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Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:42:56 -0500

elmussol

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elmussol is now connected to semibot

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:37:04 -0500

elmussol

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elmussol is now connected to Sebastien Huss

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:02:26 -0500

elmussol

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elmussol is now connected to Alex ⚡

not #tzag but #sag

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 06:57:18 -0500

elmussol

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Seasonally appropriate greetings to you all.

#tzag #sag

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 07:06:55 -0500

Thank you, best wishes to all at Els Mussols! :-)

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 07:41:46 -0500

Happy solstice adjacent holidays to you as well, @elmussol! May you find it filled with family, joy, and hope.

baker's dozen

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:27:20 -0500

elmussol

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@els Mussols Thirteen years ago today, we left Sheffield to start our Catalan adventure.

life

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Sun, 22 Dec 2019 07:59:08 -0500

Viva Els Mussols! :-) I learned something else today - why is a baker's dozen 13?

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Sun, 22 Dec 2019 12:31:42 -0500

whistlewright ????

whistlewright@zap.dog

Congratulations!

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 14:15:43 -0500

Amazing! I was married shortly afterwards 13 years ago. It sounds like we both had some big life changes at around the same time.

you don't have to believe to enjoy

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:45:13 -0500

elmussol

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!Music In my earlier life I did a lot of choral and group harmony singing. I did it for long enough that I started soprano and ended up baritone (where I am now). So I have sung this (and the larger work from which it comes) in a concert hall as a soprano, an alto, a tenor and a bass. This rendition is #a-word.

https://youtu.be/pRhjWdr-LAA

#gfhandel

music

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:25:15 -0500

Silent Monks sing...

UK election

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:03:27 -0500

elmussol

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#wtf

politics

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Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:16:51 -0500

Michael

mike@narrow.world

:-(

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 03:36:00 -0500

Emanuel

emanuel@labonneheure.ch

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 04:16:04 -0500

elmussol

elmussol@elsmussols.net

Not just turkeys voting for Christmas, but turkeys voting for a weekly Christmas. I am baffled by the world.

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:38:42 -0500

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Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:50:50 -0500

When you participate in feudal or democratic elections - you are just participate in legitimization of this governments and their neocolonial politics.

By the way, it's like initiating a repetition of this his torical scenario.

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:55:31 -0500

elmussol

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Oh I don't, but it does reveal some of a population's mindset. You don't have to participate to draw conclusions.

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:26:17 -0500

@elmussol

Oh I don't, but it does reveal some of a population's mindset. You don't have to participate to draw conclusions.

Representative democracy in any case deprives the population of the opportunity to participate in decision-making. Voters (especially in Anglican bipartisan systems) are excluded from participating in decision-making. The role of voters is to legitimize the decisions of representatives.
In my opinion, it is better not to participate in this at all, to avoid communication and promotion of the agendas set by politicians, as they do in Zomia:
#^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Not_Being_Governed
In my opinion, it's the perfect option to strive for.
Of course, the majority of Westerners benefit from the participation and legitimization of politicians' decisions, so they are so selflessly involved in promoting "representative democracy" around the world.

Also, i'm increasingly convinced that I'm not reporting any "revelations". As far as i understand, most Westerners understand it all perfectly:

Mostly, the fact is not always that the ‘population in the West is brainwashed’. That would really be quite a good scenario: and something relatively easy to correct.

The problem is much greater: The inhabitants of the West do not want to know, because deep inside, they do not want the system to change. They don’t want the world order to be modified.

They intuitively feel that if what is being proposed by Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and other countries were implemented, their personal privileges would vanish. Their countries would become equal to all other countries on earth; they would have to obey international laws, and their people would be forced to work hard for their living. Plundering the planet would be banned. Privileges would stop.

Therefore, it is better ‘not to know’, not to understand. This way, the ‘pie’, or call it ‘carrot’, would not be lost.

The ‘ignorance’in the West, I believe, is subconsciously ‘self-inflicted’. With knowledge, comes responsibility. With responsibility, an obligation to act (because not to act would be clearly immoral). All this could only lead to the loss of privileges.

The propagandists of the West are very well aware of the situation. I was told by some leading psychologists, that both psychiatrists and psychologists are employed and used in the process of ‘shaping the public opinion’, therefore, working for propaganda-makers. They study and analyze the ‘mood of the public’. They know public’s desires and aspirations.

All this is not as easy as it appears, is it?

Sadly, there is a silent (unpronounced and unsigned) agreement between the Western public and its establishment, as well as the corporate world, that the status quo should be maintained at all cost (paid for by “the others”); the West should be controlling the planet, and at least some part of the booty has to be shared among the (Western) masses.

What they are fighting over on the streets of Paris and other European cities is ‘how big the part of the pie that goes to the pockets of the common European people’ should be. There is absolutely no struggle to end the plunder of the world by the West.

I think this is the reason for the continuing democrazy agitation of Westerners for all this elections, although the most privileged of them still live in feudal realms.

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:30:12 -0500

elmussol

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Thanks Pete.

#^Pete Cogle's Podcast Factory: PCP#629… Please Do Not Sit On The Fence….

#^mp3 download

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:43:21 -0500

elmussol

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elmussol is now connected to Adam Robertson

funky 16 times with a side order of funk

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:08:45 -0500

elmussol

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!Music Box !Music Long-term connections will be fully aware of my love of all things funky. A major source of my diet of funk is the always rewarding Larry Grogan -- his weekly Funky16Corners Radio Show is required listening in our house.
#^This week's show popped up and got to the top of the queue while I was cooking. I was delighted to find that Larry has decided to up the funk quotient this week.

So give yourself a funky hour. It will do you good.

#^mp3 download

#funky16corners #containsfunk

ping: @jəˈrunˈprɑːt