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10/10 World Mental Health Day [1]

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Date: 2022-10-10

Puritan Dunking

What is mental health in an insane society?

"It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"?

~ J. Krishnamurti

Conformity for the sake of conformity, and Normality for the sake of normality are never good things, but especially not in a mad world.

Assertion:

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

Evidence:

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Believe me, in today's world, nearly all of us do, it is almost inescapable, what with all the lies, propaganda, advertising, half-truths, and obfuscation.

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Really, we have, and need to have:

World Day Against the Death Penalty World Homeless Day and World Mental Health Day

and we've been at war almost my entire life and spend horrible vast fortunes on killing foreigners and/or preparing to and on suppressing dissent and non-conformity here at home.But, hey, that's really healthy shit, right? You know how great this normalcy is when you look at the historical cures for wrong-think, for believing that maybe this isn't so wonderful, hanging, burning, torture, electro-shock and insulin shock, lobotomies and life in the nuthouse, or just about anything other than free thought.

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On this day in history:

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0680 -- The Battle of Karbala was fought

0732 -- The Battle of Tours was fought

1582 -- Nothing at all happened in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain; the date does not exist there

1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, was discovered

1868 -- Carlos Cespedes proclaimed the Grito de Yara, starting the Cuban war of Independence from Spain (aka 10 Years War)

1897 -- Felix Hoffmann discovered an improved way to make aspirin

1903 -- Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union

1911 -- The Wuchang Uprising, which led to the founding of the Republic of China

1913 -- Construction of the Panama Canal ended with a bang when President Woodrow Wilson blew up the Gamboa Dike

1928 – Chiang Kai-shek became Chairman Dictator of the Republic of China.

1938 -- The Munich Agreement ceded the Sudetenland to Germany.

1957 – The Windscale fire resulted in Britain's worst nuclear accident.

1963 -- The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect, partially, one assumes

1967 – The Outer Space Treaty went into farce.

1973 -- Spiro T. Agnew resigned as US Vice President. No big loss.

1980 -- El Salvador's FMLN was founded

2002 – The United States Congress approved the Authorization for Use of Military Force against anybody we feel like

2010 -- The Netherlands Antilles were dissolved as a nation, eliminating some YUUUGE US Corporate tax avoidance schemes.

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Some people who were born on this day:

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

~~ Alberto Giacometti

1684 -- Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter

1731 -- Henry Cavendish, chemist, physicist, and philosopher

1813 -- Giuseppe Verdi, composer

1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian

1870 – Louise Mack, Australian journalist, author, and poet

1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter

1902 – K. Shivaram Karanth, Indian journalist, author, and activist

1914 -- Ivory Joe Hunter, singer, songwriter and pianist

1915 -- Harry Edison, A trumpet player and composer

1917 -- Thelonious Monk, pianist and composer

1923 -- Louis Gottlieb, singer, comic, musicologist and bass player

1924 – James Clavell, Australian-American director, producer, screenwriter, and author

1924 -- Ed Wood, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, had a plan from outer space

1926 -- Oscar Brown, singer, songwriter, playwright, activist and actor

1930 -- Harold Pinter, actor, director, screenwriter, activist and playwright

1941 -- Peter Coyote, actor, director, and screenwriter, member of the Diggers and the S.F. Mime Troupe

1941 -- Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni author and activist murdered by the Nigerian government as a favor to Royal Dutch Shell.

1946 -- John Prine, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1948 – Cyril Neville, American R&B percussionist and singer

1954 -- David Lee Roth, singer, songwriter and producer

1958 -- Tanya Tucker, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1979 – Kangta, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1979 -- Mya, singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress

1994 – Bae Suzy, South Korean singer, actress and model

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Some people who died on this day:

Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs as a result of the diminution of the liberty of women.”

~~ Charles Fourier

0019 -- Germanicus, Roman general

0680 -- Husayn ibn Ali, Islamic religious leader, Muhammad's grandson

1659 -- Abel Tasman, merchant and explorer

1800 -- Gabriel Prosser, caught planning a slave rebellion in the US and hanged for it.

1837 -- Charles Fourier, philosopher and academic

1872 -- William H. Seward, lawyer and politician, committed Seward's folly.

1963 -- Edith Piaf, singer, songwriter and actress

1964 -- Eddie Cantor, singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor

1973 -- Ludwig von Mises, economist and sociologist, a quack and a hack

1985 -- Yul Brynner, actor, no good rooskie

1985 -- Orson Welles, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

2010 -- Joan Sutherland, soprano and actress

2013 – Cal Smith, singer, guitarist and bumpkin

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

World Day Against the Death Penalty

World Mental Health Day

World Homeless Day





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Today's Tunes



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Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Giuseppi Verdi (Look, Ma, kultchure)

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Ivory Joe Hunter

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Harry Edison

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Thelonius Monk

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Louis Gottlieb

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Oscar Brown

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John Prine

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Cyril Neville

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David Lee Roth

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Tanya Tucker

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Mya

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Edith Piaf

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Joan Sutherland (More Verdi, a twofer)

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Kacey Musgraves and friend

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So, um yeah, mental health day,most definitely, fer sure, fer sure. HEH. A mental health meditation for us all:

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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?

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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com





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