Meltdown of the Trendies

A huge turning point. Perhaps the defining turning point of this entire dramatic act of history.  Now it is a worldwide movement. If you felt the tectonic plates of world politics rumbling over the last few days this was part of it. That tremor was the moral center of gravity shifting under your feet.

Pope Francis is a useful guy to the Left, but the Dalai Lama is different. He's a serious spiritual leader. 

Lots of anguish coming down the pike for lots of people whose belief-systems are based on the continuation of certain things.

Tip: if you've been basing your political understanding of the present and immediate future on superficial analogies to things that happened many decades ago, under very different circumstances and in a very different kind of world, then I respectively suggest for your own mental well-being that you may need to take stock of the situation and re-evaluate. This is one of those times of history where in order to stay sane, you are going to have to be nimble with such things.

Re-evaluate.

Many will lose their minds...

The Broad Art Center, UCLA campus.

May 31, 2016. A young woman protests the Milo Yannopoulis lecture on the UCLA campus. There is something about the young woman in the videos It's so raw.. It almost seems like she is giving a guerilla performance art (appropriately it's in front of the art department), but no performance could be so authentic. At the end of the second video, she has a certain awareness of the weirdness of it all as the people around her laugh. She seems to be wondering: what did I just do? 

from politico.eu, June 1, 2016

“And morally speaking, I think that refugees can only be taken in on a temporary basis. The goal should be to return them and help them to rebuild their own countries,” he added." (from the article)

Meme found at /r/The_Donald.

Ah, you've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks
You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books
You're very well-read, it's well-known

Recorded Aug. 2, 1965, Columbia Studios, New York

 

Obama 6.1.2016: "If we fall for a bunch of okie doke, just because it sounds funny, or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress that we started."