La Palice style Method for recent Presidents
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It's not just the USA, but since I'm from Turtle Island it's just good manners to start there. But the uselessness of official world leaders[6] for decent purposes isn't just a USA phenomena: other countries have nuclear bombs and clogging dams. It's not even just a male thing: look at Nancy Pelosi at the COP (Conference of Polluters) conference. We need policy directed by people like Linda Pentz Gunter [7] and the Empire Files quetstioner[8] at the COPs conference. I had here the name Nancy Pelosi and never saw her mouth move and let sounds come out before. There was always this aura that somehow, because she is not as awful as Trump or various Republicans, that she is not terrrible. See her leaves the same impression that seeing Tokyo's Koike does. One of the impressions left by the 6-hour documentary Minamata Mandala is the Koike and the bureaucrats do their best to be machine parts rather than human beings. They discarded their ability to contemplate their activity, to reflect and think about what would be the decent thing that they should be doing....
Ode to Trump-Biden-Obama-Kennedy-Bush [1]
When they talk,
Words come out of their mouths.
When before the camera,
They are on the screen.
They were single,
Before they got married.
They were in school,
Before they left. [2]
The became president,
After they were elected. [3]
Their bombs exploded,
After they detonated.
The people in their prisons,
Are not free.
Their victims felt pain,
When they were tortured.[4]
Their enemies died,
When their hearts stopped. [5]
May the Presidents survive,
Until the days of their deaths
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_La_Palice#The_de_la_Monnoye_version
- [1] The all look the same to me: Trump, Biden, Obama, Kennedy, Bush.
- [2] "Before they graduated" would that be accurate for Bush and Trump? The others seem more intelligent(?) but even the "articulate"(Biden on) Obama is said to have not done must more than edit a law journal as a scholar… Few great dear leaders can write much, I guess. I think Castoriadis somewhere mentions somewhere how Stalin's stuff is unreadable…
- [3] Well, maybe not Bush the first time against Gore. Gore was lucky to lose so he could do decent environmental work attemping to save people instead of State-work warring towards extinction.
- [4] Probably for a long time aftewards too. Serious innjuries tend to keep pain around. It's not like the movies where people look the same after suffering a concussions from trauma to the head, or run around the same as ever after getting shot, or knived: Look at all the people that can barely walk after a civilian hernia. War wounds and long periods tied into awkward positions are probabl worse than hernias, and then people go crazy from someting as innocuous-seeming as solitary confinemetn.
- [5] Seeing gloats over "Mission Accomplished" or the assassinations of Bin Laden and other "non-state"? actors always brings to mind Lao Tzu 30 and 31.
Inspired by #AlbertCamus in #MythOfSisyphus where he mentions #LaPalice as one #method of two for thinking. - [6] https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/23/the_threat_of_nuclear_war_ukraine
- Ira Helfand on Official "World Leaders"
'They make their plans as if either the weapons won’t be used or, if they are used, somehow or other it will all turn out OK. And we have always been shocked by the degree of ignorance on the part of world leaders about the potential damage that would be caused by their own nuclear arsenals.'
- https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/25/russia_seizes_1986_chernobyl_nuclear_site
- Linda Pentz Gunter: '... we need, obviously, diplomacy and not war. I’m not — that’s not my area of expertise, so I don’t know how that should be guided. Somebody asked me yesterday, “Well, why don’t they just close the nuclear power plants down as a precaution?” Which is what happens, for example, in this country if there’s a major hurricane and it’s coming directly towards a nuclear plant. Sometimes, not always, but they should, they start to power down and close the reactors down. In Ukraine, those 15 reactors are responsible for 50% of the electricity supply. So that’s really not an option right now, when you’re in the middle of potentially a full-scale war, to cut off 50% of your electricity. So they’re in a no-win situation, as we are in the wider picture with this conflict. So we have to hope that clearer heads prevail... '
- [8] https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/global_climate_wall
- Abby Martin: 'Speaker Pelosi, you just presided over a large increase in the Pentagon budget. This Pentagon budget is already massive. The Pentagon is a larger polluter than 140 countries combined. How can we seriously talk about net zero if there is this bipartisan consensus to constantly expand this large contributor to climate change?'
bs2 (@bsmall2@mstdn.jp)
One #method of the two for thinking: #LaPalisse or #LaPalice mentioned by #AlbertCamus:
"He shone like the sun
He had a mane of blond hair
He would have had no equals
Had he been the only one."
It's hard not to think of a recent #USA #president and extend the technique.
"He was in school until he left."
"He was a financial success when he made money and didn't lose more."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_La_Palice#The_de_la_Monnoye_version
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