NO, NOT AN ECLIPSE…

Published April 14, 2024 by Nan Mykel

DO YOU REMEMBER ? It was recently mentioned that the U.S. military has an agreement with a private corporation (Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri) dating back to 1941 to supply ammunition or guns when needed, and this particular company has recently been a source for several AK 47’s in private hands being used in mass shootings in the U.S. At one point President Biden determined to sever the connection, but opposition apparently stalled that intent.

The AK-47 is the deadliest weapon ever built, on the whole. Its kill count even tops nuclear weapons in sheer numbers (https://www.military.com), and although illegal, you can still buy a fully automatic AK-47. But when more ammunition or guns are needed by the Army, they become rapidly available via this US-owned, contracted-out enterprise. Check me out on Google–it is rather complicated.

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The comparison I’m making is between facilitating a potentially dangerous enterprise for the country and extending almost limitless power to Elon Musk and his giant for-profit space enterprise, with the backing of NASA. It just occurred to me how much power his outfit will have over…earthlings?

Over the internet I was mistaken for a company, and received an advertisement from someone to make my computer connections work with less interference. With that, I realized who holds the cards in this, our self-made card game. I hate to mention it, but Mr. Musk does not appear to be a very nice man. (And A.I. is on the loose).

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Tell me I’m mistaken….

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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE

We survived the eclipse, way out in Ohio. More anon.

End of the Dream for d’Verse

Published April 7, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Can’t pick up rocks no more

’cause something’s under there

just a-waiting to suck your blood

and pull out all your hair.

Can’t trust nuttin’ any more

It’s all rotted through

The young’uns won’t never know

how wishes might come true.

POWERLESSNESS

Published February 5, 2017 by Nan Mykel

From FALLOUT: A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (and Others) by moi:

Herman(2000, 98) remarks that “as guardians of the incest secret, survivors have been warned time and again that they could bring disaster upon their families by revealing what they know. Ironically, the victim of incest has been handed the power to destroy the family, yet the double bind she is in renders her powerless to act.”

DeYoung (1982, 51) cites one victim who said, “Okay, here I am, 12 years old and my father’s screwing me practically every night. If I tell someone he goes to jail, my brothers and sister won’t speak to me, and my mom will have a heart attack or something. But if I let him keep screwing me I’ll go nuts. So what do I do? Tell my folks I need a weekend alone at the Holiday Inn to think things over; or go to the corner bar to have a few drinks and discuss it with my pals? No, I pack up my clothes, rob my piggy bank, stick out my thumb and split. And I keep on splitting every time the cops catch me and bring me home.”

It may very well be that a large number of teenage suicides are youths who find themselves in a similar no-win situation, prevented from even leaving a suicide note , keeping the secret until the end and beyond. “There is no way out, no place to run.” (Summit, 1983, 184). (p. 161)

According to Gaddini (1983, 357), years after the incest, survivors who did not report often wished they had, and those who did report wished they had not.” (p. 162)