#Grief_and_Loss #Civilization_Madness Today I wept at a depiction of the beheading of Sir Thomas More. “To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby … how we tend the dead is as important as how we tend the living.”

Same ol’ ‘burn the village to save the village’ reasoning — necrocapitalist, pathological, patriarchal insanity. “What has been done to our bodies has been done to our planet. The sadist exerts his control; the necrophiliac turns the living into the dead…” • Lierre Keith (Full quote & link in ALT)

#Sane_Making We’d have been good friends — just because… Simple, gentle, vulnerable, and human. 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/ryzorR2fqps?...

Point and laugh.

Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars.

Princeling Grandson (14 yo) is in the lead, and gloating about it, the booger. 😂 “You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” • Mary Oliver

A 4-minute clip! 🌟🌟🦕🌟🌟 youtu.be/4Bi0n04pm3A?...

RIP Sam Neill. Here's a room full of Germans playing the JURASSIC PARK theme on Tubas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3543fh59QqQ

One of the most memorable scenes in the history of cinema. RIP Sam Neill

Reaper!! Wrong! NOT Sam Neill. 😕 💔 The year after Jurassic Park I loved him in a tiny film called “Sirens”. (1994) We had the VHS.

It’s a comfort movie afternoon. And Arrival is one of mine. When the craziness of human doings is everywhere, way too much and all the time, Arrival eases my disquiet. I also love Ted Chiang’s novella from which the film was adapted, “The Story of Your Life”.

The powers that be tried shove that outright lie down our throats in the 60s & 70s too. youtu.be/_w2gyWE0M0k?...

Just living out the Nathan Pyle cartoon.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est ("Of the dead, nothing but good is to be said") I’m with Anne Lamott who wrote: “If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” Is Graham number 2 of an unverified two-fer?

A bit more here than just a recipe for lovely lemon ice cream… 🍋💛🍋 “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” • Henry David Thoreau open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Please watch "Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins" on Netflix if you can this weekend. It will buoy you up and give you a loving kick in the ass. It's so good I almost want to give out my Netflix password so everyone can watch it. Almost. Worth getting a month's pass for. Pure badass.

We literally have evil wealthy literally trying to take over the world. And the people are shouting at each other: “Ooh lefties.” “Ooh fascists” “Ooh libtards” “Ooh RWNJ’s” “Ooh, Woke” “Ooh Nazi’s” Humans deserve to go extinct. They are so fucking stupid!

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I’m feeling like the soul of discretion this morning. I didn’t comment as to “could care less” vs “couldn’t care less”. I thought about it for ten seconds, but scrolled on by. 😁 Contemporary art by Catherine Chauloux 🎨

Exactly 🎯 “Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.” • Douglas Hofstadter “Gödel, Escher, Bach: Eternal Golden Braid”

#Civilization_Madness “The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)” •Daniel Quinn “Beyond Civilization”

#Sane_Making #Music “I tell them there’s no hurry, I’m just sitting here doing time…” • John Lennon 🎵🖤☸️🖤🎵 “I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke.” • Isaac Asimov youtu.be/uVXR2LYeFBI?...

" …these are the people who rule the world. *Twenty-nine hundred millions of us at the mercy of a few scores of politicians, a few thousands of tycoons and generals and moneylenders. Ye are the cyanide of the earth—and the cyanide will never, never lose its savor." *2.9B when #Huxley wrote in 1962

“For ancient peoples, the soul was located in the breath or the blood. For me, soul resides at the point where our lives intersect with the timeless, in our love of goodness, our passion for beauty, our quest for meaning and truth.” www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/07/t...

“if we want to stop sexual violence, we have to confront patriarchy. If we decide we aren’t going to talk about patriarchy, then let’s stop pretending we are going to stop sexual violence and recognize that, at best, all we can do is manage the problem … “ • Robert Jensen

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And who’s surprised? We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. Mark Twain, a congressional reporter and staffer: “reported that his doctor advised him to give up the town’s lifestyle for the sake of his longevity.”

“What has been done to our bodies has been done to our planet. The sadist exerts control; the necrophiliac turns the living into the dead. The self-willed & the wild are their targets & their necrotic project is almost complete.” Lierre Keith reads The Girls & the Grasses youtu.be/E12_MgsxTI4?...

#Sane_Making #Music Judy Collins sings Lennon & McCartney. I was delighted to see her — just Judy, a grand piano & a guitar — ten-ish years ago in SoCal. A night of story and song. It was sublime. 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/13uK6uRrhPk?...

Media tip: when you’re responding to accusations of assault that include descriptions of your angry soulless eyes don’t respond to them with same look.

One photograph — a thousand words. I wonder how many people can/will allow themselves to see and understand. Squire! Fetch my codpiece! Quick!

It cracks me up how many people (mostly men) really wanted that NAZI tattoo to be the only thing Platner and his backers tried to keep hidden. That’s not the way character and attitudes, etc. are manifested in people’s lives. How human beings do anything is mostly how they do EVERYTHING.

Planet Patriarchy is now. Always was now. “Men rape old women, and they rape tiny girls in front of their mothers. In some cases, they rape with guns and metal bars. Dying women are raped. This is about power, not sex.” • Suzanne Moore

Never settle for the lesser evil, Kiddos.

In his lifetime #CarlGustavJung witnessed the totalitarian regimes of Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Mao’s China. Such horrendous systems and their police-states left no positive impression on the prescient, deeply intuitive Jung. In fact, he despised politics and politicians. He wrote:

Kevin Kruise 🏆🙌🏻 🏆

Orwell’s dystopian world was always just thinly-veiled non-fiction. Pathocracies are short on imagination, hence the perpetual wars… I have had the chapter on perpetual war saved in notes for years. Here on 4 images with ALT texts. A little light reading…

1/ Bekah Day: I want to revisit a topic I dove into last year that has lingered ever since. "Why do so many people within The MAGA Movement have a romantic partner/spouse who has died under mysterious circumstances?" No… seriously. Let’s start to break this down. Donald: The Death of Ivana Trump

“It's one thing to predict [the complete breakdown of civilization]. It's something else again to be right in the middle of it. It's a very humbling thing...” • Isaac Asimov, Nightfall

Having a dark pathological predator as head of state is metaphorically about disease (dis-ease) transmission. He’s the vector, damaging the living system, & spreading it to vulnerable people who catch the age-old mind virus sickness, either as helpers or followers. It’s all around us.

They seem to want belonging, community, regimentation, heroism and purpose. Maybe they can be rehabilitated, trained and repurposed. They could plant new forests, dismantle data centers, be deployed in teams for pot-hole fixing. The possibilities are endless.

Do you mean throughout modern human history, or just in the hundred years? Rhetorical question are such fun. 😉

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