9/11/23 -Vital Involvement in Senescence
Senescence is the gradual deterioration of functional characteristics in living organisms.
I laugh too hard. I cry too little. The word senescence can refer to either cellular senescence or to senescence of the whole organism. Individuals are living organisms. Americans are too even if not as individualistic as they pretend to be. On 9/11 I woke listening to New York unfolding on KPFA—a Pacifica outlet from Berkeley aka flagship station-in my apartment on Folsom street in LA Mission. I left my house to go a near by cafe. I ran in to a friend and we talked. I told him what I thought and he did not. I said it was an Auto-Golpe. He was a staunch unbeliever in government as treason. A lot were. And many after Covid are too. I lost nothing by my assertion. Freedom of speech is natural. This is why I excel in selling everything but me. Not unlike telepathy now and then-eh you are close to another and you confide and you realize stunned they do not believe anyone drinks unsweetened ice coffee in winter in Gstaad.
The human comedy is the human tragedy as expressed so…
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