259-07:00A big factor, Owen, is that there's no uniform...A big factor, Owen, is that there's no uniformity to these emergencies. There's a deep discrepancy in how nations will experience these emergencies and when and how resilient or vulnerable they will be to one or all of these threats. <br /><br />We have what I've come to call a 'latitudinal buffer' to some of the immediate emergencies, especially given our willingness to write off the Arctic. We have vast oceans to insulate us from mass migration and the US as a bulwark to the south, Latin America. <br /><br />We can and are biding our time. In these emergencies time is a real asset. Would that we were putting that resource to good use to bolster our resilience, rehabilitate our essential infrastructure, reshape our economy and our society to withstand the shocks. Instead we're the little piggy with the straw house.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89984036858236552802020-09-11T10:24:41.830-07:002020-09-11T10:24:41.830-07:00Sal, conservative pundit, David Brooks, has an int...Sal, conservative pundit, David Brooks, has an interesting column today in which he laments that the United States, like Trump, no longer has any heart.<br /><br />"Through his own failures, Trump illustrates by counterexample that the heart is the key to understanding. To accurately size up a human situation you have to project a certain quality of attention that is personal, gentle, respectful, intimate and affectionate — more moving with and feeling into than simply observing with detachment. <br /><br />"Maybe I spend too much time on Twitter and in media, but I see less and less of this sort of attention in America, even amid the tragedies of 2020. Far from softening toward one another, the whole country feels even more rived, more hardened and increasingly blind to lives other than our own."<br /><br />I'm not particularly fond of Brooks, too often a Republican apologist. However I think he is accurate in his description of America's hopelessly calcified society. Even if the Dems sweep Congress and the White House the deeply divided society may remain mortally irreconcilable. What then?The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39333010210461681492020-09-11T08:30:44.710-07:002020-09-11T08:30:44.710-07:00All of these emergencies require collective action...All of these emergencies require collective action, Mound. Yet we are incapable of acting collectively.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3329985345381958782020-09-11T06:39:55.017-07:002020-09-11T06:39:55.017-07:00.. I think we hold our breath re Trump Inc stealin..... I think we hold our breath re Trump Inc stealing this election<br />Then go with Plan A or Plan B.. and roll in the Covid-19 aspects<br />Maybe an asteroid will hit Trump and Pence <br />But mass Environmental Migration we should expect<br />At that point 'National Defence' will take on real meaningthe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.com