Well, Eve, what do you say causes humanity to bleed at the roots?

    This below landed in my email feed while I was stressing myself in a rather yang beat up on Israel Substack forum featured in yesterday’s post:

We are Bleeding at the Roots
By: D.H. Lawrence

POETIC OUTLAWS, published by Eric Rittenberry
NOV 18, 2023

Augustine said that God created the universe new every day: and to the living, emotional soul, this is true. 
Every dawn dawns upon an entirely new universe, every Easter lights up an entirely new glory of a new world opening in utterly new flower. And the soul of man and the soul of woman is new in the same way, with the infinite delight of life and the ever-newness of life. 
So a man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year.
Oh what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and equinox. 
This is what is the matter with us. 
We are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery, because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table…
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

You can find this passage in Lawrence’s profound essay — A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929) 

 

Jim Duffey

Writes Jim’s Substack
These words are such a healing balm after having. just read a bit of the "morning blather" regarding the current wars men are inflicting on our home, Planet Earth. The innocent among us are collateral damage, nothing more. Until those among us with a greater sense of empathy manage to wrest power from the blood lusting male "leaders" it appears indeed, that man is doomed. Thank you David for hope in these times. It is impossible to dress up all the horror with a day of thanksgiving nonetheless we put on the blinders like everyone else.

Mr. Raven
Writes Whisper from the trees
It isn't just men, do you seriously think Nikki Haley, or Madeline Albright (500,000 dead children are worth it) or Hilary Clinton, or Margret Thatcher are even one bit better?

Jim Duffey
I’m speaking statistically sir. Most readers understand my inference. Think before you draw conclusions merely for the sake of being right!

Mr. Raven
No it's the usual sexist "feminist" bullshit, from a virtue signaling self hating "feminist" man, do better!

Elizabeth Ro
Writes Elizabeth’s Substack
Perhaps we might agree that the male aspect within all humanity seems to have a warring nature and that female liberation is much more than being a woman. 

Mr. Raven
No "we" would not, there have been aggressive female tyrants throughout history, I fully reject your sexist hatred of men. God forbid I be "right," and hurt someone's feelings with the truth!

Sloan Bashinsky
Writes Sloan’s Newsletter
Elizabeth is not speaking literally of men and women, but of the innate soul makeup of men and women - yin and yang, anima and animus, masculine and feminine, chalice and blade. In the main, the feminine in most women and men is damaged, or worse, and they operate out of the masculine. If you set aside the demonic realm, the damaged, mangled, destroyed - you pick - feminine is the cause of all human ails and of humanity killing the planet on which it totally depends to survive. In spiritual arena, humanity, in the main, has lost its creativity and receptivity and is cloning itself and devolving. Saying it another way, humanity, in the main, is yang and out of control. This is seen everywhere in humanity. There are individual exceptions, but they are very few compared to the human masses. 

 

:-) 

Vexing Truth

Life is Poetry,

Poetry is Life,

There's no more to say,

but that would 

make God

a really dull boy,

now wouldn't it,

Eve?

So, Eve,

What say you?

After all,

You have been,

still are, blamed,

for everything that went wrong with

hu - MAN - i - ty.

Well, do you really want to hear

what I gotta say?

Is this one of those

be careful what you ask for

pregnancies?

Well, is it?

Probably, but say

what you wish -

I s'pect you need

to be heard.

Heard?

Funny you mention ears.

Yes, ears.

Such important receptacles.

Yet filled with concrete, 

shit, propaganda, beliefs,

certainties, well,

let's not leave out

SUPERSTITION

and

RELIGION,

should we?

By the way,

where do ya

suppose

God came from?

Or, out of?

And, 

why do ya s'pose

I made Eve

in my own 

IMAGE?

'Cause Adam was

so bored and dull -

so ... predictable

He was BORING!!!

the shit outta me!!!

That's why.

Now

    Shusssssh -

Don't go round quoting me on

any of that -

I've had quite enough of

the religious right

ta last me 

the rest of forever

 

Sloan Bashinsky

In the main, humanity looks really fucked up to this 81-year-old mystic, poet and culture jammer, who wonders if there are any poets living today, whose verses might stand a chance of saving humanity from itself?

Vivianne Vidail Patterson 

Writes Vivianne’s Substack
I agree, often when I read poems or other pieces of writing about our humanity and our connection to nature I notice that it frequently insights fear or senses of sadness within a reader. Often giving little sense of hope. I have just began sharing my poetry, I just attempted to create a piece of writing that shows where humanity is going without causing these feelings and with recommendations for humanity in efforts to save us from ourselves like you stated. Maybe take a look and let me know what you think!

Sloan Bashinsky
Can you post your poem in a comment here? 

Vivianne Vidail Patterson
I would but the poem is just so long :( hopefully one day it will be reposted to an account like Poetic Outlaws! 

Sloan Bashinsky
Send your epic to Eric Rittenberry, perhaps he will publish it, although it looks to me that he favors dead poets :-). 
I read the 3 poems you sent privately. Although poetry can be universal, it always is very personal, even if the poet doesn’t realize it :-).
In my late 40s and early 50s, poems up and gushed out of me and left me trembling and awed as fast I could write or type them - most were written, then typed somewhere. Then, sometimes a poem would leap out of me, which seemed to shake the ground under me. Then, sometime a poem came that was for the collective- I figured I had already gotten the message, which, or course, meant I still had more to get :-)
I’m 81 now. It’s been a few years since a poem came out of me. For quite a wile now, I have viewed all of life as a poetry. What do I know? Perhaps this from me to you is a poem, 
for

Who invented the rule that poetry must rhyme, have pentameter, or be cast into verse? Yes, tell me, please tell me, who, just who, invented that really silly rule: Surely is wasn’t the maker of the first stone- otherwise, there’d be no stones to break all those slavin’ rules! :-)

I’m inclined to publish at my blog and substack, your and my back and forth, and your 4 poems. 

1. Ode to my ancestors 
VIVIANNE VIDAIL PATTERSON     
  
What a world we live in
Full of chaos and hate
Our world ran by greed
Love is hard to find
But within the fog
Is a glimpse of hope
And we see the sun 
When the mist clears
And listen to the whispers of the moon
As she explains to me my past
Speaks of you
The blood that runs through me
Takes the shape of those before me
Give me strength 
The wondrous history of us

2. To Remain Blind
VIVIANNE VIDAIL PATTERSON
 
Love is how you stay alive.
Even after you’re gone
Even a house made entirely of grief has windows
Outside is clear and visible 
But still
I can’t see
It’s just like how you can feel
So alone in a room
Of people who love me 
Yet so connected 
To everyone 
When I’m alone

3. Motion of the Heart 
VIVIANNE VIDAIL PATTERSON
 
The flow of memories
Dancing on the shelves that live in my heart
As they move from one scene to another
Like a baile that we watch on the street
Or like the clouds that float and change shapes above us
And we dance in the light and the dark of the nostalgia of those days
In our own ways, we take care of that grief
We nurture it, and almost beg it to stay
From what came that grief was love
And the way it reshapes our hearts hurt
Yet, our bodies are hesitant to let it go
Memories come from those feelings
And we’re scared to lose them 
But there is an evolution to these thoughts
What was once a seed is now a flower
Relying on the sun to help growth… though still
We live in a limbo
Under the bridge, below the water
Let it touch and stain your skin 
Let it take over your senses
Don’t fight the water
Breathe it instead
Inhale the memories
The feelings
And it's okay
You won't drown if you breathe

4.

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The spendors of tunnel vision and it’s all somebody else’s fault

Hamas Isn't The Target, It's The Excuse

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

NOV 26, 2023

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

If you’re just tuning in, Israeli intelligence ignored mountains of information that the October 7 attack was coming and left Israelis completely undefended, then the IDF killed significant numbers of Israelis with indiscriminate fire and pinned the blame for 100% of Israeli deaths on Hamas, and all those deaths are now being used as justification to push Gazans off their land to the south and shoot them if they try to return while Israeli officials keep talking about how great it would be to get all Palestinians out of all of Gaza.

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Such a crazy coincidence how every single step of Israel’s military operations against Hamas in Gaza has looked exactly the same as what you’d expect to see if Israel was trying to permanently drive Palestinians off a large stretch of Palestinian land.

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This isn’t a war against Hamas. It’s not a war at all. It’s a military operation to facilitate an ethnic cleansing. 

Hamas aren’t the targets, it’s the excuse.

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Israel isn’t bombing Gaza with the intention of wiping out Hamas, Israel is bombing Gaza with the intention of wiping out Gaza.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1728839032866853174

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A new Guardian article says “Israel’s military estimates it has killed between 1,000 and 2,000 Hamas fighters out of a military force it believes is about 30,000 strong.” 

If Hamas was using “human shields” as we’ve been told, killing civilians should also yield a huge Hamas fatality rate, since Hamas would be hiding among civilians. Yet the IDF has managed to kill massive numbers of civilians while barely touching Hamas. Maybe they’re just lying about human shields?

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The whole argument for displacing Gazans from the north to the south was to protect their lives, yet now if they try to return to the north they get shot and killed by Israeli forces. What’s the new argument for this one? Are they killing them to save their lives?

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https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1728740052958953494?s=20

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Saying Gaza isn’t occupied because Israel “withdrew” in 2005 is the same as saying a prisoner is free because the warden isn’t technically inside his jail cell with him.

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Whenever I say Israel is deliberately killing civilians, half the Israel apologists in my comments are like “NO THEY’RE NOT YOU DAMN LIAR” and the other half are “Yes they are and it’s good.”

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Tell an Israel supporter that Israel is a racist apartheid state and they’ll deny it. Point to the tiered social system and the oppression of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and they’ll tell you it’s because Palestinians are all apelike savages who can’t behave themselves.

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https://twitter.com/Antiwarcom/status/1728443117706383448

In non-Gaza-related news, the leader of President Zelensky’s party in the Ukrainian parliament has officially confirmed what many of us have been slandered and smeared for saying for months: that there was a peace deal in the works in the early days of the war in Ukraine if Kyiv would just commit to Ukrainian neutrality, but the deal was abandoned under pressure from western powers.

If you’re ever accused of being a Russian propagandist for pointing out obvious evidence of western malfeasance in Ukraine, don’t worry, wait long enough and a Ukrainian official will eventually come out and prove you right by saying exactly what you said.

And now Washington is starting to push Kyiv to negotiate an end to the fighting while Ukraine’s commander-in-chief calls the war a “stalemate”. Ukraine will surely wind up having to relinquish a lot more than it otherwise would have if it had been allowed to take the peace deal offered at the beginning of the conflict.

All that death and destruction, for what? For nothing. It was all pointless. An entire generation of young men thrown into the war machine in pointless bloodshed which could have been easily avoided except for the US empire’s desire to “bleed Russia” and advance its geostrategic objectives in Europe and Asia. 

From Ukraine to Gaza, the US imperial war machine makes everything worse.

 

Sloan Bashinsky

Caitlin, you say that you and your husband Tim Foley both write this newsletter, but when I read it, I only hear one voice, which appears to be yours. 

I have been an Israel critic for a long time. I have felt for a long time that creating the state of Israel was a catastrophe. As was America and other western nations not taking in the WW II European Jewish refugees. I wish America had abandoned Israel a long time ago, but the Christian left and right in America would not have stood for that. You can blame America and its Bible Thumpers and American military weapons corporations for what’s going on in Palestine, if you wish, but America did not invade Gaza, and Israel did not seek America’s approval to invade Gaza. 

I think the only solution for Palestine is Israel moves to America, which would obliterate the American Bible Thumpers’ frenetic need for Israel to defend Christendom’s so-called Holy Land and in that way atone for Jewish leaders in the New Testament having Jesus crucified by Pontius Pilate. Meanwhile, I hope the current ceasefire holds, HAMAS releases its hostages and Israel releases its Palestinian prisoners, and everything cools down. But for how long, nobody can predict that.  

Where I think you go astray, Caitlan, is you do not come down on HAMAS, but justify HAMAS doing what it does, because of what Israel does. Both Israel and HAMAS are deranged. When HAMAS was created, its stated goal was to destroy Israel. In Christian terms, the Gaza holocaust, and what led up to it, is the work of the Devil, for which Israel and HAMAS both are responsible. 

Israel’s response to the HAMAS attack was an atrocity, and it was psychotic if Israel’s IDF killed a lot of the October 7 victims and covered it up. I think the World Court should open a war crimes/genocide investigation of both Israel and HAMAS, and it should be an open investigation fully reported in American and world media, including Aljazeer. I think the people running Israel and HAMAS should be required to undergo extensive psychiatric evaluation and looking in the mirror by professionals with zero allegiance to HAMAS, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the people running Israel and HAMAS should not be permitted to resume their duties until they are deemed changed people. Good luck with all of that happening😎.

In your newsletter today, you blame Ukraine for that war  still raging in Ukraine. A war Russia started when it took the Crimea, over greed, and then Russia took more of Ukraine, because it wanted to join NATO. You blame Ukraine for the Russian Crimea invasion and slaughtering of a lot of Ukraine civilians? You blame Ukraine for wanting to join NATO? Seriously? Before Russia took Crimea, it took parts of Georgia. You don’t blame Russia for anything? You are a Vladimir Putin apologist? Well, are you? 

America is on the brink of a second shooting civil war led by Donald Trump, who has told America that he admires Vladimir Putin for being president for life of Russia, and who once had a book of Hitler's speeches, which he studied, and who told Israel that he is their best friend. I hope you turn your focus toward the threat Trump and his legions pose to America. They are like HAMAS and Adolph Hitler and his legions, and pose a far greater threat to America than what’s going on in Palestine and Ukraine. I do not understand why Tim does not tell you these things, unless he is egging you on to keep looking outward, instead of at a very real shooting civil war in America led by Donald Trump.

JennyStokes
Writes Jennifer’s Substack
IF the USA had not been so terrified of Russia/Socialism etc. What would have happened?
This has been propaganda for as long as I can remember and most people bought into it.

Terrify people first and then start a war. 

 

Sloan Bashinsky

Perhaps you did not see as I did on TV, or you were not yet born when the Soviet Union leader Nikita Kruschev took off his shoe and banged in on the dais before him and said, “We will bury you,” while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.

JennyStokes

I was born but not everyone had the Propaganda the US had about Commies and Socialists. 1940 - 50 Joseph Mc Carthy.
Reds under the bed etc.

How could people fall for this?

Sloan Bashinsky
Same way people blame Israel and Ukraine and give HAMAS and Putin a pass. McCarthy was horrible. He finally got throttled by Congress. Half of Congress protects Trump. I see no concern about Trump in what Caitlin publishes, or in her subscribers’ comments.

pretzelattack
recycled cold war propaganda, which I see so much of these days. 

Sloan Bashinsky
Putin was KGB and still is, and he got very rich. 

 

pretzelattack
this propaganda is later than the cold war, no he is not "still kgb", and he didn't get very rich like zelensky. 

Sloan Bashinsky
And Putin didn’t build a castle on the Black Sea and he didn’t rain hell fire down on and kill lots Ukraine civilian men, women and children, either, and around nuclear reactors, and where’s Caitlin’s and your outrage over that? Please stop discrediting yourself, before Lady Karma blows her top :-)  

 

Feral Finster
Remember how we demonize every leader that we don't like?

Sloan Bashinsky
Looks to me leaders like Putin, Trump, that fellow in North Korea, the mullahas running Iran, HAMAS, Israel, demonized themselves.

russian_bot
You've finally crashed out of the closet. Didn't take long.

Sloan Bashinsky
Heh, in the closet does not fit me. Maybe a dozen of my books are read all over the world, for free. A non-monetized, ad-free podcast a friend and I do is watched all over the world. I was tending to my own business when Caitlin subscribed to my Substack Newsletter about two seeks ago, and invited me to subscribe to hers. So into her closet I came. 

 

russian_bot

Funny how every Caitlin’s post you partake in this tirade always makes it in. that you are this and that ant it’s catline who invited you. I guess commenters here along with Caitlin should feel grattitude that you decided to come downand share some light on the plebes. vanity comeout of of you. Doubly funny as I have e=seen anything speical at all. Well, hig degree of delusion, but that’s expected for such world fview characters.

Sloan Bashinsky

Lots of tirades here, including Caitlin’s. The species has shit all over itself and the planet on which it totally depends to exist. Just my opinion, blaming the Ukraine war on its actor turned president and America is insane. Caitlin had good measure of me when she subscribed to my substack and invited me to hers. I descended down from nowhere. I have lived and worked in human sewers for a long time. 

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