MANIPULATION ......

----  We are experiencing nowadays in our modern times , the death of reason , compassion and tolerance . This death is being perpetrated and admitted calmly and unemotionally by the majority of humanity . Are we turning into the night of the world ?? A world where reason and tolerance are absent , where compassion and rationalism withdrew themselves and retired . As the sun sets below the horizon , the old adage "We are living in a godless world " is reversing itself  into " We live in a world of too many gods " And they surely don't like each other , on the contrary , we could safely assume that they hate each other .
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----  In my Sept. 26th  blog " Reality or fiction " I foretold a future road map for the Republican party , inspired by the surprise resignation of the house's speaker John Boehner .  This past week his likely de facto successor Kevin McCarthy , possibly the only centrist conservative member capable of reuniting the party's right , ultra right and moderates resigned in another surprise move as well , confirming a pattern initiated earlier with Eric Cantor , and now continuing with Paul Ryan .


A pattern , only deepening the divide , and hastening the moderate core caucus move facing the young and aggressive ultra conservative right ,and the Tea partier . I still see and predict a strong corrective act coming . In other parts of the world they might call it a coup , or a counter coup to regain leadership and put the party in a correct path for the future , what ever we call it , we know that all roads lead to Rome . If something of the sort doesn't start shaping up soon , the GOP and certain aspects of American life could brace themselves for chaos and dysfunction .
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---- From Hemingway's "Winner take nothing " (1933) , the finishing lines of one of his short stories,  a monologue of his hero , a waiter in a Spanish café ; " Turning  the electric lights , he continued the conversation with himself .... what did he fear ? It was not fear or dread . It was a nothing that he knew too well . It was all a nothing and man was nothing too . Some lived in it and never felt it , but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada .  Our nada , who are in nada , nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is nada . Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada".


The playful repetition and manipulation of "nada" the Spanish word for nothing , and the transforming and mixing nothingness with the two conventional Christian prayers  I find very exciting  in Hemingway's work and brightness . He finishes his same short story with " Hail nothing , full of nothing , nothing is thee ...."  A very exciting work , as I as well believe in nothingness before , during and in the after .


The world contains plants , animals , stones and sand , planets and stars , all these are things , their existence , acts , visions , pasts/futures , sufferings , foolishness and cruelties , are all nothings and fall into the void of nothingness .    My usual thanks for your times and help spreading the word .