Propaganda 102: Notes

This WILL be on the test!
--You don't have to control people's thoughts if you supply what they think about and the words they use.
--We GOTTA to stop acting like "the Media" are independent agents.They are NOT. They're private property!
--Middull Markins aren't sheep, they're moths.
--Agit-prop doesn't lose any effectiveness because it's untrue.
--Every Twitlerian slander, every nugget of mis-information, every spin, every lie becomes part of the discourse, of the narrative.
--It's not about "money." Dat's just a tool. It's about POWER, ruling the world. Compelling others to do your will. And THAT now seems possible.
--Adverse effects of a vaccine, if any, would be non-transmissible; adverse effects of the virus are pandemic. Is there a "choice?"

The "PRIVILEGED LIFE"

White privilege is real. Take a minute to compare a Black person’s experience today.
I have privilege as a white person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice:
I can go birding in the Park (#ChristianCooper)
I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery)
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothemSean and #AtatianaJefferson)
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride)
I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark)
I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards)
I can play loud music (#JordanDavis)
I can sell CDs (#AltonSterling)
I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown)
I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice)
I can go to church (#Charleston9)
I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin)
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell)
I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant)
I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland)
I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile)
I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones)
I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford)
I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher)
I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott)
I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover)
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)
I can run (#WalterScott)
I can breathe (#EricGarner)
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)
The list omits Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old EMT killed by police officers in her own home on March 13. #BlackLivesMatter

A Litany of Ills and Injuries

I have been aging less than gracefully.
Understand, I was NEVER graceful in youth, either.
Somewhere, I skipped over the automatizing motor function part. I was no kinda dancer, replacing skill with enthusiasm
But advancing age has found me increasingly troubled with balance matters. Bi-pedal locomotion is considerably more difficult and complex than it might appear.
So, in anticipation of "care" I may now or in the future require, my sister assembled a list of what she and my other sibs knew to be my physical infirmities. In reviewing them, I shall say in advance, I don't know how I manage (badly?)
1. I am a fall risk, with balance issues (but am getting PT for that)
2. I have two stents in the cardiac artery.
3. I have partial occlusion of both carotid arteries.
4. I have (mild) osteoporois.
5. I have sciatica.
6. I have COPD.
7. I have high blood pressure, controlled by meds.
8. I have GERD.
9. I have not-quite crippling peripheral neuropathy in my feet and toes.
10. I have had significant muscle loss, such that when I've fallen, I've had great difficulty getting up.
11. I live alone.
A-Men!