15-12-2010, 04:59 PM
I recently read some piece of fiction -- my wife reads the fiction, I handle the non-fiction, but to keep peace in the household I occasionally read something she insists that I read (the last one by an author writing about Napoleon's hidden gold whom she swore was probably reading my blog, a comment about my comments about the history of the Fed) -- about the Thule Gesselschaft and some mysterious Nordic family, a book hidden in Charlemagne's crypt, a trip to Antarctica... perhaps I am confusing plots, which is why I stick to non-fiction, but if I find the book in our vast piles, I shall bring it to our attention. A simple Google of some of those terms and names will give you some mind-boggling reading, such as this:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/branto...mega01.htm
But, to use one of Encho's favorite phrases, I digress...
Having read the first two drafts of Encho's piece, and the same book, and much of the same background, I have little to add to the piece except to share my response to his sentiments expressed at the very end of his piece:
I am "rowing" as fast as I can. I am reading and researching to the extent possible, trying to focus and develop a laser-like insight and intuition as to what is important. Heretofore, I'd been given over to crossing textual swords with nay-sayers, disinformation artistes, the confused, and the supporters of the evil. I find I am out-numbered, over-run by a flood of sewage pumped into the system for the purpose of creating mind fog.
"The responsibility in stopping this all lies with us", says Encho, and I cannot disagree. The people are sovereign. I reminded Ed of an old New Yorker cartoon showing a bank of slaves' rowing a trireme in front of a hooded fellow with a long bullwhip, and a suggestion box hanging off the gunwale.
If "we" are "to be tenacious in researching - and reporting", I re-iterate that we need some mechanism like an atrial pacing device that is going to organize and synchronize our efforts for maximal 'ejection fraction'.
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We are going to have to think outside the box.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/branto...mega01.htm
But, to use one of Encho's favorite phrases, I digress...
Having read the first two drafts of Encho's piece, and the same book, and much of the same background, I have little to add to the piece except to share my response to his sentiments expressed at the very end of his piece:
I am "rowing" as fast as I can. I am reading and researching to the extent possible, trying to focus and develop a laser-like insight and intuition as to what is important. Heretofore, I'd been given over to crossing textual swords with nay-sayers, disinformation artistes, the confused, and the supporters of the evil. I find I am out-numbered, over-run by a flood of sewage pumped into the system for the purpose of creating mind fog.
"The responsibility in stopping this all lies with us", says Encho, and I cannot disagree. The people are sovereign. I reminded Ed of an old New Yorker cartoon showing a bank of slaves' rowing a trireme in front of a hooded fellow with a long bullwhip, and a suggestion box hanging off the gunwale.
If "we" are "to be tenacious in researching - and reporting", I re-iterate that we need some mechanism like an atrial pacing device that is going to organize and synchronize our efforts for maximal 'ejection fraction'.
We are going to have to think outside the box.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"