Comments on: The Future that Never Comes; the Past that Never Was; the Present Inscrutable http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Edward Campbell http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27371 Edward Campbell Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:07:04 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27371 As ever, Gary Corseri does jog our memories and moreso, distrust the dream-spinners. As ever, Gary Corseri does jog our memories and moreso, distrust
the dream-spinners.

]]> By: Gliscameria http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27306 Gliscameria Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:58:35 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27306 Nice article. Basing you culture on the thought that 'everything will get better' is a very dangerous thing, especially when we get lazy. Nice article.

Basing you culture on the thought that ‘everything will get better’ is a very dangerous thing, especially when we get lazy.

]]> By: Max Shields http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27228 Max Shields Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:09:23 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27228 Gary your trek down memory lane (land) could rightly be called the making of an American Radical. Once you are there, you can never go back. I keep going back to Ibsen's Enemy of the People. Somehow it seems to resonate during this time. Gary your trek down memory lane (land) could rightly be called the making of an American Radical.

Once you are there, you can never go back. I keep going back to Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. Somehow it seems to resonate during this time.

]]> By: Donald Hawkins http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27227 Donald Hawkins Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:04:12 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27227 Climate and weather are two different things climate is long term weather is short term as Richard Alley told me not to forget. This is where you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. The ice in the North Pole is melting and doing it much faster than first thought why climate. Of course we can listen to Rush or Inhofe or Exxon to feel better and stay in pretendland. In not to many years we will start to lose ports, cities because of sea level rise. Crops in a few years a bit of a problem. If you are older it should be easier to make the hard choices so the kids have a chance but that doesn't seem to be the way it is in many cases, why. I am sure volumes could be written on that why but not that hard to figure out. That speech that one man made last night at the convention where he said Bush didn't ask us to do anything was very good and didn't he say something about working together and again that is where that doesn't seem to be the way it is in many cases. So far I don't see it but one thing for sure it will change. The sad part there is still time and many who can work together and the know how want to try and of course the money power people who still think pretendland is the answer and working together is OK as long as they get to be the Boss, pathetic. Climate and weather are two different things climate is long term weather is short term as Richard Alley told me not to forget. This is where you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. The ice in the North Pole is melting and doing it much faster than first thought why climate. Of course we can listen to Rush or Inhofe or Exxon to feel better and stay in pretendland. In not to many years we will start to lose ports, cities because of sea level rise. Crops in a few years a bit of a problem. If you are older it should be easier to make the hard choices so the kids have a chance but that doesn’t seem to be the way it is in many cases, why. I am sure volumes could be written on that why but not that hard to figure out. That speech that one man made last night at the convention where he said Bush didn’t ask us to do anything was very good and didn’t he say something about working together and again that is where that doesn’t seem to be the way it is in many cases. So far I don’t see it but one thing for sure it will change. The sad part there is still time and many who can work together and the know how want to try and of course the money power people who still think pretendland is the answer and working together is OK as long as they get to be the Boss, pathetic.

]]> By: cg http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27220 cg Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:22:20 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27220 Well at least we can revel in the fact that the US beat China in the Olympics. China 51 Gold US 36 Gold Total medals. US 110 China 100 And we would have beat China even more if Michael Phelps could have won 9 silver medals instead of those 8 gold medals... Go USA! http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewphoto/2344/Bush_Drunk_at_Olympics/# What a country! Well at least we can revel in the fact that the US beat China in the Olympics.

China 51 Gold
US 36 Gold

Total medals.
US 110
China 100

And we would have beat China even more if Michael Phelps could have won 9 silver medals instead of those 8 gold medals…

Go USA!

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewphoto/2344/Bush_Drunk_at_Olympics/#
What a country!

]]> By: David http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27217 David Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:13:13 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27217 Gary, You need to swap some of that reality shit for a dose of good old American La-La-La-la-La. It won't hurt a bit, I promise. Just sit down in front of the TV with a six-pack and turn off that trouble-making brain. Soon you'll forget and all will be well. (Better get another six-pack just in case.) Nighty-nite. Good article. Thanks much. David Gary,

You need to swap some of that reality shit for a dose of good old American La-La-La-la-La. It won’t hurt a bit, I promise. Just sit down in front of the TV with a six-pack and turn off that trouble-making brain. Soon you’ll forget and all will be well. (Better get another six-pack just in case.)

Nighty-nite.

Good article. Thanks much.

David

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27213 Lloyd Rowsey Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:58:47 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27213 We are driving into the future by watching our rear-view mirrors, and we've now seen all the images in the mirror disappear. For exactly the reasons you describe, Gary. Nice writing. Also, someone said, or I dreamed it: The past is dead; the present is self-aggrandizement; and the only thing we have and can share is our dreams for the future. We are driving into the future by watching our rear-view mirrors, and we’ve now seen all the images in the mirror disappear. For exactly the reasons you describe, Gary.

Nice writing.

Also, someone said, or I dreamed it: The past is dead; the present is self-aggrandizement; and the only thing we have and can share is our dreams for the future.

]]> By: blowin in the wind http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/the-future-that-never-comes-the-past-that-never-was-the-present-inscrutable/#comment-27200 blowin in the wind Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:37:15 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2719#comment-27200 Thanks Gary. I had thought sanity had disappeared from the world along with the world itself. Please live forever. Thanks Gary. I had thought sanity had disappeared from the world along with the world itself. Please live forever.

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