March 2, 2015
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You have to take the long
view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already
progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism
was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a
boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any
effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact."
-- I.F. Stone, when asked by fellow journalist John Neary
how "he could stand shoveling the same shit year after year
after year, covering the same poltroons explaining and miscreants
committing the same miserable malfeasances."
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Made me recall some Tim Mason poetry — "Gently, like water, cracking stone, the droplet finds the granite's fault and changes the face of the mountain with persistence & patience...gently, like water, cracking stone."
Occassionally I like to be the granite upon which they crash the ship of state.
and the people they were talking about presumably were Hubert Humphrey, LBJ, JFK, Dirksen, Robert C, Byrd on one side and Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood and Edward R. Murrow on the other. So yeah, it all crumbled down to like Ted Cruz and Bill O'Reilly. Something like going from criticizing Eugene Ormandy for overdoing the strings on Rachmaninoff #3, to getting dished a diet of Spike Jones.
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