Hi Philip! My grandfather, Carl Henry Schofield, immigrated to the US from Liverpool and worked as a railroad engineer. He died in the 1919 "Spanish" flu epidemic and I never knew him, unfortunately. He appears to be a lovely, humble chap in photos, one with him and his fireman in front of their engine has been blown-up and is on wall I look at every day.
Tramp (misspelling intentional), on the other hand was deeply traumatized and utterly lacks humility, is deeply mentally ill, and is a danger to us all, you and I as well. America is a deeply class society, which is a bit ironic for a nation of immigrants expelled from our homelands only quite recently. Trump and his Muskrat have German Nazi heritage, which explains some of their horrendous behavior. Money can solve many problems, but not childhood trauma or the characterological damage that can result.
Thanks for reply and for following my rather limited output on substack. I had not properly realised your long covid. We only saw one case in the immediate family, our son's wife, who is mostly but not entirely recovered. She was on the point of resigning her career / job early on.
Sadly young people also get long covid, I was made aware of the dangers and our limited understanding, by mol. biol. researchers who attached themselves to an independent organisation of experts, ISAGE, that I followed online. Eric Topol in the USA continues to be a valuable source of information, though there are few answers.
Compared with Spanish Flu it has been mostly the elderly who had the greatest mortality. 'The active breadwinners' getting hit by something new on a global scale is a very scary possibility. 'Our' world moves humanity and our farmed creatures around at such speed and in such numbers that biosecurity is impossible.
A little older than you at 84, I am pondering the personal stuff. Intergenerational trauma of many kinds is a key subject when high achievers in our modern high-powered society can high-jack the commanding structures, underpinned by state-authorised violence.
Trump is a bit different, the entertainer / actor, that side of him we did not see in Britain of course. The shape-shifter / chameleon personality identifying with the back of the hall, becomes the 'big guy', looks for total command, shoulders aside those who would rival him. Is probably sincere about not liking war... we will see.
JM Greer back when he was an American Archdruid (has his own interesting backstory) and Peak Oil prognosticator, made a shrewd remark regarding American class structure in the age of energy-overshoot; I paraphrase: 'You didn't mind too much when they threw the working class under the bus, but bear that in mind when they make you the PMC redundant.'
V. best wishes to you, the cousins and the American decencies.
Hi Philip! My grandfather, Carl Henry Schofield, immigrated to the US from Liverpool and worked as a railroad engineer. He died in the 1919 "Spanish" flu epidemic and I never knew him, unfortunately. He appears to be a lovely, humble chap in photos, one with him and his fireman in front of their engine has been blown-up and is on wall I look at every day.
Tramp (misspelling intentional), on the other hand was deeply traumatized and utterly lacks humility, is deeply mentally ill, and is a danger to us all, you and I as well. America is a deeply class society, which is a bit ironic for a nation of immigrants expelled from our homelands only quite recently. Trump and his Muskrat have German Nazi heritage, which explains some of their horrendous behavior. Money can solve many problems, but not childhood trauma or the characterological damage that can result.
Thanks for the dialog and have a blessed day!
Hi Greeley
I wrote only a day ago: '[Trump] ...is probably sincere about not liking war... we will see.'
I guess we have seen enough now... plenty of dead and damaged innocents are piled up again.
Thanks for reply and for following my rather limited output on substack. I had not properly realised your long covid. We only saw one case in the immediate family, our son's wife, who is mostly but not entirely recovered. She was on the point of resigning her career / job early on.
Sadly young people also get long covid, I was made aware of the dangers and our limited understanding, by mol. biol. researchers who attached themselves to an independent organisation of experts, ISAGE, that I followed online. Eric Topol in the USA continues to be a valuable source of information, though there are few answers.
Compared with Spanish Flu it has been mostly the elderly who had the greatest mortality. 'The active breadwinners' getting hit by something new on a global scale is a very scary possibility. 'Our' world moves humanity and our farmed creatures around at such speed and in such numbers that biosecurity is impossible.
Best wishes for health and your substack.
A little older than you at 84, I am pondering the personal stuff. Intergenerational trauma of many kinds is a key subject when high achievers in our modern high-powered society can high-jack the commanding structures, underpinned by state-authorised violence.
Trump is a bit different, the entertainer / actor, that side of him we did not see in Britain of course. The shape-shifter / chameleon personality identifying with the back of the hall, becomes the 'big guy', looks for total command, shoulders aside those who would rival him. Is probably sincere about not liking war... we will see.
JM Greer back when he was an American Archdruid (has his own interesting backstory) and Peak Oil prognosticator, made a shrewd remark regarding American class structure in the age of energy-overshoot; I paraphrase: 'You didn't mind too much when they threw the working class under the bus, but bear that in mind when they make you the PMC redundant.'
V. best wishes to you, the cousins and the American decencies.