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Sunday, May 12, 2019

Nothing . . .

. . . new . . .

(from Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood)
". . . But most despairing to Adams were the 'Personal hatreds and Party Animosities' that consumed the capital. . ."

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Nothing . . .

. . . new

(from Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood)
". . . since the Middle Ages the people had struggled to wrest their rights from the twin tyrannies of power - monarchs and the church. For centuries the great had exploited the ignorance and timidity of ordinary people in order to dominate and oppress them. When government was properly restrained by respect for the people's rights, it could be a useful force for good. "But when such restraints are taken off, it becomes an incroaching (sic), grasping, restless and ungovernable power.". . . "

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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Nothing . . .

. . . that I, or anyone else, does musically hasn't already been done before

(from https://www.complex.com/music/2013/08/how-to-sound-smart-about-music/)
"This is so derivative."

"I like their older stuff better."

"They're okay, but they're not artists."

"This album was recorded in a barn in Marrakech."

"They're good, but [insert artist name]'s solo album is better."

"They're good on a 'technical' level."

"All of the songs sound the same."

"You've got to hear them live to understand."

"Pitchfork gave it an 8.4."

"It sounds like a hurricane punching a Dracula in the solar plexus."

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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Something . . .

. . . named nothing . . .

aught
blank
cipher
crumb
diddly
naught
nix
nothingness
nought
nullity
scratch
void
zero
zilch
zip
zippo
duck egg
fly speck
goose egg
zot
zed

Zed
©2013 Raymond M. Jozwiak
Originally From Black & White Then Back

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Sunday, February 4, 2018

Proof . . .

. . . of nothing . . .

(from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-texts-trump-clinton-deep-state_us_5a615538e4b01d91b25449c9)
". . . Messages between two FBI employees show they recoiled at the idea of using government power against anti-Clinton forces. . . If they (Peter Strzok and Lisa Page) were part of a “deep state” operation to keep Trump from being elected, weaponizing government power to target a critic of the FBI and root out anti-Clinton forces within the bureau would’ve been a pretty solid move. . . Yet both Page and Strzok recoiled at this suggestion. Strzok found the criticism and the woman’s suggestion “wildly infuriating.” Page, an FBI lawyer, said that the criticism would’ve made her “blind with rage” and wondered what possible legal basis there could be for obtaining Kallstrom’s phone records. The texts make clear that both Strzok and Page were frustrated by stories that reflected poorly upon the FBI’s handling of the Clinton probe and elsewhere suggest that Page may have spoken with a reporter, evidently in defense of the bureau’s actions in the Clinton Foundation investigation. But in their texts on the eve of Trump’s election, both seem to recognize that obtaining phone records of a former FBI official to hunt down his anti-Clinton sources within the bureau was a pretty bad idea. . . "

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Monday, March 14, 2016

Absolutely . . .

. . . nothing! . . .

(from Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, translation by John E. Woods)
". . . We are lost. Which is to say: The war is lost, and that means more than a lost campaign, it means that we in fact are lost - lost, our cause and soul, our faith and our history. Germany is done for, or will be done for. AN unutterable collapse - economic, political, moral and spiritual -- in shor, an all-embracing collapse looms ahead. Not that I would have wished for what threatens us, for it is despair, it is madness. Not that I would have wished it, because my pity, my forlorn compassion, is far too deep for this unhappy nation; and when I think back ten years to its awakening and blind fervor, to the uprising that broke forth to break open and break down, to the new beginning that was to purify everything, to our popular and national rebirth, to that specious holy ecstasy, in which, to be sure, were mixed, as warning signed of its treachery, so much savage brutality and hulking vulgarity, so much obscene lust to violate, torture, humiliate, and which, as every sensible person knew, already bore war, this entire war within it . . . "

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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Nothing . . .

. . . or something? . . .

(from Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods)
". . . sometimes not even taking off his hat and coat, he would walk straight to the piano, his face strained with concentration, as if this had been the real point of his having come, and then with a strong attack would sound knotted chords and, his eyebrows raised high as he emphasized each modulating note, try out the preparations and resolutions he might have been considering on his way there. . . "What is that"? . . . "Nothing," the pianist answered with a quick shake of his head, a gesture that looked more as if he were shooing a fly. "How can it be nothing," someone retorted, "since you're playing it?" . . . "And how can he say it's nothing, when it's something he's playing? You can't play what doesn't exist?". . . "Everything . . . was once nothing that became something. ". . . "

Cognition
©2016 Raymond M. Jozwiak, from the upcoming "No Frills"

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Nothing New . . .

. . . Scapegoating - to play off one group against another . . .

. . . be WARY!

(from Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders with Huck Gutman)
". . . For a hundred years, the white workers of the South were the most exploited white workers in America. They were paid the lowest wages, they endured the worst working conditions, their housing was abysmal, their kids went to the most backward schools, and very few could send their children to college. But what did they have? They were given "niggers" to hate and look down on, "niggers" who couldn't vote, drink at their water fountains, use the same bathrooms, or sit up front in the buses or movie theaters.

The political, economic, social, and educational systems of the South enforced those divisions and continually fed the antagonisms. Above all things, white workers were encouraged to despise, and protect themselves from their black neighbors, or face losing what little they had. The rich folks in the the South - the bankers the manufacturers, the cottonfield owners - laughed all the way to the bank. . .political activists. . . brought black and white workers together to fight for justice. They did this not only because they believed in civil rights and equal opportunity but also because they undersood that real economic and political transformation would never be achieved as long as whites and blacks were busy fighting each other - rather than their common oppressors. . . "

Monday, June 10, 2013

Heaven. . .

(from http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/talking+heads/heaven_20135027.html)
Songwriters: BYRNE, DAVID/HARRISON, JERRY

Everyone is trying to get to the bar
The name of the bar, the bar is called heaven
The band in heaven, they play my favourite song
Play it one more time, play it all night long
Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens
Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens
There is a party, everyone is there
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time
When this party's over, it will start again
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same
Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens
When this kiss is over it will start again
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be this much fun
Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens
Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens

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