Silly me - just discovering Joe Bageant - great blog here and great book (Deer Hunting with Jesus) here.I have been struggling as you can all see to make sense out of what is happening. In my struggles I keep meeting wonderful people who are equally perplexed and also like me unable to buy back into the world I left.Joe ends an outstanding article about this group of people and our collective "depression" with this quote from E M Forster. E. M. Forster described them as,"Not an aristocracy of power, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes and through the ages, and they know each other when they meet. ... Authority, seeing their value, tries to net them and to utilize them. ... But they slip through the net and are gone; when the door is shut they are no longer in the room; Their temple is the Holiness of the Heart's Imagination, and their kingdom, though they never possess it, is the wide open world."In this they are deathless.Like periwinkles.
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