Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with power
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Tim Barrus, Blue Ridge Riding
Must be the summer of the Biker Full Moon Voodoo because the cops in the South are going hell bent hog looking for bikes. They will smash your camera, your Go Pro, your mirrors, and they wiil throw your bike into a swamp. I have seen this. My take: The…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
holy water/ Religion is hypocrisy. Why does someone else need to be concerned by what I believe. It’s like this fervent power has seized them, and they must go forth and make everyone believe what they believe. Why. Religion has always been dangerous. War after war after war. People have…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I contracted a fatal disease. Dementia sets in. I do get lost, and find it rather interesting as it is usually somewhere I have never been. I have a 16-year-old (going on 27) “helper” who does everything. His spelling is bad but he proofs my stuff which is always a…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Every time we turn around to face whatever wind that is coming at us, we hear voices of a predestined fate, laughing at us in a cataclysm of deprivation and corruption. We hear the voices behind that wind, pushing it, always telling us – we don’t matter, we are irrelevant,…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
The definition of evil has to do with indifference. When American democracy is indifferent to the American people, democracy itself risks being rendered as an amusing afterthought, one that cannot stand in the face of a dictaorship. Power is power, and people who have it will pull out the big…
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Trump is the American fetish
Trump is a fetish. An object worshipped for its supposed magical powers because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit. An American fetish. Power always becomes, too, a form of sexual desire in which gratification is firmly connected to an abnormal degree to a particular object. Trump. Yes,…