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ReadItnWeep

(71 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 04:14 AM Jun 2025

Wanted to Share a Thoughtful Writer that's perhaps less widely known

I've been keeping up with the news, but trying to stay away from the discussions. There are only so many ways to say, "He is the most ignorant, selfish, and evil President and I still can't believe America did this to ourselves!"
So, I was reading through some stuff that I have let sit in my email inbox for awhile. And I remembered how much I really enjoy this man's writing! I may have even found him through a suggestion here.
It's overall theme, I suppose, is we must not stop trying to do what we must do. It must be done. And if, as many say, "it can't be done", "or it won't matter because they have all the power", well, we still must try to do it anyway. Because they are wrong in every way. And they are harming people. So we must keep doing what we can.

Here's a link to the article:https://www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovable-sink/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

Here's how it begins:


There's a movie that came out about 50 years ago, which makes it quite old but not quite as old as me. We would have gone to high school together, though, me and this movie, if movies went to high school. It was called One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and according to Wikipedia it's still called that. The movie is based on the play that is based on Merry Prankster founder Ken Kesey's countercultural novel of the same name, and it starred Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, and Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd and Scatman Crothers and Brad Dourif, too, and many others. It was very popular and I think it still is; it won all the Oscars that year and it still shows up on lists of great movies and all that

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Wanted to Share a Thoughtful Writer that's perhaps less widely known (Original Post) ReadItnWeep Jun 2025 OP
swoop in with your card games lapfog_1 Jun 2025 #1
Actually ReadItnWeep Jun 2025 #2

lapfog_1

(31,648 posts)
1. swoop in with your card games
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 04:38 AM
Jun 2025
&t=24s

famous movie that created a lot of memes
but I'm sure you know that

ReadItnWeep

(71 posts)
2. Actually
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 01:29 PM
Jun 2025

Somehow, I have never seen the entire movie. Just scenes. I probably would enjoy it and maybe even understand some of them memes!

I'll add it to my watch list.

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