Just How Much Has Our Change Been a Design.... I've been fighting this BS language fight since about 1988, I kid you not. It must end here. It's a long and complicated thing to explain the role of language in our lives.  Also the role of symbols--the psychology of it--this is why they are tearing down our monuments because it is all intregal to our identity as a people. I have a few degrees in this shit and it bores the shit out of most people so no one has listened. Watched some music on You Tube tonight. I started with Freddy Mercury and went to Steve Perry and Journey, and then I watched some Camper Van Beethoven Lowry/Hickman show that I'd been to in NYC in 2000 and then some Bad Company and then some Lynrd Skynrd--I thought what the hell and watched Freebird Live, one of my favorite songs as a kid in junior high--but it is sort of a stupid song now--for the last 30 years people have been faux callin' it as an encore--an old and tired joke--but watchin' the video of this live 70s show just brought it all back. They are singing in front of a confederate flag--a giant one, for the stage backdrop. Nobody gets that now. They don't understand that the Civil War wasn't fought for slavery. It was fought as a protest against a more powerful Federal government--it was about the inequity of representation in Congress for the South, and for all the penalizing tariffs. Naturally then, the Confederate Flag stands for protest--for the people. Historians have spent the last hundred years muddying these issues as they became more and more bound up about slavery--and so people don't even understand the issues that had been steadily building for 40 years and ultimately caused the war.  The Confederate Flag is the flag of the Rebel--that nationalistic but contrary American Individual who puts the principal of spirit above the law of the land. It is a variant on Don't Tread On Me. This used to be common knowledge. And so if you flew that flag what you were really celebrating was the American spirit of Dissidence which--we heartily believed--kept this country alive and vibrant. So when I saw this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY I remembered all those faces and what we believed and felt. We were proud to be Americans but at the same time we refused to buy into any of it. The freebird idea, corny AF now, kind of shaped my perspective and helped me realize that you never succumb self to anything--no government, no power out of your hands.  And then too, a couple of these guys are going to die in a few years--Ronnie Van Zandt, 1977 and a few others I can't remember. God, I miss that country so bad. It wasn't really racist until [they] made it seem so.  We all got past all that a long long time ago and that's what makes this play so absurd.  But still, we all knew it was an absurd wreck of the government but People were still mostly real but it was also the twilight of that time, which was sad, disheartening. We all got past all that a long long time ago and that's what makes this play so absurd.   We are what is left of this spirit--and that spirit is what needs to be lifted, celebrated and victorious. Anyhow, I am getting a little drunk and off point now. What I really want to see is that we have to stop their plan to mold us--look at the inroads they've made all ready. If we don't resist, they'll mow us over. They are and have been doing giant human experiments on mass behavior for a hundred years--and it is all very well dialed in.  We have to remember who we have been and who we could still be.  It can't all be about finding out--like Chantal at OANN said, when Q wants to come out, Q will. But we need to reshape our country. Most of Congress needs to go. Both parties.Whatever. We are going to have to guide this baby. Only through the force of our personalities will we overcome this madness. We have to be real. Authentic. Persistent. Yikes, drunken lecture terminated.... P.S. I don't usually drink, I mean--whatever. I am drunk and while I am responsible for all stupidities, I don't necessarily need it pointed out.