TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Yeats Comes to Mind
In watching the economy and our idiots "leaders'" responses thereto, I can't help but thinking of William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming , in particular, the first stanza:
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Dave, I've been a reader of your survival post from time to time over the past year and learned a few things from it. While I think we share similar ideas regarding peak oil and the trouble that our society / country / world finds itself in, I recommend that you read Mike Ruppert's "Crossing the Rubicon". I say this because it ties in to these problems the reasons for 9/11. I say this to you because I see much more political criticism in your comments now than when the neocons were in control, but the clear-eyed truth is that Cheney & W put the nail in our coffin over the last 8 years while you were talking survival gear.
Jay Marchetti,
Pittsburgh PA
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