by Donald Croft Brickner
It's with an almost desperately heavy heart that this essay, to follow, is being written -- and it's so
soon between figurative “miles markers,” first suggested here less than three weeks ago.
This is all happening so quickly.
But it's not like these times weren't seen coming, well in advance. The specifics of them could have been more readily perceived ... had one's eyes merely been open to them. Mine weren't.
What's disheartening is these days have a…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on October 16, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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by Donald Croft Brickner
I am Anarchy. I speak not my truth, only yours. My name is Liar.
And with that introduction -- with its in-your-face immediacy -- we find our feet firmly implanted at
Mile Marker 1 on the first leg of our enjoined journey along
America in Collapse. We sought all of this out, however unconscious that act may have been.
In any event, now the resulting mess is ours.
If only we'd agreed somewhere along the line to begin To Speak The Truth, no…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on September 27, 2009 at 9:50pm —
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As our ongoing economic difficulties continue to haunt us -- with no actual resolution as yet in sight -- a fundamental philosophical query is surfacing, one that’s soon to demand a simple yes or no answer: “Do people matter?”
by Donald Croft Brickner
There is no feeling in the world that quite rivals the conviction that one’s personal circumstances are so dire as to be hopeless.
You’re seemingly completely alone -- without family, intimates or friends. No one cares, not even…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on May 8, 2009 at 6:44pm —
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: The essay to follow, first posted (exactly as republished here) on various Internet sites almost eight months ago, provides direct background and supportive arguments for the next essay now being written (and soon to be published), "On the Importance of 'Us:' our Forgotten Embracement Waiting in the Wings." Do note, too, how well this essay continues to stand up today:
Remember how so few Americans responded to New Orleans’ residents in their honest-to-gosh hours (and hour…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on April 28, 2009 at 10:05am —
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(EDITORIAL NOTE: This essay was first published in March 2008. It has been updated to reflect growing global incidents of misanthropy.)
We can now give “campus rampage” or workplace and church killers a name: American Misanthropes. What’s unexpectedly unsettling about them is coming to realize (a) we created them, out of a toxic pot of nihilism; (b) the incidents are beginning to spread overseas; and (c) these killers look an awful lot like us.
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on March 17, 2009 at 8:30am —
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American Big Business faces a terrible backlash: its arrogance is showing.
The major issue with the consumer is trust. It’s been lost … it won’t be easily won back -- and it’ll likely get worse. Capitalism could go on trial, and it’s ill-prepared to argue its case. Just like the rest of us, it needs a valid world view for a guidance system, and a caring healthy psychology. It lacks both. Do CEOs care? No, they do whatever they want. We should just nuke them, and put an end to their endless…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on February 3, 2009 at 9:22pm —
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Whatever you’re doing at this moment, please stop. We’re all going to sing:
Lead Vocal: “…War! -- Hyunh!! Good Gawd, Jy’all! -- What Is It Good For..?”
Chorus: “Uh-Absolut’ly Nuthin’!”
by Donald Croft Brickner
What follows in its entirety is unlikely to qualify as glum, or even unpleasant -- but due to the urgency of the topic (war v. no war) with its endless deadly disputes all over our planet, commonplace expressions of hatred and prejudice warrant some sober prelimina…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on January 13, 2009 at 11:17pm —
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According to press reports -- and even recent suggestions by President Elect Barack Obama, now less than three weeks before Christmas 2008, and precisely one month before he takes the Oath of Office -- the astute, well-meaning and determined new administration is about to make a horrid blunder: wasting what enormous tax dollars it now has at its disposal on a credit-loosening-oriented “stimulus package” intended to manipulate folks into spending money they don’t have (and likely won’t qual…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on December 11, 2008 at 11:56am —
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It’s not as if we don’t get our fair share of warnings -- as in, these Billy Joel lyrics from last century: “… Every child had a pretty good shot … to get at least as far as their old man got… Something happened on the way to that place: they threw an American flag in our face …”
-- Allentown
by Donald Croft Brickner
If there is a preposterous irony to history’s in-and-out-of-a-century’s worth of Big Shot compulsive money-making, it’s that it couldn’t survive without the Little…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on November 18, 2008 at 11:22pm —
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Remember how so few Americans responded to New Orleans’ residents in their honest-to-gosh hours (and hours, and hours) of need after Katrina? Well, that look-the-other-way behavior haunts this nation still as Americans continue to lose their houses and their jobs. What, you don’t believe in the concept of victimhood? Most of us no longer do (!) -- we’ve already got way too much on our own plates, and no one’s jumping in to help us. Still, we’re once again ignoring financially stricken neig…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on October 9, 2008 at 10:30pm —
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One would think that the most important thing on Earth these days would be to always strive to speak the truth … even if we’d tried and failed, for whatever the reasons -- we’re only human, after all. But that’s just not the case any longer. Most of us plain don’t like the truth. We don’t argue: we simply ignore that which discomforts us. It’s become a lifestyle; a highly destructive one. We’re scared, angry, very lost, and for good reason: America is collapsing right in front of our eyes…
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Added by Donald Croft Brickner on September 24, 2008 at 10:35pm —
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