Free people with no political larynx

only this disability is not recognized as important by citizens

We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many.

We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness."

~Mary Oliver

To speak out of course requires one. Your political larynx helps you to:

• Breathe in freedom. When you take in air through your nose and mouth, your larynx funnels it down to your trachea and to your lungs.

• Freely talk, shout and make other vocal sounds. Your larynx contains your vocal cords, which create sound.

$7.6 trillion of federal debt coming due this year.

Combined with current deficits, that comes to nearly $10 trillion the federal government will be trying to borrow.

For perspective, all bank deposits in America come to slightly over $20 trillion.

And between selling by China, Japan, and Saudi — even the Fed's rolling off treasuries — they could be selling debt into an abyss.

Wonder if a big war helps.

Agamben  We are experiencing the end of an era in the political history of the West, the era of bourgeois democracy founded on constitutions, on rights, on parliaments, and on the division of powers. This model was already facing a crisis: constitutional principles were increasingly being ignored, and the executive power had almost entirely replaced the legislative by operating — as it now does exclusively — through legislative decrees [aka “executive orders”]. With the so-called pandemic, things went further: what American political analysts called the “Security State” — which was established in response to terrorism — has now given way to a health-based paradigm of governance that we term “biosecurity”. It is important to understand that biosecurity, both in its efficacy and in its pervasiveness, outdoes every form of governance that we have hitherto known. As we have seen in Italy — but not only here — as soon as a threat to health is declared, people unresistingly consent to limitations on their freedom that they would never have accepted in the past.