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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Julian Bond

ByGary De Mattei August 20, 2015June 3, 2020

Julian Bond At the public schools I attended in Northern California we studied the Civil Rights movement at a very early age, which meant we studied Julian Bond at a very early age. Anti Vietnam War protests would occur on the campuses where I attended school. The Revolution wasn’t happening around us, it was happening…

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Fight The Power

ByGary De Mattei November 12, 2019November 12, 2019

November 11, 2019 I celebrate Veterans Day because my dad would want me to, and he’d want me to keep telling his story. Dad served in the infantry during World War II, in the Philippines. He was 17 when he went over there. He came back about three years later, his youth and innocence gone…

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To The Love Of My Life On Easter

ByGary De Mattei March 28, 2016March 28, 2016

It was one of those March days Dickens wrote about, “when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” There were lots of Easter Bonnets being blown about. Smiling Manhattanites in boaters and bowties mixing in with the sad-faced men and women…

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JOGGING THROUGH THE STREETS OF QUEENS UPDATE

ByGary De Mattei October 14, 2012July 12, 2015

Middle-aged heavyweight woman with five o’clock shadow pushing a loaded babushka cart and wearing some kind of schmatta on her head spit at me and then mumbled something in Russian as I jogged by her. Sources tell me it was either an ancient curse or a killer recipe for borscht. Not to be outdone, an…

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Whacky Wednesday

ByGary De Mattei December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

“There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.” ― Oscar Hammerstein II Yesterday was Giving Tuesday, when not-for-profits asked you to give $5, $10, $20 — whatever you could spare. Giving Tuesday happens before Whacky Wednesday, when the holiday shopping season…

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