Saturday 7 November 2020

Post No. 1,696 - Posts from my Other Blogs

This week I have made the following posts on my other blogs:

Political Musings of Kayleen:

  • On the USA
    Further to this post of mine, on the 1968 DNC aka “police” (at the orders of Chicago's Mayor Daley) riots, I have watched a miniseries about John Adams, and then, today, come across this excellent article by the renowned and very capable Stan Grant, relating this year’s US presidential election back to what happened in 1968.
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  • Corporations, decisions, and the changing social/world climate
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    One of the points discussed in the film “On the Basis of Sex“, about the early life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (and it is probably in the book I have of RBG's legal pleadings before and decisions on the US Supreme Courts, but, again, limited time so I haven't tracked that down yet), is that while courts should not be subject to the (ephemeral) weather of a time, they are (or should be) subject to the climate - that is, longer term changes in basic values (norms) of “the times”.
    RBG used this principle to argue that it was not necessary to overturn the prior precedents on gender (or sex, as it was often mis-termed back then), but that the changed climate of society meant a new precedent should be established.
    In the same way, I argue that the changed conditions of today's world mean corporations making decisions solely on the basis of profit (money) are no longer appropriate
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  • The USA
    Content warning: I am going to let rip in this.
    As I write this, the results of the US presidential election hangs in the balance. My assessment is that there has been a late surge in support for #45, particularly on the day that they voted. On top of that, a conspiracy fantasist has been elected!
    If fascism hasn't won, it has come a close second to stupidity - or paranoia.
    Too many yanks are, frankly, insane about any hint or suggestions of “socialism”  - which, to them, can ONLY mean the full blown, authoritarian dictatorship of the type seen in the USSR
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  • Teachers: a criticism
    You cannot be what you cannot see.
    In many ways, in many situations, that is true - or true up to a point.
    When I was at high school, my English teacher urged me to consider a writing career, and I've often wondered - regret is too strong a term - how my life would have been had I followed that suggestion.
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  • Why we should care about: the USA
    In a nutshell, we should care about what happens in the USA because the people there are still human beings - many almost out of their minds with fear, albeit fear based on falsehoods, but fear nevertheless.
    This is no different to caring for those living under the oppression of the USSR, Idi Amin, or Mugabe - the errors of the State or a few leaders do not put their victims beyond the pale,
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Musings of Kayleen:

  • Surrender, about accepting the constraints of my ageing, and the limits of what I have tried - and failed - to do;

My online candles blog:

My (near) daily candles for:     (1) peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, justice, social equity, and good governance,     (2) those killed, harmed or affected by violent extremist attacks, atrocities or violence, and managing the risk of same,     (3) those - human and animal - killed, harmed or affected by disasters including the climate crisis and the COVID-10 pandemic,     and     (4) those killed, harmed or affected by bushfires,     are at:

 

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