Dimensionally Barrett

John Barrett - Between us, 2020, spray paint, acrylic This is the first and hopefully, one of the few times, when I'll just write a post off the top of my head. I'm not going to set any links to supporting documents, no footnotes, no appendices or further reading.  Someone close to me opined that there's all this writing about the current state of affairs, that people are angry and protesting but it's not doing any good. That we know all this stuff and still the Republicans with their Stooge-in-Chief are wreaking havoc on the country and the world. But that none of the outrage matters.  I took issue with that assessment.  I still do. Look, no one reads this blog, a few people engage with me on FB but for the most part, I prefer using the blog as a way of making sense of the issues around us. It's my sandbox that I leave up in case people want to discuss, teach me a few things, maybe even talk among themselves. To be sure, to be redundant, no one reads the blog, so s...

The United States has become a pariah state. Not just a failed state, but a hazard to the well-being of the rest of the world through its dysfunctional approach to governance and public health and well-being. With the failure to respond in any meaningful fashion to the Coronavirus pandemic , the White House administration and its enablers have rent the fabric of society beyond anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. It's not just a matter of political division, it’s a failure to recognize facts and an inability to accept the reality at hand . And this has been the issue since day one of this administration, from Steve Bannon’s earliest announcing that he was here to “ deconstruct government ” to Kellyanne Conway’s much repeated and now accepted nihilistic philosophy of “ alternative facts ” (most people call them “lies”). What follows are some of the events that I’ve held in mind well up to today (July 23, 2020) and what sense we can make of them and where we can go from here. To be...