Definition of Terms
Sometimes one needs to define their terms
We all think that we are speaking the same or similar languages but often one's understanding of what another is saying wildly different, and so, it is important that we define our terms.
For instance: Cancel Culture
The is no cancel culture. There are those who get tired of hearing others say words like "nigger", "wetback", "spic", "kike", "lesbian", "queer", "transgender", and "liberal", and there are those who have just quit saying those words because the looks of revulsion, and the loss of buisness that often resulted. See: Donald Sterling. When it does seem that all of a culture jumps on board in hateful reaction to the Harvey Weinstein's and Jeffrey Epsteins of the world it is because the reaction is of a more universal dry heave than one felt by the individual cake makers of the world against their neighbors.
Being woke is no more an appelation of one group or party than another, though the word was first used by Leadbelly to warn Blacks to be aware of the truth of the world around them, and emphasized by others who noted the strange fruit that grew where many instances grapes of wrath being sown. Few could condemn such wokeness, which maddened Conservationsll, and has led to their being woke as well, in their own way, of the truth of the world around them. They are tired of the "injustice" they see of having to put up with what appears to them as a culture war of "minorities" walking USA streets as equals with whites, with lgbtqia people existing in society as if they were not a pox on their christian beliefs, of liberal empathy going against their narrow fellowship reading of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There is no board or institutions set up to push back on the conservative by knowingly and willfully placing people or color, gender fluidity, the ability to love indiscriminately, or to hold non-establishment ideas, it is just a liberal society, accepting people as they are.
This is not a war by the left, but the conservatives see that the existance of "liberals" after a hundred years of conservation public relations machines condemnjing liberal Ivory towers of history and reason, and even though conservatives have murdered liberal equal rights leaders in droves, our persistance is a war on their values and so they see our mere existance as an assualt, a war on their values.
They abhor our use of "Fascist" to discribe their political policies as an attempt at cancel culture, for even with their public relations machine who could allow Fascism to exist? But, the closest to a cancel culture that may exist today is the "right" attempting to cancel the "left" by using the government of the United States of America to intimidate us with the army, to prosecute being liberal as a crime, and persecuting what they see as liberal as criminal though there be no laws allowing such treatment, pushing the agenda of right wing institutions and players such as the Heritage Foundation and the Koch brothers both here and abroad.
Experience is science. Its practice is our art. Wisdom, our religion.
Wally
About Me
Let's Get Acquainted
Hi, I'm Wally, welcome to my world.
I say my world because sometimes things in my world just do not jive with the rest of the world. It seems that I don't quite "get" a lot that seems to a be "given" to just about anyone else and I also seem to work with a few things that are a "given", to me, that just don't seem to even be a consideration to everyone else...
Maybe it's because I'm of that first TV generation of the 1950's and 1960's that got connected with the entire world and saw it up close and personal, for the first time unfiltered by algorithms or production value.
Maybe it's because I'm part undercover Mexican (blue eyes and and brown heart), and the other part is of a German who was born in a area that would be Poland today, all of which made me sensitive of beaner, nazi, and pollack "jokes", and then those about so many others. I don't really like or use many labels on people, I'm a humanist, I just thing of us all as Human Beings.
Maybe it's because my vocabulary is ample that I would often meet laughter by saying things like, "nuclear physicist", to my teacher in kindergarten when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, or, being beaten up for money for all, "them ten dollar words" that I, "...was always spending."
Or maybe it's just that I've always had an active interior life. I often would not say things out loud, but there was a party going on inside my head of stuffed animals and Walter Cronkite at first, then of Hobo Kelly, and Captain Kangaroo, Davy Jones, Bali Hai, Watts... Oh, the list was endless. Vietnam, Moonlighting, Michael Jackson... So many teachings, considerations, and things to learn. So much glossing over and/or ignorance of facts or reason by others. I was open to learning but unwilling to always be a buzzkill setting things to right... So I've usually kept my mouth shut.
Maybe it was figuring out one day that I was no longer the most intelligent person in the room.
One gets used to having an internal dialog, but a journal is also a good idea, a museum of ideas to reflect upon.
This one is mine.
High School Senior Prom night. I cut my date, Susan, out of the shot so that she could not it steal.