September 26, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 09/26/11 Fascism
By 7:30 a.m. this morning, when I started to write notes by hand for what I remembered from my walk from Boston to Cambridge:
--Caution cones, poles, barrels and tape where there was no construction or any need for them; not as many as there where when I first got to Boston, but enough to continue to be disturbing
--A long line of Caution barrels between the concrete partitions of the highway that is behind the Back Bay T-station. They’re been there since before today. There isn’t even a pretense of there being any legitimate need for them to be there.
(Note I'm adding on September 27, 2011 @ 11:32 a.m.: The highway along which the Caution barrels are also has a sign on it that says "14'2"." That is most likely the clearance height for the overpass that goes across that highway. "14" is a code number for me, which fact the city government of Boston seems to have made use of and that highway is one that I go by frequently.)
As I was walking on the overpass above that road, a man who was probably 20 at the most was walking toward me, from the opposite direction. He saw me, and, from several feet away as he approached, rubbed his nose. I said “You must have forgotten your tissues today. That must be tough with your runny nose.” He pulled the iPod earpieces out of his ears as I was in the middle of saying that, and when I’d completed the second sentence, he said “Yeah.”
I’ve said those sentences to people before, when they’ve done what that guy did. Whether or not it was the best way that anyone could handle that situation, my reasoning is that it was better than punching him in the face, which was the first feeling I had when he rubbed his nose.
The political situation and all that accompanies and supports it are fascist, and, as with the caution barrels on the highway, there’s hasn’t even been an attempt to hide the motive of greed behind what the politicians and other influential people and organizations have done and have encouraged the public to do. Greed for power, greed for money, greed for sexual satiation at the expense of anyone who can be forced or corrupted into it; these are the values that are being endorsed.
Copyright L. Kochman, September 26, 2011 @ 10:29 a.m./addition on September 27, 2011 @ 11:34 a.m./addition @ 11:38 a.m.
2. Newblog2011: 09/26/11 Fascism
By 7:30 a.m. this morning, when I started to write notes by hand for what I remembered from my walk from Boston to Cambridge:
--Caution cones, poles, barrels and tape where there was no construction or any need for them; not as many as there where when I first got to Boston, but enough to continue to be disturbing
--A long line of Caution barrels between the concrete partitions of the highway that is behind the Back Bay T-station. They’re been there since before today. There isn’t even a pretense of there being any legitimate need for them to be there.
(Note I'm adding on September 27, 2011 @ 11:32 a.m.: The highway along which the Caution barrels are also has a sign on it that says "14'2"." That is most likely the clearance height for the overpass that goes across that highway. "14" is a code number for me, which fact the city government of Boston seems to have made use of and that highway is one that I go by frequently.)
As I was walking on the overpass above that road, a man who was probably 20 at the most was walking toward me, from the opposite direction. He saw me, and, from several feet away as he approached, rubbed his nose. I said “You must have forgotten your tissues today. That must be tough with your runny nose.” He pulled the iPod earpieces out of his ears as I was in the middle of saying that, and when I’d completed the second sentence, he said “Yeah.”
I’ve said those sentences to people before, when they’ve done what that guy did. Whether or not it was the best way that anyone could handle that situation, my reasoning is that it was better than punching him in the face, which was the first feeling I had when he rubbed his nose.
The political situation and all that accompanies and supports it are fascist, and, as with the caution barrels on the highway, there’s hasn’t even been an attempt to hide the motive of greed behind what the politicians and other influential people and organizations have done and have encouraged the public to do. Greed for power, greed for money, greed for sexual satiation at the expense of anyone who can be forced or corrupted into it; these are the values that are being endorsed.
Copyright L. Kochman, September 26, 2011 @ 10:29 a.m./addition on September 27, 2011 @ 11:34 a.m./addition @ 11:38 a.m.