upright & seeking nutrition

The CHAZ & the virus & labs & bibliographies & a guy on a bike. The CHAZ and All That Jazz As monuments are toppling & state legislatures are agreeing to take down confederate state flags, a great mountain of indignation is pouring out of America. Even the meme “Democracy in a can” [tear gas can] was looking poignant. The lockdowns had given with one hand what corporations and bankers had for most of history taken away with the other:  free time for engaging in politics  as the payoff for having driven the system with crippling debt, plus lockdown during a pandemic. Mayors & governors were having to figure out which side they were going to dance for, the epidemiology probability models, or the oligarchs. Somewhere in between was the capacity for sweeping away what wasn't working & building something much, much better. Cynicism, made out of deprivation & a lack of nutrients in the basics [food, mutual care, time, quiet, money, art, conscience

Masks & the economy & Teen Town & The Canoe & the pandemic. If a journalist, a biologist, & a political philosopher sat down together to talk politics & science it is unlikely that they'd run out of things to say for weeks because they'd have to practically invent a new language. Pandemic Papers Parts 1 & 2 were about what everyone could see was happening in the first 3 months of the pandemic. It was dedicated to perception . Now, a person with a curious brain is always at work trying to make sense of what we see & media messaging. Everyone detects some media nonsense somewhere. Spoiler: media nonsense is a feature, not a bug. Since we can't go out & see everything first hand, then we have to work out what is really happening the best we can. Pandemic Papers: Thinking Parts 3 & 4 are about where the cultural messaging about the pandemic is open to criticism. It suggests some strange answers. I have so many questions. Mas