A Game of Thrones is back (like we need anymore Anglo/Celtic centered stories on TV)! But I still watch it. The diabolical family dysfunction is mesmerizing. How they got such a great cast is a secret worth selling. I bet that somewhere sometime, GOT will become part of some insane history book along with magical science. Better than creationism I suppose.
It was very hard to start reading again after Awakenings. Nothing has been as good; almost like trying to recreate having a good cup of coffee after travelling to the Spanish Caribbean or France. I was so satisfied. This being the case, I decided to scrap one of my rules. So, instead of having to read what automatically follows, I'm choosing the next book I read from my bookcase. That's how I landed with Howard Zinn's book.
One of the things, I loved most about Awakenings was that it tapped into my love of history, the lived history of the population so often over written by political and commercial agendas. There's nothing like reading Zinn on a long NYC subway through the boroughs: It's seeing the after effects of US history uncensored.
I've only read up to the Revolutionary War and boy do I want to sit in on my kids' history classes in the future. How can a true recollection of events be given an honest overview in order to prepare our youth to critically take part in improving their society? Is the average citizen capable of reconsidering historical happenings truthfully. It seems that everyone is either emotionally exhausted, vacant, or too over indulgent (and overworked, underpaid, and in debt) to be open to insight or even care.
If anyone has any questions about why recent initiatives have been taken to introduce more limits on citizen rights and perhaps offering the dialogue of disarming everyone including police and security guards along with the whole nation and army, I would suggest reading the first four chapters of A People's History of the US. Complete disarmament is never going to happen. So I guess I'm just writing these words because it's as close as I'm going to get to it ever happening.
Will read more and get back.
