Mar 28

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3/28/2010 9:45 AM 

You’ll have noticed that in its effort to trigger a flood of comment and consequent mass action, this blog tends towards pontification and polemic.  Sorry about that, as I would prefer a lighter touch. But I’m over-educated, and my paternal grandfather was head of the Congregational Church, two obstacles to poesy. Today the noted tendency is in full force due to a pair of articles floated across Puget Sound by Stand Up Seattle and caught by Maryrose Asher. The combined effect is devastating.

Socialist Barry Grey writes of the health bill (death pill) that in essence it is a means for mass impoverishment, a regressive law rammed through congress in spite of scattered opposition and aided by total confusion.

Canadian Chris Benjamin has totted up pandemic and irreversible health, yea even survival, problems caused by US wars in Indo China, the Middle East, and South Asia.

Images of deformed babies, ruined crop lands, and anarchy at home torment my hours. And surely as they do for some islanders. As for example Roger Fulton who is doing everything humanly possible to get islanders involved in our survival. And there is the point. With those few exceptions us islanders think we cannot do anything about the encroaching devastation and on that account are not obliged to do anything. Both thoughts are wrong.

Some prominent national voices have been insisting for a long time that the only hope for US survival is local cooperation because national responsibility has evaporated. Health care is a notable example. The point made is that local cooperation is not only a local need but happens as well to be the only hope for survival as a nation. To repeat, national responsibility has evaporated. Sweet dreams, Vashon.