Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse: "RALPHY BOY!"

BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse

I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.

As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........

Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......

Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......

How did I get here from there?

Monday, July 12, 2010

"RALPHY BOY!"

Self-Reliance

An essay written by American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotes.

However, "Self-Reliance" is not anti-society or anti-community. Instead, Emerson advocates self-reliance as a starting point, not as a goal.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

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Hypocorism :

hy·poc·o·rism [hahy-pok-uh-riz-uhm, hi-]

–noun
1. a pet name.
2. the practice of using a pet name.
3. the use of forms of speech imitative of baby talk, esp. by an adult.

If adults imitate baby talk and childrens look up to adults........

when does anybody grow up?

Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse