ANTAGONISM

ByGary De Mattei January 17, 2013July 12, 2015

garyAsRocky — From Flab To Muscles by Gary De Mattei

The United States of America is a country founded on the principal of antagonism. Muscles are antagonistic. Muscles get stronger working against themselves. Without the checks and balances of its people, who will disagree, we will no longer exist as a nation by the people and for the people. We must disagree on everything and if we disagree equally we will always be strong and independent while also being one; like muscles. Embrace your antagonists, they are your brothers and your sisters; they are your people; they will keep you strong. We all agree on the really important things like, you don’t take the second amendment to a gun fight, you take a gun. With or without the piece of paper there will always be the gun. There are many guns in the world because we make them and we buy them. What’s being debated now is their usefulness. Let the debate rage. And while we’re at it, let it rage against the media machine who advertise guns and killing and call it information. Give the problem to the people and they will always make the right decision when they are working against each other as one. Like muscles. Give the problem to the media and it will never go away. Too much money to be made. To many advertisers to be paid. The media will always tell us about a new problem while selling us a new product. Like the latest designer jean. Or the latest designer drug. Or the latest gun. Or lots of pictures of the latest casualty from the latest drug, or gun, lying dead wearing the latest designer jeans.

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Mind Craft

ByGary De Mattei November 6, 2015November 21, 2015

Caryn is on personal business in Chicago, she is flying home today. One of her teachers from long ago passed away. They had remained friends over the years. She’s feeling the loss of her friend very deeply. As a matter of fact, when Caryn was going through chemotherapy at The Block Center in Evanston, Tom…

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YETI BLUES – January 27, 2023

ByGary De Mattei January 27, 2024January 27, 2024

The other day I watched commercial television for the first time in quite awhile. I had no choice, really, there were flat-screen monitors throughout the busy waiting room tuned in to a healthcare channel. Haven’t been there in years. Mandatory physical before changing doctors. This is good for business, I thought. Not to mention the…

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January 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM

ByGary De Mattei January 5, 2013January 5, 2020

Got back to NYC safely. Always difficult to leave San Jose. It’s where I’m from. It’s where my people live. It’s where I learned, loved, lost, laughed and cried…a lot. Took a redeye with a crying baby at my back. It cried and cried and cried so I didn’t have to. The only thing that…

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Love in the Time of Caller ID

ByGary De Mattei November 6, 2019

Big Internet tells me love is dying everywhere, so it must be so, no? And lately social media seems to be a clearing house for hate, violence, unkindness, betrayal, murder, so it must be so, no? Your god knows we all have challenges, obstacles, villains to deal with that lead us to conclude that love…

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Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered

ByGary De Mattei April 29, 2016November 6, 2019

Arthur Miller uses the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 as a metaphor for McCarthyism in his play, The Crucible, now in limited run here in New York featuring a cast of British, Irish and American actors in a reimagined version by Belgian director, Ivo van Hove. I saw the play Wednesday night. Today, some feel…

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THERE’S A DOG ON MY BED

ByGary De Mattei January 22, 2013July 12, 2015

The moment he knew he wasn’t dreaming was also the moment he grew more fearful about the dog. “There is a dog walking on my bed,” he thought while lying there in the dark. “We don’t have a dog. They don’t allow animals here. Only people. How’d this big dog get in our bedroom? Did…

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