Nemo's Notes: "These Magic Kids", "Our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to" & "It's their Vietnam Moment"

Today has been a day of awakening for me, and I suppose it has been for many of my age-contemporaries, too. As a fifty-one year old man, I don’t cry much, but, wow, have I been a weepy mess all day today watching these magic kids. And that’s the term that keeps coming back to me: These kids are magic.
That and the rest of the article pretty well sums it up for me. I'm proud of these kids.

Todd Hogg reminds me more than a little of Mario Savio, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and other rebels of my generation.

Todd Hogg's quote is one of the best things I've heard in a long time:

"When your old-ass parent is like, ‘I don’t know how to send an iMessage,’ and you’re just like, ‘Give me the fucking phone and let me handle it.’ Sadly, that’s what we have to do with our government; our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to."

My wife says it's sad that this is how it has to work. I'm not sure I agree. Birth is a painful process.

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

It takes blood to make people stop their Fucking Bullshit.

"You and me we keep walkin' around & we see all the bullshit around us
You try and keep your mind on what's going down
But you can't help but see the rhinoceros around us
and you wonder what you can do
and you do what you can
To get bald and high

You say it's healing but nobody's feeling it
Somebody's dealing - somebody's stealing it
You say you don't see and you don't
You say you won't know and you won't

Someone stood at the window and cried one tear. I thought that would stop the war, but someone is killing me"

House at Pooneil Corners
Jefferson Airplane, 1969

Lewis Black nailed it: 50 years ago we were sending our youth overseas to be killed and maimed for corporations, money and greed. Now we bring it home and and do it in our schools.

Noam Chomsky on Martin Luther King Jr

"People are always waiting for a Savior But no Savior is gonna come.. That's not how it works....You're not going to get a leader who will save you, unless you do the work"

Start at 1:56

I was under 10 years old when all this was happening in the 60's - I grew up influenced by it but could only read about it later.

To be here now and see it happening is amazing.

I watched the March video and Emma’s 6 minutes of silence. Immensely powerful. The fact the network let it all play was even more amazing.

It always starts with the youth. Enough is enough.