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Welcome to my second newsletter and thanks to new subscribers! We're up to 19 subscribers and that's pretty happy-making.
This week I'm looking at ranting. Isn't ranting wonderful? Isn't listening to ranting a drag?
I once had a dear and wonderful and completely exasperating friend, Peter, who indulged in a number of what I referred to as “push button rants”. All you had to do was push the button of your choice and watch him go. Several of his all time favorites were How New York City Isn’t New York City Anymore and This Country Is Going Down The Tubes. Peter died several years ago and I wrote this piece to honor him and my other dead:
I Don’t Delete My Dead. What Pete’s Missing | by Remington Write | Live Your Life On Purpose | Medium
What Pete’s Missing
Some years after Peter died I realized that I, too, have some push button rants. Here are a couple but at least I do make the attempt to keep them entertaining.
Recently the company for which a close friend has worked for years pulled itself off the stock exchange and went back to being a private company. Button pushed: F&%k shareholders! Too many corporate decisions are made solely to keep shareholders happy and the happiness of wealthy (and even not-wealthy) investors has wrecked our world. My rants these days take advantage of Medium’s platform and here are a couple of my bitter, snarky pieces taking down the World As It is:
Optimistic Nihilist?. Or Pessimistic Optimist? | by Remington Write | The Partnered Pen | Medium
Or Pessimistic Optimist?
Not Going to Make it. And the polar bears are going to have a… | by Remington Write | Plan-B Vibe | Medium
And the polar bears are going to have a party
I'm also featuring one of AleXander's new pieces this week which ties rather neatly into my topic:
Aggressions Anonymous. Rage Follies, On Ice (September 2020) | by aleXander hirka | Medium
Rage Follies, On Ice (September 2020)
In short, there is no such thing as unlimited sustainable growth no matter how fervently the capitalists believe that.
And even with that ringing from my keyboard, here I am flogging away with my words trying to earn a buck. Failing that, perhaps someone would like to buy me a cuppa coffee:
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I'll have another edition ready to go in a week.
Remington Write