Glad you say that the article had nothing to do with the park. I didn’t dare ask:) And as for your suggestion to reach harmony, that was precisely how the imaginary number was created: negative one does not have a square root? Dammit! Let’s agree it does and we’ll see where that’ll take us!
The inability of negative numbers to possess a square root has never deprived me of sleep. But we should rejoice that they all have a perfectly perfect cube root.
"Let's agree, and see where that'll take us." I shall have that inscribed somewhere.
I hesitate to even say "To be or not to be", for you'll likely have a clip hidden away somewhere of Elsingore Castle and a slim cigar to boot.
The Hungarian monument was an extra, unexpected bonus. Köszönöm. I am tempted to point out that the clip has nothing at all to do with the article. But, then again, the article has nothing at all to do with MacArthur Park. And nor, indeed, did the song. Like the world that surrounds us, this all coheres without knowing that it coheres, just from the simple fact of being. To being, or not to being.
Pozzo-like (the character in Beckett's Waiting for Godot, who muses at one point whether the amount of happiness in the world is the same as the amount of unhappiness, so that when someone somewhere shouts out in glee, someone somewhere else will be crying tears), my posit deriving from all of this is whether things, whatever the may be, have a natural default state that tends towards cohesion, or at least peaceful co-existence. Everything belongs with everything else. Even cheese and chocolate. That is, until we come along and decide that it doesn't.
Our quest is for harmony, whether in interior decorating or immigration policies. What if we simply looked at things and agreed they're already harmonious?
Well, Graham you got that right! Democracy as it originated in Athens in the misty, very distant, past, meant every male citizen in that CITY/state voted on each and every piece of legislature. Obviously that didn't work well.
The United States was founded as a "Representative Republic". It was a relatively small Republic (four million people) and it was founded by white, wealthy (landed, as they called it back then) MALES. (Sort of Father Knows Best - which no one believes anymore) What I love about our Constitution is that it was written as a basis, intended to be a "living" document changeable with time. At that time their thinking was (Article 1, section 3) One white male representative for every 30,000 people. Today, my Congressman represents 750,000 of us so he listens to two types of people - those who donate the most to his campaigns and hose like me who regularly email him - although I suspect the only emails he reads are those presented to him by his staff.
So I agree the word democracy is meaningless. However, what we have in America is a dictatorship of, by, and for donald john trump slime and his equally greedy minions. I am adamantly opposed to 1. Greed 2. Any type of dictatorship 3. Obscene hoarding of wealth to the detriment of 90% of the citizens. 4. Disallowing immigration of varieties of people - three two Americas (North, Central, and South are lands of immigrants. Homo sapiens originated in Africa and possibly Asia - we invaded everywhere else. And yes we displaced and probably massacred any of our species that got there before us.
We are not a very nice animal, but we are what we are. The best we can hope for is that some of us see that for the continuation of our species we need to live as harmoniously as is possible with our own species and all other organisms on Planet Earth.
Governing us is difficult as whether intelligent or not we think. Our Representative Republic has worked well enough for us for 248+ years. We may have to separate into smaller Countries like Europe has, leaving those too uneducated, or too stupid to wallow as best they can in trump slime, while the rest of us form either a single Country or an alliance of Countries working for the common good.
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Glad you say that the article had nothing to do with the park. I didn’t dare ask:) And as for your suggestion to reach harmony, that was precisely how the imaginary number was created: negative one does not have a square root? Dammit! Let’s agree it does and we’ll see where that’ll take us!
The inability of negative numbers to possess a square root has never deprived me of sleep. But we should rejoice that they all have a perfectly perfect cube root.
"Let's agree, and see where that'll take us." I shall have that inscribed somewhere.
I hesitate to even say "To be or not to be", for you'll likely have a clip hidden away somewhere of Elsingore Castle and a slim cigar to boot.
The Hungarian monument was an extra, unexpected bonus. Köszönöm. I am tempted to point out that the clip has nothing at all to do with the article. But, then again, the article has nothing at all to do with MacArthur Park. And nor, indeed, did the song. Like the world that surrounds us, this all coheres without knowing that it coheres, just from the simple fact of being. To being, or not to being.
Pozzo-like (the character in Beckett's Waiting for Godot, who muses at one point whether the amount of happiness in the world is the same as the amount of unhappiness, so that when someone somewhere shouts out in glee, someone somewhere else will be crying tears), my posit deriving from all of this is whether things, whatever the may be, have a natural default state that tends towards cohesion, or at least peaceful co-existence. Everything belongs with everything else. Even cheese and chocolate. That is, until we come along and decide that it doesn't.
Our quest is for harmony, whether in interior decorating or immigration policies. What if we simply looked at things and agreed they're already harmonious?
Well, Graham you got that right! Democracy as it originated in Athens in the misty, very distant, past, meant every male citizen in that CITY/state voted on each and every piece of legislature. Obviously that didn't work well.
The United States was founded as a "Representative Republic". It was a relatively small Republic (four million people) and it was founded by white, wealthy (landed, as they called it back then) MALES. (Sort of Father Knows Best - which no one believes anymore) What I love about our Constitution is that it was written as a basis, intended to be a "living" document changeable with time. At that time their thinking was (Article 1, section 3) One white male representative for every 30,000 people. Today, my Congressman represents 750,000 of us so he listens to two types of people - those who donate the most to his campaigns and hose like me who regularly email him - although I suspect the only emails he reads are those presented to him by his staff.
So I agree the word democracy is meaningless. However, what we have in America is a dictatorship of, by, and for donald john trump slime and his equally greedy minions. I am adamantly opposed to 1. Greed 2. Any type of dictatorship 3. Obscene hoarding of wealth to the detriment of 90% of the citizens. 4. Disallowing immigration of varieties of people - three two Americas (North, Central, and South are lands of immigrants. Homo sapiens originated in Africa and possibly Asia - we invaded everywhere else. And yes we displaced and probably massacred any of our species that got there before us.
We are not a very nice animal, but we are what we are. The best we can hope for is that some of us see that for the continuation of our species we need to live as harmoniously as is possible with our own species and all other organisms on Planet Earth.
Governing us is difficult as whether intelligent or not we think. Our Representative Republic has worked well enough for us for 248+ years. We may have to separate into smaller Countries like Europe has, leaving those too uneducated, or too stupid to wallow as best they can in trump slime, while the rest of us form either a single Country or an alliance of Countries working for the common good.