tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post9192812229623448355..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-69100580456422001652012-06-27T14:55:29.089-04:002012-06-27T14:55:29.089-04:00.Ducky,
I'm much in sympathy with the sentime....Ducky,<br /><br />I'm much in sympathy with the sentiments expressed in that piece of Brecht. In my own way I said much the same thing in honor of Labor Day back in 1996.<br /><br />Take a look. It may sound too "pat," but i meant every word. No one knows better than I that no army –– and no nation –– can run properly or survive very long staffed by nothing but leaders and executives.<br /><br />The corollary is true too, however. No organized entity could function well and survive long without talented, dedicated leadership.<br /><br />Not to wax trite, but all of us need each other desperately. That still doesn't mean, however, that all of us are equal. We all have roles to play. <br /><br /> <i>Primary Sources<br /><br /><b>L</b>ook well upon the men who dig in mines,<br /><b>A</b>nd work machines in mills and factories grim.<br /><b>B</b>e aware that those who tend the vines <br /><b>O</b>r till the soil give much for wages slim.<br /><b>R</b>eaping sowing, weeding hoeing make<br /><b>F</b>ull the nation’s store of nutriment.<br /><b>O</b>verland the burly truckers take<br /><b>R</b>ich provisions and accoutrement<br /><b>C</b>oast to coast. The teamsters load and haul<br /><b>E</b>normous hordes of stuff that we’ve empowered,<br /><b>S</b>hipped in freighters, stored in silos tall,<br /><b>D</b>elivered, well-displayed, and then devoured.<br /><b>A</b>wards are due to goods and who supplies them,<br /><b>Y</b>et the wise despise the guys who advertise them.</i><br /><br />~ by FreeThinke - The Sandpiper, Summer, 1996FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-2658951413812399112012-06-27T12:06:03.304-04:002012-06-27T12:06:03.304-04:00Questions From a Worker Who Reads
Who built Thebe...Questions From a Worker Who Reads<br /><br />Who built Thebes of the seven gates?<br />In the books you will find the names of kings.<br />Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?<br />And Babylon, many times demolished<br />Who raised it up so many times? In what houses<br />of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?<br />Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished<br />Did the masons go? Great Rome<br />Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom<br />Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song<br />Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even in fabled Atlantis<br />The night the ocean engulfed it<br />The drowning still bawled for their slaves.<br /><br />The young Alexander conquered India.<br />Was he alone?<br />Caesar beat the Gauls.<br />Did he not have even a cook with him?<br /><br />Philip of Spain wept when his armada<br />Went down. Was he the only one to weep?<br />Frederick the Second won the Seven Year's War. Who<br />Else won it?<br /><br />Every page a victory.<br />Who cooked the feast for the victors?<br />Every ten years a great man?<br />Who paid the bill?<br /><br />So many reports.<br />So many questions.<br /><br /><br />Bertolt BrechtDucky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-21305957444001229082012-06-27T06:16:20.622-04:002012-06-27T06:16:20.622-04:00FT,
Have election years always been this filled wi...FT,<br />Have election years always been this filled with animosity on the part of all sides?<br /><br />Maybe so, but I don't remember it being that way.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-95953545424875272012-06-26T22:16:39.968-04:002012-06-26T22:16:39.968-04:00Thank you for stopping by, Canardo.
You always ma...Thank you for stopping by, Canardo.<br /><br />You always make the rest of us look even better than we are by contrast.<br /><br />Thanks for providing a bit of <i>scura</i> to further brighten our already dazzling <i>chiaro</i>.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-8863950765813706452012-06-26T20:20:26.951-04:002012-06-26T20:20:26.951-04:00Reminds me of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead ...Reminds me of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited".<br /><br />Although I've always felt he was criticizing the corrupt upper class.<br /><br />Go back to cataloging The Spoils of Poynton, Freethinker.<br />And pretend you have the aptitude to appreciate them.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-80993266728228182962012-06-26T19:33:47.686-04:002012-06-26T19:33:47.686-04:00Thank you very much, RN. I hope we will be able to...Thank you very much, RN. I hope we will be able to get better and better, and not lose our "cool."<br /><br />Not easy in an election season, is it?<br /><br />Thanks for visiting.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-7660384666848052822012-06-26T19:06:54.068-04:002012-06-26T19:06:54.068-04:00Ah, Pogo!
I read that newspaper comic on a regula...Ah, Pogo!<br /><br />I read that newspaper comic on a regular basis.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-74898563477116776482012-06-26T17:28:36.259-04:002012-06-26T17:28:36.259-04:00Free Thinker...
First, I humbly tip my hat to you...Free Thinker...<br /><br />First, I humbly tip my hat to you sir. You are as wise as you are intelligent. <br /><br />Second, I shall certainly return, often. As well as encourage others to visit this fine and non partisan site.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-53120992831249172252012-06-26T14:15:28.331-04:002012-06-26T14:15:28.331-04:00Thinking of Ducky?
Not really, my friend, althoug...Thinking of Ducky?<br /><br />Not really, my friend, although much of what I said could apply, but in truth it applies to just about everyone. The urge to engage in conflict seems universal. I think it's time we get wise to ourselves and moved on to greener, more tranquil pastures where the <i>beauties</i> of Nature are abundantly apparent, and one might hope to encounter fewer "Pasture Pies." ;-)<br /><br />If you want to know the truth, I try to think of The Malignant Muscovy as little as possible –– not because I "hate" him, but because I feel sorry for him. He depresses me. It must be terrible to live a life where the best thing you could find to amuse yourself is effectively pooping in other peoples' pastures.<br /><br />The cattle have a good excuse -- they're just being what Nature intended them to be. It's sad when a human being does his best to lose touch with his humanity, and seems happy to act the part of a suppurating boil on the butt of Civility.<br /><br />Thanks for your visit. Please tell others they're more tan welcome to voice their opinions here –– as long as they're sincere.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-61806080218859758632012-06-26T12:45:01.554-04:002012-06-26T12:45:01.554-04:00You were thinking of Ducky when you wrote this, we...You were thinking of Ducky when you wrote this, weren't you?Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.com