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Senor Pescado. I appreciate the kudo at the bottom of your note. For me, as you might know, I am a systems thinker, which is beyond just higher order thinker. It is not just holisitic thinking. It is not just thinking across curricula. It is beyond knowing the forms of all rhetoric, and understanding those at least Nine Forms of Nazi-Marketing Propaganda.

The mind is mysterious, for sure, but there are archetypes out there, both thinkers and those emoting. We can't look at phrenology to determine shit, other than racialist and racist eugenics crap. It's upbringing, it's SEE -- significant emotional events, both positive and adverse. Socio-economic determinents of health-economic-education-psychological outcomes. I won't go on, but to thank you for the comments, and, after 66 years of all the fandangos and beautifully crazy shit I experienced, both voluntarily and involunarily plus all the thinking ("you're thinking too much, boy, so there is a failure to communicate my asshole stuff . . ." was a typical comment when I was young or around military or what have you), I see the big picture, man, and the wonder of it all in small things, man, small things. I think of the Thin Red Line as an amazing film, book, and alas, most people hated it, but loved Slathering Private Ryan. Those small things, man, like harmonious lives on islands and the beauty of real people, facing the fuck up of war, that is what kicks ass on The Thin Red Line.

Now, actually, that 40 trillion dollar debt, accounting for each USA taxpayer, means you and I owe $230,000 each for all that lovin' spoonful the oligarchs and rotten racketeers have foisted upon us.

Keep thinking, reading, and shit, sent this Substack to one thousand friends of yours, and I'll split the take if I get half of those friends to subscibe/to pay $35 or $50 a year for some kickin' ass shit I write.

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Ok, first a bone to pick, and then one to toss in your direction.

What’s this bull$hit about some $94,000 debt that I supposedly owe?

I didn’t even borrow that much to buy my first, new, house.

I know that I’d remember borrowing that kind of money.

What?

Elected representatives?

Sorry dudes, I didn’t vote for any of these silly motherf*ckers.

The winners, or the losers.

$hit, I could have just went with losers, and covered both the donkeys, and the pachyderms.

So any debt collectors wanting to service them loans, just go check the voter registration logs, and get the money from those succkas.

It’s their reps, not mine,

pi$$ing away all that dough.

Duck!!!

Bone comin’ your way!!!!

As a curious fellow, who actually enjoys learning, I have a pretty good idea what kind of effort is required to produce a coherent, and even a semi-exhaustive examination of a myriad of topics.

You sir, and several of your colleagues, put in one hell of a lot of work, just to keep me/us informed.

And, it seems like a pretty thankless undertaking on your part(s).

I’m guessing that paid subscribers are difficult to accumulate, unless you’re some kind of celebrity.

Well, it ain’t much, but,

Thank You for all of the time, and effort that you expend, and all of the slings, and arrows, that you absorb, in order to advance the knowledge of your fellows.

Some call it journalism.

But, I think that it goes way deeper than a profession.

Maybe a calling?

Thank you senor Haeder.

(Sorry, don’t know how to do the wavy thingy above the n)

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