tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post80021897559222900..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: "The Trickster Is Not Playing"Frescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-23676622957440236422017-02-06T15:22:50.155-06:002017-02-06T15:22:50.155-06:00Noted! Won't tempt you to further comment at t...Noted! Won't tempt you to further comment at this time.ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-60257707733942337562017-02-06T13:50:37.198-06:002017-02-06T13:50:37.198-06:00P.P.P.S. And, the obvious glaring thing I didn'...P.P.P.S. And, the obvious glaring thing I didn't say:<br /><b>Trump is a trickster.</b> <br /><br />The Joker is in charge.<br /><br />And now I'm getting to my work, of which I have a lot.Frexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-50539325230683468772017-02-06T13:31:41.614-06:002017-02-06T13:31:41.614-06:00One more quote from Helen Lock, on the power of th...One more quote from Helen Lock, on the power of the Trickster, an *excellent* power, just not one you want running your government:<br /><br />"“The true Trickster’s trickery calls into question fundamental assumptions about the way the world is organized, and reveals the possibility of transforming them (even if often for ignoble ends)”. Frexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-77901086937001902892017-02-06T13:20:30.294-06:002017-02-06T13:20:30.294-06:00SPARKER: LOL: "Not very surprisingly, I agree...SPARKER: LOL: "Not very surprisingly, I agree with you lots."<br /><br />Yes, yes, yes: <br />you perfectly say something else I've been thinking:<br />good politics is <b>boring</b>.<br /><br />It SHOULD be boring. <br />It should be for people with the patience to be civil servants.<br />I don't mean they are boring, but they are willing and able do the boring work of running a civilized [boring] political system so the rest of us can get on with our lives.<br /><br />The heroes of my life are the folks who keep the sewer system running.<br /><br />Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-65519379182551849002017-02-06T13:14:42.411-06:002017-02-06T13:14:42.411-06:00Er, I meant "If" not "Of".Er, I meant "If" not "Of".<br />ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-54454109879543927192017-02-06T13:13:53.525-06:002017-02-06T13:13:53.525-06:00Not very surprisingly, I agree with you lots. I wo...Not very surprisingly, I agree with you lots. I would add that it is a choice between burn it down and work on upholding the rules in place for the judiciary branch (booooring) to keep the non-utopian democracy we live in going along. Rules are boring, sanity is boring, reason is boring, patience is boring. In the past, burning it down mostly works for those retaining control of the flame throwers, though.<br /><br />Of the executive branch has ADD, it behooves the citizens to focus.ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.com