Sunday, July 26, 2020

heart-breaking and arrogant

-- My sister, a licensed social worker with a penchant, irrespective of licensing, for helping people, told me the other day that she had seen an uptick in patients seeking help since the advent of the worldwide flu. In fact, she had been turning people away. (This dovetails, anecdotally, with my feeling that the world flu epidemic is as deadly, if not more so, as a psychology-crusher, a heart-breaker worse than death.

I look for suicides, if anyone's computing such things, to rise up in the same way it did during the Depression-era 1930's and might at that time be noticed en passant by such as the Philidelphia Inquirer, which I once consulted on another matter. Heads in the oven seemed, at that time, to make good one- or two-paragraph filler.

-- I might have made a more easy person in this life if I had sat at the head of someone's table -- you know, the table at which the man sits at the head and rules, has rigidities understood and acceded to. It is easier to acknowledges class and stature than to attempt to leap over the class boundary. The older I get, the more I am convinced there are, in fact, classes in this society. Not good, not bad, just classes because there is not enough time or capacity to go-classless so to speak. Believing in classes is as ridiculous as not-believing in them. The movie "Heaven's Gate," however imperfect, put me in mind of this.

-- I slept much of this day away. It's another -- five? six? seven? -- hot and humid one. Blessedly, the air-conditioning has gone off only tick-tock briefly. Humidity brings me to my knees. How did we survive without air conditioning in the brick-oven of Manhattan before air-conditioning?

-- In a blip of television yesterday, a nun-actress accuses a priest-actor of "arrogance" in his profession. "Arrogance" may not be pitch-perfect as a descriptor, but it's pretty damned close when it comes to religion.

No insult intended: Give it a chance, and anything can be arrogant.


9 comments:

  1. Wake up! COVID-19 is not the Flu.
    Neither was Ebola or Chickenpox.

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    1. Andy is not entirely wrong to say this.

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  2. Short list of maladies caused by viruses:

    https://www.lifepersona.com/10-diseases-caused-by-the-most-common-viruses

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  3. As for "Classes" a lot depends on one's perspective, including attitude, ambition, intelligence, education, and starting bank account.

    There are those with the belief that its always better to keep other people down by any means necessary, and there are those who believe its better for everyone if everyone is helped to live up to their fullest potential.

    Then there's Depression as a mental illness, when that kind of depression hits walls like extended isolation and unemployment, some are compelled to check out. Makes me angry at the monsters who want to end the "Safety Net," then I remember that those people just have a different mental dis-ease.

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    1. No less motivated to protect, defend and extend the "Safety Net."

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  4. Ill take smart arrogance over incompetent and arrogant any day.

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