From the introduction section of Preet Bharara's recently released book... Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts On Crime, Punishment, And The Rule Of Law (March 19th, 2019):
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This is just a taste of how Preet Bharara sets up his spellbinding book on the years he spent as a Prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. In the next few following pages of the introduction, Bharara recounts his first lasting impression of how his best highschool friend (a family type friend) was destroyed emotionally over the Menendez Brother's parricide crime. This is such a good book. I hope more people read it, so they understand more fully that crimes of corruption, white-collar or not, are never as easy as arm-chair personalities would have most people believe. |
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Antonio Gramsci's doctrine of Hegemony:
The rule of one class over another is not dependent on economic or physical power alone, but on persuading the ruled to accept a system of beliefs belonging to the ruling class (James Joll, UK, 1977). |
I finished Preet Bharara's latest book and he ends his book the way he began his book, with this quote:
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Seen on my Twitter feed...
every morning i wake up in the wrong place, at the wrong time, feeling the wrong things, wanting what i can't have, loving what's not good for me and then i have some sweetass coffee on the porch overlooking the rest of my miserable life and i say fuck it
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Ninety-nine and half just won't do.
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Anger prevents love and isolates the one who is angry. It is an attempt, often successful, to push away what is most longed for—companionship and understanding. It is the deal of the humanness of others, as well as a denial of your own humanness.
Anger is the agony of believing that you are not capable of being understood and that you are not worthy of being understood. It is a wall that separates you from others as effectively as if it were concrete. Thick and very high.There is no way though it, under it, or over it. Certainly. —bell hooks |
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women. Sexism as a system of domination is institutionalized, but it has never determined in an absolute way the fate of all women in this society. Being oppressed means the absence of choices. It is the primary point of contact between the oppressed and the oppressor. Many women in this society do have choices (as inadequate as they are); therefore exploitation and discrimination are words that more accurately describe the lot of women collectively in the United States. Many women do not join organized resistance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but they do not equate this with oppression. Under capitalism, patriarchy is structured so that sexism restricts women's behavior in some realms even as freedom from limitations is allowed in other spheres. The absence of extreme restrictions leads many women to ignore the areas in which they are exploited or discriminated against; it may even lead them to imagine that no women are oppressed.
—bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center |
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Most enlightened womyn actively work on their societal ingrained sexism in their relationships. It is a constant battle against societal repression. There are still many womyn who do not realize that they harbor inherit sexism learned through many generations of repression. Cis-men practice overt and covert sexism without even being aware of their thoughts and behavior. Men are so accustomed to societal male privilege that the actions and views are often subconsciously generated. Now, enter in the straight, white cis-male, a situation which creates a trifecta of oppression. I believe that this group made up the majority of Trump's base and the bias against Clinton, but that is another discussion. That group of men would take much more energy to possibly get to the point of understanding womyn's oppression and their role in it than I'd be willing to invest. My Partner and I choose to live out life in as much of a womyn only environment as possible within the constructs of a non-isolated womyn only rural community. Cathexis |
On another note.....
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Everyone should be allowed to wear glitter.
—Betsy, a department store worker, upon hearing that I wouldn’t be allowed to wear her eye shadow at work. |
Seriously Sunday
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On joy...
True inner joy is self – created. It does not depend on outer circumstances. A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life. – Sri Chinmoy |
Joy
Let us live in joy, not hating those who hate us. Among those who hate us, we live free of hate. Let us live in joy, free from disease among those who are diseased. Among those who are diseased, let us live free of disease. Let us live in joy, free from greed among the greedy. Among those who are greedy, we live free of greed. Let us live in joy, though we possess nothing. Let us live feeding on joy, like the bright gods. –Buddha |
The Tulip
Perhaps the tulip know the fickleness Of Fortune’s smile, for on her stalk’s green shaft She bears a wine cup through the wilderness... – Hafiz |
She's a sunflower,https://www.chicagobotanic.org/sites...lower_big1.jpgstrong & bold
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Today marks the three year anniversary of the first time I protested systemic oppression. I continue to work and stand with the people in our fight for liberation, despite those who are trying to erase the movement! The movement has always lived with the people! —Colin Kaepernick
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Mary Oliver - I Worried
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang. –Mary Oliver |
California Governor Gavin Newsom
"I have spent 52 years of my life being an environmental leader and champion, and I'll take a back seat to no one in terms of my advocacy," Newsom told reporters just hours before sending the vetoed bill back to the Legislature.
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Serves him right—hoping he throws all of them under the bus—they deserve no less.
You have to ask Rudy.
— Pres. Trump, when asked why it was appropriate for his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to be involved in government business. |
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