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Look Hard Enough, You Just Might See the Seeds of Light Amidst the Darkness Surrounding: Where There Is Hope and What Did You Expect Awakening to Look Like?

Posted on August 7, 2013 by sillymickel

Rebirthing Rituals, the Hard Rain Fallin’, and the Value of Popular Culture in Awakening: The Price of Peace Is Inner Sight … Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits Chapter Ten: Where There Is Hope, Cultural Rebirthing Societal Self-Analysis and … Continue reading →

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Creeped Out in the Womb, The Itches We Cannot Scratch, and the Deepest Roots of OCD, Bigotry, and Holocaust: Prenatal Revulsion and Loss of the “Golden Age”

Posted on June 11, 2013 by sillymickel

Why We Tattoo, Sun-Bathe, Hate Hippies and Immigrants and Jews, and Obsessively Clean Our Homes: The Roots of the Tea Party and Nazi Narratives of Loss of a Golden Age in Prenatal Irritation-Revulsion Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Ten: Prenatal … Continue reading →

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“Yes, We Can” Proved We Could: In Spite of Dumbness Being a Commodity for the 1% and the Media Become the New Opiate of the Masses, Still, Something Wonderful Can Happen

Posted on November 6, 2012 by sillymickel

To Our Amazement, Charlie Brown Connected, Lucy Apologized, a Man Who Said “Yes We Can,” Would: Anything Is Possible … Means Everything Is Possible Culture War, Class War, Chapter 23: Something Wonderful Can Happen There Are Good Reasons Why Our … Continue reading →

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Remember … “Yes, We Can” Proved We Could: Wonderful Can Happen, Part Three — Amazingly, Charlie Brown Connects

Posted on November 6, 2012 by sillymickel

Shaken Out of Our Mental Maze, We Would Be A-Mazed: Lucy Apologizes, Sisyphus Rests, A Man Who Said “Yes We Can,” Would Why Know This? Amazingly, Charlie Brown Connects So, these things we know. They are sobering rationalizations and ones … Continue reading →

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Societal Self-Analysis and Talk Show Soul-Searching for Peace … Sorry, I Know You Wanted to Hate Reality Shows: Rebirthing Rituals, Part – 6

Posted on September 26, 2012 by sillymickel

The Price of Peace Is Inner Sight: Rebirthing Rituals, Part – 6: Societal Self-Analysis, an Internet Reformation, and Talk Show Soul-Searching for Peace Societal Self-Analysis Culture War Replaced Cold War We see the workings of these opposing tendencies to look … Continue reading →

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The Great American About Face: Context of The American Awakening – Cool Hand Gipper (The Great Hustle) and What the 1% Would Still Have of Us

Posted on August 12, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Thirteen: The Great American About Face Once Upon a Time, Kindness Was a Noble Thing Why Insist on the Same Mistakes That Led to the Great Depression? You don’t know what I’m getting at. But … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 23: “Don’t Bug Me!” … Culture Wars, Hating Hippies, and Having Obsessively Clean Homes, But Tolerating Pollution – Prenatal Irritation/Revulsion

Posted on June 21, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Twenty-Three: Prenatal Irritation/Revulsion Imprints Us for Intolerance of Others, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, and Super-Tidy Homes … “Don’t Bug Me!” How We Act This Out—Politically and Environmentally To review, in the womb (1) we are surrounded by … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 17: Hunger Games: Prenatal Oxygen Hunger and Its Political Imprints – Greed, Oppression, Sycophancy, Class War, Revolution

Posted on June 7, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Seventeen: Fetal Malnutrition and Politics: Prenatal Roots of Greed, Sycophancy, Class War, and Revolution Prenatal Roots of War In a previous section I mentioned how our human tendency to warring has its roots in the … Continue reading →

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Context of The American Awakening: Cool Hand Gipper (The Great Hustle) and What the 1% Would Still Have of Us

Posted on May 21, 2012 by sillymickel

The Great American About Face, Part Three: American Awakening and Cool Hand Gipper—“Obvious Truths,” an Overview “Obvious Truths” Parts One and Two Reprise This is the third and final part in this series delineating the history of the American Republican’ … Continue reading →