Today at the Norwell, Massachusetts library: “Join Norwell Library for the Pride Month session in our Issues Facing Democracy series part 2 or 4. This time, we will be focusing on the LGBTQ+ experience.” Both June and July are Pride Months? Or maybe every month in Maskachusetts is a Pride Month? (the official calendar says that we are currently in between International Drag Day and Gay Uncles Day)
Here’s the event flyer:
The politically neutral library in this town that is 95 percent white/Asian and that sports a median household income of over $180,000 per year says that they support “equity, diversity, and inclusion”.
The library’s Board of Trustees appears even less diverse than your description of the Norwell population…!
I noticed that my very progressive relatives in San Diego are still posting on Facebook about ongoing Pride events. It seems like a perpetual thing now.
I have noticed that many meetings and gatherings of the LGBTQ+ community often focus on the “issues” they continue to face, day after day, year after year, even decades later. This recurring pattern makes me want to ask: aren’t these issues itself inflicted? Could there be value in looking inward, to better understand and address the root causes of these persistent issues they face? Or is blaming others for their “issues” is the only fix?
No offense to any groups, but here’s a hypothesis:
The ‘bigger the ego’/’important the propaganda’ of a person/group the bigger the unit of time we need to measure its origin. Individuals, for some reason celebrate birthdays, but they could also celebrate birth second, or birth minute, but that doesn’t quite capture the size of their egos, I guess. Then you can expand the unit to month like you say, if you think day doesn’t quite capture the importance.
Another way to capture the size of the ego of an individual would be to choose a smaller unit but repeat it more frequently, I believe. Like birthsecond being repeated every minute. So, you have your birthsecond every minute.
This leads to an interesting interpretation of Time. It’s as if we are celebrating the birth of the universe whenever we perceive Time. Flow state then can be interpreted as forgetting that the universe exists, which leads to:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religion)
@Phil, you moved to FL 3 years ago. Why are you still obsessed with MA.
My ties to Maskachusetts aren’t severed. I’m sharing a house here in Oshkosh with a pilot who lives in MA (he’s a huge Trump-hater! Expresses new outrage almost daily regarding Donald’s crimes as reported by NYT). I went to a party across the street where about five KBED-based pilots attended. One is moving to Florida shortly, though.
The source of the original post is a chat group that I am in where two members live in Maskachusetts (one becomes a Florida resident, however, next week).
@Phil your roommate/housemate is huge Trump-hater! and you are a huge Trump-supporter . it balances out.
A person who spontaneously erupted in praise and adulation for Donald Trump at least once per day would certainly balance out my friend! Someone like me who supported Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis for President probably wouldn’t qualify! (I did appreciate Trump’s “Shalom Mahmoud” tweet regarding Columbia’s finest student/graduate! But on the other hand, I never shared this appreciation unprompted over breakfast)
@phil whom you supported(Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis) in primaries does not matter. Just the vote in presidential election counts. Talking about “person/s who spontaneously erupted in praise and adulation for Donald Trump”, My redneck neighborhood is full of Teslas now. Redneck owners out number Hippie owners. All of them bought before bromance ended.
If you would like to join us tomorrow and praise Trump with as much passion as my friend brings to his denunciations of Trump we can judge the balance. We are informed that love is more powerful than hate, but I personally haven’t seen that in the political realm.
Here’s an argument for your friend, Dr. Greenspun. Assume that best system of fairness we have is the court system. Even if Trump is as evil as Hitler. And if Hitler was tried with the court system, he would have been provided a lawyer to take his side and a neutral judge. So, there would have been at least two people who were not against Hitler.
Your friend most likely wants to be neutral, i.e., evaluate Trump fairly. Since he can’t find the equivalent of Hitler’s lawyer in you, he will most likely need to find it within himself.
This is of course assuming that he doesn’t have any personal vandetta with Trump and he believes in the court system.