a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Mass shooting by White supremacist racist I'm thinking of an earlier piece entitled: It’s déjà vu again again again. As hard as it is for me to believe it, that was two years ago! It was then that … Continue reading “White” replacement?
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Proximate context - stoking "culture wars" I'm writing this piece today in response to Kansas U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, who waded into the culture wars [again] yesterday [5/4/22] and essentially demanded the right to discriminate, i.e., requesting changes … Continue reading Putin’s lgbtq anti-“wokeness”?
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Housekeeping note: ~~~~~ Politics and strange bedfellows In this short piece I show how Russian president Vladimir Putin appears to be in an unlikely ideological coalition with a U.S. social justice movement. Please allow me to explain. … Continue reading Vladimir Putin’s “wokeness”?
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Masks? Well, I am thinking of our human personalities as a mask. Obviously, our own such mask is known by each of us subjectively from the inside and by others objectively from the outside. Spirituality 101 Parsing … Continue reading masks aside
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. "For our children" Echoes of QAnon. Last week, I said that "It’s in plain sight and it’s hidden" i.e., Putin's criminal aggression and his gaslighting. I also previewed: ". . . if one steps back, it becomes … Continue reading Ukrainian genocide?! (pt. 3)
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Russia attacks Ukraine Tick-tock... in long broad strokes In an essay from July 2021, Russian president Vladimir Putin began to claim that the nation "Ukraine" is a made-up entity, that it has no basis in historical reality without Russia's … Continue reading Ukrainian genocide?! (pt. 2)
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Genocide?! You be the judge Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said, without equivocation, that Russia has committed genocide in Ukraine. Genocide is a very specific kind of war crime. "Genocide" has been so oft used as an attention-grabbing designation … Continue reading Ukrainian genocide?!
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. . ~~~~~ Housekeeping Previously regarding Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine: March 6, Putin’s criminal aggression; March 13, Two things can be true at once; March 20, Another Apocalypse? Already?! [Note: the March 6 piece includes a list of information resources. I … Continue reading War’s new frontier
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. . ~~~~~ War like no one has ever seen before? Oh, I know, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has threatened that very thing if the West tries to interfere with his "rape-joke" plans for Ukraine (cf. 3rd paragraph here). … Continue reading War like never before
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. . ~~~~~ Optimistic? I always try to remain hopeful. 'Optimism,' on the other hand, has been pretty scarce in my view of the world for the past half-dozen years. In today's missive, I am choosing to be optimistic and imagine … Continue reading Another Apocalypse? Already?!
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