DANIEL BERRIGAN, A LEADER OF PEACEFUL OPPOSITION TO VIETNAM WAR, INSPIRED A GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS, Betty Medsger
What a character!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Berrigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Berrigan_bibliography
George Orwell warned us about techno sh!t becoming way too ubiquitous to be ignored by negative forces, our own conscious and moral short-comings and the dangers of newer generations becoming careless and dumber
Chomsky is of the opinion that, generally speaking, Vietnam era protests were not as wide spread and conscious as we would like to believe nowadays:
// __ Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald & Noam Chomsky 2016 – A Conversation on Privacy
youtube.com/watch?v=278WyUKbZP8
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Snowden conjectures the time gap between major scandals becomes shorter, whistle-blowing becomes contagious
while Il Duce reminds us of the old saying about the difference between optimism and pessimism:
and I think, as it happens with pathogens, we counterproductively risk the danger of aiding the very cause we are fighting by helping people “habituate” those issues if we do not use that information in ways that are not clearly understandable and actionable to “We the people”
People wonder what would have been of Sir. Isaac Newton if he would have had a cell phone (via Phil Ebersole’s Blog):
I wonder how many of use wonder if all we are doing is “freedom-lovingly” becoming brainless, and while we are at it, dumber and fatter
// __ George Carlin: education and the owners of America
youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg
RCL
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