❤️ 🎶 Rambling On with Brother Lefty Smith, S.O.B.* 🎶: December 2023

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Time to Pull the Plug on Netflix???

Posted to Facebook, December 19, 2023

Unlike my identical twin brother Lance, it's been ages since I've sat on a bar stool here on Facebook. I had sworn off this particular addiction to try to gain some clarity about what was really going on.

I fell off the wagon today to pass along this petition from the folks at MoveOn.org. It seems that the robber barons at Netflix are doing it again!

The pandemic shift in our society has led to record profits in the corporate world as more of us got addicted to our devices. Yet the price gouging and tax evasion continue! Those who don't get that the primary cause of inflation emerges from the corporate board rooms, uh, probably don't get it. They are too busy watching Netflix.

Signing this petition is only the first step. Yet it's an important step. I'm wondering if it's time for an organized effort to MoveOn and drop our subscriptions? (I notice that I got the shakes when I wrote that. LOL)

For One and All,
Brother Lefty

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/netflix-stop-the-corporate-greed-stop-raising-prices-now

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My Humble Take on the Real Deal

I believe that the movement for peace, economic democracy and social justice is a Spiritual Quest. No mean feat, what is called for is a True Revolution of the Heart and Mind--and it starts with each of us.

This revolution has to be Peaceful. The Hippies (and Jesus and Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. King, et al) had it right. It really is all about Peace and Love. Besides being a total drag, violence just doesn't work. It keeps our wheels spinning in fear, anger and pain. Who needs that?

Besides some hard work, I think the Revolution also calls for dancing, plenty of laughter, and some sitting around just doing nothing. (Some folks call it meditation.)

As Stephen Gaskin, proclaimed years ago:

"We're out to raise Hell--in the Bodhisattvic* sense."

Doesn't that sound like some serious fun?

(*The Bodhisattva Vow is a set of commitments made in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. It basically says I vow to get my act together and figure it out well enough to really help out--and I ain't gonna stop until everybody is covered.

I've found that doesn't necessarily have to happen in that order. It's best to try to help out even before you have it all together! Like right now.)

-----Brother Lefty Smith, Founding S.O.B*

"I think the hippies had it right. It IS all about Peace and Love. I came to realize, though, this is easier said than done. Living a life of kindness, clarity, and compassion takes effort, discipline and patience.

I also came to realize that, contrary to what we had been led to believe in a capitalist society, "rugged individualism" is a dangerous distortion of reality. It denies that fact that we are, each of us, connected to everyone and everything else. So, Peace and Love are relational, a collective experience. None of us can really get it together independently.

So, as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr King showed the world, finding others to work with, rolling up your sleeves, and engaging in non-violent political action is a freakin' no-brainer.

What else is there to do? "
--Brother Lefty