Unpublished post from May of 2023 with footnote addendum:

After some time of internet silence I feel that it may be helpful to note that I am still alive, and still fomenting nonviolent revolution in the most inconspicuous manner possible. This includes having no plans for candidacy in the 2024 elections and high hopes of finishing my current writing projects before autumn.

I believe we can expect a more severe recession than is predicted, in large part because of the poor performance of key referent society political, economic, and media elites and their increasingly obtuse inattentiveness to world realities; the chief of which would appear to be that the current world order is deteriorating and that climate change is both real and accelerating. That last fact has been stated emphatically by a number of the more alert leaders, and many world citizens, and by the Intergovernmental Panel ( IPCC). This should not come as news.

If the government of the United States continues to honor its debts and to mitigate the excesses of capitalism and continuous warfare, we may have added time in the 3rd and 4th quarters to play on into next year’s grande melee of the 2024 American elections. If not, well, I’d really then have no idea where this could be headed . . . 

For the record, the previous post which was a letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren received no reply so far in the year since it was sent to her. She is, of course, a busy and important person, but there has been no noticeable action on ERA lately even as women’s rights are being chiseled away by chauvinist politicians.  We should hope to see more strenuous efforts on our behalf from all elected officials.

(This statement from nearly one year ago was not posted, and here we are now, six months out from the historic November 5, 2024, elections and already up to the gunnels in bullshit and obfuscation, while the biggest world event continues to be the fallout from Hamas October 7 attack & the Israeli response, now in its 200th day and exhibiting all the criteria that they ordered up at the onset and for which they have received a provisional finding from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of ‘crimes against humanity’ and will have to proceed to trial in due course. Major collateral impact is the United States persistent supply of weapons which puts them in the frame as well and has earned President Joe Biden the not-to-be-envied nickname, Genocide Joe . . .  Oh, and the first of former President Donald Trump’s trials has begun in New York, this one being the complications created from his payment of hush money to quash rumors that could have been costly in the final days of the 2016 campaign.)

PS . . . Never did hear from Senator Warren . . . I do not think that ERA is even a thing any more with bourgeoise feminism and no one seems to think it will make the Dodds decision moot and untie the Gordian Knot of chauvinism in ‘Merikan Law’. (Except me: 4/23/24)