As you once commented to Mona, rewatching Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)is always a salve. Listening to Louise Penny's mysteries is great, too. Dogs are the best people.
I had wrote in a few posts to The Bulwark comments section that we were a lot closer to Brave New World than 1984. In addition to the decadence-control you also have a tiered societal hierarchy based on intelligence, and this was controlled from birth. Only in our world, the tiered hierarchy from birth revolves around money and how much one inherits from their parents. We also still have societal divides based around intelligence—the “diploma divide” via politics—that is reflected in our party base structures (the MAGA base tends to lean more non-college and the anti-Trump coalition tends to lean college+). We also pump our society full of pharmaceuticals—and not just antidepressants, I’m talking about the ketamine and ozempic prescriptions that people like Elon Musk get access to easily.
Charlie! I am happy to see you on MSNBC now and then, but I have missed your trenchant writing. And now, after reading you in the Atlantic (which I might’ve missed but for JVL’s recommendation), I am so pleased to find this! Reading your occasional postings will be like coming across an unexpected Johnny-jump-up on a garden walk. Take care not to get your face too close to the firehouse again; keep up the ball games with those very good boys, and you can never go wrong with H2G2, read by the author, if you can find it. Have a good day!
Thanks Charlie. Appreciate the promise of an inconsistent delivery so that when something comes it’s a pleasant surprise gift, like today. Cheers!
Welcome back—if even sporadically. And please post more often on threads. I refuse to go back to twitter.
Eli and Augie are handsome boys
As you once commented to Mona, rewatching Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)is always a salve. Listening to Louise Penny's mysteries is great, too. Dogs are the best people.
Dogs ARE the best people!
I had wrote in a few posts to The Bulwark comments section that we were a lot closer to Brave New World than 1984. In addition to the decadence-control you also have a tiered societal hierarchy based on intelligence, and this was controlled from birth. Only in our world, the tiered hierarchy from birth revolves around money and how much one inherits from their parents. We also still have societal divides based around intelligence—the “diploma divide” via politics—that is reflected in our party base structures (the MAGA base tends to lean more non-college and the anti-Trump coalition tends to lean college+). We also pump our society full of pharmaceuticals—and not just antidepressants, I’m talking about the ketamine and ozempic prescriptions that people like Elon Musk get access to easily.
Subscribed! Is there “Charlie’s Virtual Book Club” potential here? It would be so cool…
Oooh, I'm interested!
I’ll mention the idea in Charlie’s replies from time to time and try to manifest that… 🤞
So good to hear you again. Thanks for doing this…when you feel like it, of course.
Thanks Charlie. Good to hear from you again.
Welcome back. You have been missed. ❤️
Enjoy your time with things that really matter, dogs and family.
You are making excellent use of your time. Looking forward to what you write and of course pictures.
I read your piece in The Atlantic and I wondered if I could email you from there to say HI and that I missed you.
Good to see you, and you can write about anything you like, I am just glad I have somewhere to go to read you.
Beautiful dogs. ❤️❤️
So glad to read your words again!! Thank you
Charlie! I am happy to see you on MSNBC now and then, but I have missed your trenchant writing. And now, after reading you in the Atlantic (which I might’ve missed but for JVL’s recommendation), I am so pleased to find this! Reading your occasional postings will be like coming across an unexpected Johnny-jump-up on a garden walk. Take care not to get your face too close to the firehouse again; keep up the ball games with those very good boys, and you can never go wrong with H2G2, read by the author, if you can find it. Have a good day!
So glad I checked my Substack. What a pleasant surprise!