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Post by Flatiron on Aug 2, 2011 12:28:37 GMT -5
Blah! That is really where I'm at this morning, facing the second day of August, just a few days away from one of those annual events (bday) where I consider how things have been going this year, and and what's working, and what's not, and in many ways I find that amidst the challenges I have so very much to be thankful for, and that there are many sane threads running through my otherwise rather madness filled life.
Part of that madness has come from the usual culprits, but this last couple weeks, one culprit has been the agonizing political developments in the madhouse that we call a government here. Perhaps it is time for me to do another news fast, so that I can focus on the projects I have going in my own life, rather than being agog at the national trainwreck from which it is so very hard to avert my eyes once I look.
This month I'm taking on another hundred pages of editing, both doing the paper edits and then getting those into the computer. I have discovered that my planned method (hand editing a hundred pages straight, then putting those all into the computer) has a major shortcoming, that being that during the hand editing phase I get deeply into the story and the flow of scenes, but when I go for weeks trying to do nothing but get those edits into the computer, I completely lose the 'wave' I'm surfing, and find myself becalmed. So, the plan this month is to intersperse those in a way that allows for more momentum, hopefully. Wish me luck!
Write on!
-Flatiron
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Post by marielaurent2223 on Aug 2, 2011 21:06:32 GMT -5
Good luck, on editing Flatiron.
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Post by gio on Aug 5, 2011 4:35:23 GMT -5
I heard that some American said 'we are about three years away from becoming Greece'. If this is true then America is a madhouse. But mind you. Greece tried 30 years to become 'Greece' so America tries for 27 years already.
I used not to believe politicians when they professed their surprise for the situation here. I have cut an article dated from November 1985 (25 years before the Greek crisis broke or 5 into the building up of it) in the major print publication of the country written by a philosophy professor (mind you not economist) that started like ‘The unmitigated language of economists spell it. The country is collapsing’... I was just 21 and I could see it myself and that is why I cut the clip. How come that the specialists didn’t see?
I used to believe that local politicians were just pretending and just playing their whatever games. Since I became not so sure I got scared.
I also used to believe that ‘at least Americans (and Europeans) are serious and know what they are doing though it seems that they are doing gravely wrong movements (and I don’t mean only in economics but mostly in foreign policy that is more of interest to me).
Now I a not so sure... and I feel really really really scared.
Anyway... keep editing.
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Post by Flatiron on Aug 5, 2011 15:19:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the luck Marie, I'm sure that I'll need it.
And Gio, thanks for sharing about your fears about the situation there. I think I've come to have a true sense of fear here for the same reasons: what I used to think of as silly games that were of little consequence in the end, I now see as the powerful "playing for keeps" against the rest of us as the world economic situation changes...
As for the rest of the world having the US as a backstop against silliness, 'knowing what we're doing,' I'm afraid that regardless of what I was inculcated to believe early in school about the nature of this country, the truth is that the power of those who believe in a "winner take all," zero sum view of the world, whether it is in the economic realm or in the foreign policy realm (also of more interest to me), is very strong and continuing to grow.
One thing I was reminded of the other day was that the most of the supposed "geniuses" in the economic world who are driving policy at the moment are not elder statesmen. They burn out too quickly for that, so most of them are young guys engaged in all of the stupidity that comes with the intense combination of youth, money, and power. They don't really don't know what they are doing.
The same is true for some of the economic and military extremists in our govt., so to look to any of these groups to be the global 'adults' is a dangerous place to put one's trust.
And as for what to do with the question that raises (where then do we look to put that trust), I really don't have an answer, other than to hope that eventually there will be a backlash against the extremism that will bring more sanity. Perhaps, in the economic realm, this looks more like what Iceland has done than anything else.
Best of luck over there. And in the meantime, there is truth in art, maybe especially so when the other verities that we tend to hold closely are questionable, so 'write on', however that looks for you!
-Flatiron
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Post by butterflywings on Aug 19, 2011 2:24:02 GMT -5
Ahh. Politics. 'nuff said, right? Did you at least have a good birthday? Happy very late Birthday from me! Hope the editing is going well.
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Post by gio on Aug 19, 2011 21:46:10 GMT -5
Butterfly noone likes sad things but if you close the door they will enter from the window and it will be worse. This is I believe the idea of tragedy. As Aeschylus wrote in his tragedy Agamemnon 'Keep saying bad things, but I wish good wins'. You can see the thing our cat did to a kitten in my impromptu short What's God Got To Do With It? www.youtube.com/watch?v=THyV0rXnsj4 but I warn you it is tragic. As my voice says to my shocked niece at the (untranslated) Cats & Tomcats www.youtube.com/watch?v=njB3qcoOZtI 'That is how tomcats are'. In her question 'What can be done about it?' my voice replies 'only to castrate him' and she concludes 'No. I want my tomcat a real tomcat'
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Post by butterflywings on Aug 20, 2011 12:33:30 GMT -5
Oh I'm not saying I don't deal in politics, just implying I don't involve myself in long debates about how my side/ beliefs are better than anyone else's. Life is tragedy. Anyone saying differently lives in denial. And if we wish to continue a thread on politics or existential life it probably shouldn't be on Flatiron's PPT
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