11:59 pm Dec 31, 2020/ 12:00 am Jan 1, 2021
Emmenez-moi a bout de la terre.… Take me away to the end of the Earth
Embedded above – a video edited by yours truly with a song by Charles Aznavour which for some weird reason became like my earworm this entire month – to the point I patched together the above.
It’s the last day of this historically eventful year, so filled with significant and often tumultuous events, that one would’ve had to write an entry every single day to keep up with its happenings…and a date change on the Gregorian calendar won’t suddenly magically make facts or problems disappear.
As well, a reminder that if humans were kinder to animals zoonotic diseases would never have occurred in the first place…. as I’d outlined in depth in my last post in 2019, before Covid-19 took over the world, plundered entire economies, industries, livelihoods, lifestyles and caused close to 85 million cases and two million deaths worldwide in just one year.
Snark alert: You know…..if the world had listened to animal rights activists for eons, and not been so barbarically cruel to animals, zoonotic diseases through poor cramped, tortured “beasts” wouldn’t have occurred in the first place? Over and over again? But, by all means, please go ahead and mock the truth-tellers & the animal-lovers like myself, as you worry about your own and your children’s futures.
I hope that those who have the empathy-connection working in their brains and are not hypocrites, realize that perhaps a good start would be to choose Kindness over Cruelty, Empathy over Apathy and Evolving over Devolving.
#BeKindtoEveryKind #goodbye2020hello2021
Here’s to futile Hope…For…..Kindness….and….Wisdom
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The Gipsy Geek 
What a singer! Thoughtful film too đź‘Ť.
I find strong echoes of our lack of care for animals in the nationalist’s cry – “look after our own!”.
For humanity to succeed all life on earth must succeed. For one nation’s people to succeed all people must succeed.
But that cry is so catchy. It makes immediate sense and only collapses under intelligent analysis. Which from most voters it never gets.
For 2021 we need to find a narrative that appeals to the hearts of voters as powerfully. We need a way to refute “look after our own” with something like “we win when we all win”.
Can’t be that hard for our massed intellects and massed kindness, can it?
Happy New Year 🙂
JB