Hick Planet
magazine
tryna find the grownups table on a hick planet
an unperiodical:
on arts, endeavors, musings, sites, sights, & other senses
Thursday, 2020 April 30th
issue 2
The Day of the Fools
a great American celebration
Every year, we begin this month with our tradition of practical jokes and playing pranks and fooling someone.
But clearly this year, the cosmos has come up with this deadly prank that it’s playing on us all.
And how well do we play the fools?
Being readier to congregate than to stay healthy and survive and help other weaker ones survive?
Having our businesses be readier to let their customers (whom they live off of) congregate than to keep them healthy and able to continue patronizing those businesses, so’s to allow those businesses to survive?
Not coming to an understanding of what creates and sustains an economy or what it takes to keep it going or get it going and strengthen it?
And let’s consider some other foolhardy habits that we might be cultivating—
the decisions made about what is or isn’t essential:
unduly accumulating influence, along with hypocrisy, insincerity, dissonance, discord, and disingenuousness:
allowing the efficacy of science itself to become a controversy:
failing to take—as a people, as members within our institutions, and especially as individuals—responsiblility and accountability for the future of our civilization:
self-disrespect for our basic hygiene:
being unwilling or unable to face up to the ramifications of the military actions this nation has engaged in:
Liberation of Saigon Day, Fall of Saigon Day:
lessons
& mislessons
of
America’s
begotten & misbegotten
war,
on the 45th anniversary
losing track of the principles and goals that we’ve striven to stand up for:
thinking you can’t or shouldn’t change things to be good and right in this universe:
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