Daniel: Yes. We broke up, actually, over the Vietnam War...we were apart for three years. When we got together again in 1969, I had already started copying the Pentagon Papers and expected to go to prison for life when they came out...It was on August 8, 1973, our third anniversary, that Nixon announced his resignation. This was not really foreseeable and it would not have happened were it not for Nixon's fear that I had other documents that would reveal the nuclear threats he had made against North Vietnam.
This is astonishing, as we are often led to believe by the MSM that their publication of The Pentagon Papers, outlining an acknowledged campaign of failure in Viet Nam, was what made Ellsberg such a hero.
And then, it hits you, like a freight train, the realization that the MIC Ike warned us against in 1960, and who do things everywhere in our name, are f*cking evil, not just misguided. Ellsberg's sure that had Nixon not resigned, he'd have been murdered. Richter posits:
Yes, and what will happen when the ice melts with global warming? Will this cause the release of viruses and bacteria that existed millions of years ago and were frozen in the ice?
Ellsberg doesn't answer the drama queen. But he did go on to pitch The Doomsday Machine, his latest book.
And then there's this exchange between Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Yanis Varoufakis in "Snake Oil or Socialism":
Pink: ...Socialism is a dirty word where I live, in America, but it is not a dirty idea. It is the only idea, in my view, that can find a way through the darkness of the world that we live in, to the possible light at the possible end of a possible tunnel that might allow our children and grandchildren to live".
Varoufakis: That is why I have a soft spot for the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists during the civil war, who had black and red in their flag: red to signify revolution and black to signify the darkness in the soul of each one of us, which we must always be aware of because it can rise up and put us in our own gulags, as has happened so many times.
Pass the bong.
Everything Must Change! has all kinds of textual satisfactions and topical delectations. Larry Charles of Seinfeld and SreÄ"ko Horvat cavort in "Hope and Humor in Times of Coronavirus." Charles, who directed Borat and has written for Seinfeld, and tried to direct Dylan in Masked and Anonymous, was on his game with Horvat. The best bit was when Horvat recalled an episode from Seinfeld titled "I Don't Have A Square to Spare," written by Charles.
Larry: Yes, that's one that I wrote actually! The idea that someone wouldn't share their toilet paper struck me as a funny idea, but now we see that people are very possessive of their toilet paper, to the extent that it's being hoarded and people are fighting over it in the supermarkets.
One recalls Trump tossing out rolls of paper towels, but the imagination could easily picture Trump as a poop Nazi, people lined up for blocks for TP, grilled at the counter by Trump; to get a roll you had to convince him you were a flaming a**hole. God help you if you got yourself banned for life. Then what would you do?
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