Coronavirus Journal, part 5 Advice I’ve received or come across lately: Keep it simple.Tell readers what they want to hear.Ditch the dogma; idle the ideology.Set aside ego identity, worldly fears and desires, competing theories and facts… Look within.Go to your room. The last one came from an astrologer, referencing lockdown,…
Category: Culture
A Litany of Subversion
Coronavirus Journal, part 4 “Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”--Emerson On April 9 Anthony Fauci, head health honcho of the White House, urged at a press conference that we must not question the official story of the coronavirus pandemic; instead, “Let…
“The New Normal”: Adapt or Resist?
Coronavirus Journal, Part 2 As an editor with an online business, I should be well positioned to survive in this changed economic landscape; though in practice I have seen a dramatic reduction in work coming my way since February. It has been interesting to notice, though, a shift in the…
The Fight for Freedom
Coronavirus Journal, part 1 At last I recognize the voice within, of the oppressed minority. At last I am of that minority. Actually I have always been here—since my coming of age—a conscientious objector to the tyranny of the silently brainwashed majority. The presidents of the world have declared the…