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Walden Mathews's avatar

Dear Caitlin,

Your insights and honesty are world class, and your shoe size, well that's between you and your local cordwainer, but like the saint Wenceslas, where you tread, minds and hearts are thawed. Yet you feel small. Somehow that's right.

My reaction to this kind of news is the same. When those we've silently filed in our unconscious as parents perish, we are forced to evaluate again what "alone" really means.

My father used to say to me, "Wald, parents hate to see their kids grow up, because it means they're (parents) getting old!". But it works the other way too. We are left with nothing but ourselves to cling to or hide behind or ... grow a few shoe sizes.

On a less emotional note, I'd like to plot a dot or two and imply a connection. Here goes. Many of the covid Vax deaths have manifested as very rapidly developing cancers. A former friend of mine was diagnosed and then dead in about two weeks, from a supposed kidney cancer his exams never detected before. Physicians and family in amazement. Is it too big of a stretch to wonder if particularly troublesome citizens and journalists are being stealthily removed with a weapon technology that can alter body tissue, either through ingestion or microwave or other insidious radiation, so that a virulent and unstoppable deadly cancer results?

Yes, fuck cancer. And especially if it's the weapon used in a first degree murder. (I don't need a tinfoil hat anymore. My body fluids are all saturated with nanoparticles of aluminum. Probably.)

Walden

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

We will miss you, Dan Ellsberg. We Vietnam-era anti-war fossils are falling like dominoes. Every morning I awaken to draw breath is a surprise to me. But is it "fuck war, fuck cancer" or shall we take the broader perspective and scream "fuck a narcissistic greed-driven system of concupiscence that reifies "MORE", a system that deifies war, setting us from a once-pristine and logically functioning natural system, into one which now seethes with hugely diverse toxicity. Because placing acquisitiveness above all else generates both the psychological conditions that promote enslavement and internecine conflict, and deposits its residuum of a ridiculous diversity of un-remediated un-recycled waste in direct contravention to that natural system's operation. In short, fuck corporate Capitalism. And bless the peacemakers.

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