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Kloktober Day 18: Use an overlooked character

Sorry for no art today :(, I don't feel like drawing stuff cause my brain is bleh

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To me, I believe that Senator Stampingston is painfully overlooked character in Metalocalypse.

He's in almost every episode, his part in the Tribunal is just as important (maybe if not more) as Vaters or Croziers, and he's like the main opening for each intro of the Tribunal.

I wish that he was talked about a bit more because he's a pretty funny character and his VA is pretty neat-o.

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Huge thank you to Jopson's german VA for getting the "me, sir?" right. I love you.

Also, I don't even know why, but Jopson saying "Na ja" before starting the report to Crozier does things to me.

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Trump & the Military

(This was shamelessly copy/pasted from OP on Reddit (u/myusernameiscool1234, thanks dude!) because it needs to be spread and I wanted to update a tad, add links and reformat it so it's easier to follow. I'm sure I'm missing stuff, so feel free to add to it and I'll try to update accordingly. Please Share!)

On Military Service

• Trump dodged the draft 5 times, 4 for college and 1 by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.

• Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998)

• Trump said “I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people” because he went to a military-style academy and that he has “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military”. (2015 biography)

• Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)

• ⁠No Trump in America has ever served in the military; this spans 5 generations, and every branch of the family tree. In fact, the reason his grandfather immigrated to America was to avoid military service

• Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported on June 4th, 2019)

Use & Treatment of Military

• He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn’t have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)

• He forgot the aforementioned fallen soldier’s name during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)

• He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)

• He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018).

• He stopped using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, the troops remained in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018).

• He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he’s most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)

• He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays (Dec 19, 2018-present)

• He finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)

• Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise. He didn’t give them a 10% raise (Dec 26, 2018). He initially tried to give the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. This was before Congress told him that idea wasn’t going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama’s. It wasn’t.

• He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment , including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq. Endangering both the operatives and their families. (Dec 26, 2018)

• He refused to sign his party’s funding bill, which shut down the government, and forced a branch of the military (see below) to go without pay. This branch of military was forced to work without pay, otherwise they would be AWOL. However, his appointees got a $ 10,000 pay raise (Dec 22, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019)

• He didn’t pay the Coast Guard, forcing service members to rely on food pantries (Jan 23, 2019)

• He denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)

• He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (Jan 22, 2019)

• He diverted military housing funds to pay for border wall (Feb 15, 2019). A judge subsequently denied this. In July 2019, SCOTUS ruled that Trump could in fact divert military housing funds to pay for his wall.

• Trump pardoned war criminals (May, 2019)

• In May 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain. Trump initially ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019) which led to the ship’s name subsequently being covered. (May 27, 2019)

• In June 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence for a better “aesthetic appearance” (June 7, 2019)

• Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)

• Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign (July 4, 2019)

• On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuting war criminals.

• On ⁠October 8th, 2019, Trump plans to withdraw from Open Skies treaty giving Russia the ability to target our military aircraft.

Attacks on Service Members

• Trump said he doesn’t consider POWs heroes because they were caught. Says he "prefers people who were not caught" (July 18, 2015)

• He said he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016)

• Trump attacks Gold Star families including: Myeshia Johnson — a gold star widow and the Khan family—gold star parents (2016-present)

• He called a retired general a ‘dog’ with a ‘big, dumb mouth’ (Jan 1, 2019)

• Well documented dislike of Sen. John McCain, going back to his statement on POWs (see above) and leading up to McCain’s passing. On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that deceased war hero, Sen. John McCain, didn’t thank him for his funeral.

• Trump started his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019)

• Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack Robert Muller, former FBI special counsel and a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)

• Children of deployed US troops will no longer get automatic American citizenship if born overseas during deployment. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019)

• After he pleading with superiors in a letter asking to offload most of the sailors on the ship in order to allow for social distancing and sanitizing the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Trump attacks Capt. Crozier calling his letter “terrible” and "not appropriate” leading the Secretary of the Navy to remove Capt. Crozier from his post. 114 of 4,000 sailors on the ship had already tested po sitive for COVID-19. (April 3, 2020)

• On June 24, 2020, the White House ends the National Guard's deployments to assist the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic, the day before thousands of National Guard members would qualify for early retirement and education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI bill.

Immigrants in the military

• He deported veterans (2017-present)

• He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)

• Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)

• Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018).

• Trump deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless. The US has since overturned this as of April 16, 2019.

• In July 2019, Trump denied a United States Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his scheduled citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)

Treatment of Veterans

• For a decade, Trump sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. Being quoted as saying, “While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?” in 1991.

• Trump sent funds raised from a January 2016 veterans’ benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veteran’s charities (Jan, 2016). The foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud and Trump to pay $2 million in damages as of November 2019.

• The controversy surrounding wether or not he said vets get PTSD because they "aren’t strong" (Oct 3, 2016)

• He blocked a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017)

• Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act.

• Trump changing the GI Bill caused the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances and forced many veterans to run out of food and rent. “You can count on us to serve, but we can’t count on the VA to make a deadline,” one veteran said. (reported October 7, 2018)

• While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn’t attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain – but other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)

• He got three Mar-a-Lago guests to run the VA (unknown start – present, made well-known in 2018)

• He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)

• He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018)

• He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)

• He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019). He deported countless other veterans (2017-present)

• When a man was caught swindling veterans’ pensions for high-interest “cash advances,” Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1. As a reminder, the Trump administration’s goal was to dismantle the CFPB, installing Mick Mulvaney as the director, who publicly stated the bureau should be disbanded. (Jan 26, 2019)

• Trump purged 200,000 veterans’ healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment process and enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019)

• On August 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards the border wall.

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Highly recommended.

"Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) is calling for [t]rump’s Defense Secretary Mark Esper to fire Modly 'immediately.' Blasted out via Twitter, her demand is given extra weight by the fact that she herself is a 20 year veteran of the Navy."

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Bob Dylan Mail Art Exhibition 1983 - aleXander hirka

The Bob Dylan Mail-Art Exhibition

New York City, 24 May 1983

Almost 100 individuals from around the world participated in this Mail Art Exhibition on the theme of Bob Dylan.

The works were all displayed in the window of Carlo Pittore’s La Galleria dell’Occhio – 267 E. 10th Street, New York City, and a printed catalog was mailed to all participants, as well as other artists and institutions internationally.

Below is a list of all participants, as well as links to photos of the exhibition, scanned pages from the printed catalog, and audio selections from the cassette catalog.

The day of the opening of this exhibition, 24 May, Bob Dylan’s birth date, was also the Brooklyn Bridge Centennial. Those fireworks were “borrowed” to celebrate the opening of this event.

 Audio contributions were also encouraged – and a cassette catalog was produced.

For a limited time only you can click on the titles below to hear the actual recordings!

(©Jack Friedman – guitar, vocals, et cetera.  This brilliant piece was picked up by Nashville country/comedy act Pinkard & Bowden and released on their album “PG 13”. Their version was nowhere near as good.)

As I review this project 31 years later, I also feel great sadness that many of these individuals with whom I shared art and life via the postal system and the Mail Art Network have departed from their visit to the planet. My sister is among those here. Perhaps even more are gone, whose exit I have not heard about yet.

I am deeply grateful for everyone who contributed to this crazy little project – as I likewise contributed to hundreds of Mail Art shows around the world in those years. (I have about two bookshelves full of catalogs from shows like this in which I participated.)

ITALY Vittore Baroni Guglielmo Achille Cavellini Angelo Vitale Serse Luigetti Ubaldo Giacomucci Biagio D’Egidio Ruggero Maggi Daniele Ciullini Vittorio Baccelli

POLAND Waclaw Ropiecki Andrzej Dudek-Durer

ENGLAND Michael Scott Michael Leigh Robin Crozier

SAUDI ARABIA Wally Darnell

YUGLOSLAVIA Sandor Gogoljak Nenad Bogdanovic Helga Nikolic

HUNGARY Thomas F. Farkas Balazs Peter Kovacs

WEST GERMANY Henning Mittendorf Bernd Olbrich Aloys Ohlman

NETHERLANDS Henk Fahkeldig

BELGIUM Guy Bleus Thierry Tillier

GREECE Dimosthenis Agrafiotis

USofA Carlo Pittore – NYC Robin Willoughby – Buffalo, NY Bart Plantenga – Ocean Grove, NJ Buster Cleveland – Talmage, CA St. Scarlatina – NYC Barbara Ferguson -Woodmere,NY Crack Jack Kid – Omaha, NE Artfoot ’83 – Berkeley, CA Joel Lipman – Toledo, OH K. S. Ernst – Farmingdale, NJ Michael Row – Santa Barbara, CA Ed Atkeson – Albany, NY R. J. Sky – Milwaukee- WI Bill Whorall – Shoals, IN Post Industrialism – Gulfport, FL Rigor Mortis – Oakland, CA Dana Friis-Hansen – Northfield MN Ken Lerner – Northampton, MA Tuli Kupferberg – NYC Michael T. Robinson – Philadelphia, PA Minoy – Redondo Beach, CA Kris Tigerlady – Chicagio, IL Brendan De Vallance – Chicago, IL Peter Craigie – Philadelphia, PA John P. Jacob – NYC James A. Johnson – Boulder, CO Lon Spiegelman – Los Angeles, CA A. Vanderburgh – Santa Barbara,CA D.O.G. – Corpus Christi, TX Edgar Allen Bushmiller – Norfolk, VA A. Knoblauch – Bozrah, CT

John Evans, NYC Bill Gaglione – San Francisco,CA Leavenworth Jackson – San Francisco, CA Lynn Charles Foster – Salem, OR Anonymous – Texas Philip A. Gore – Wooster, OR Jack O. Heart – Acton, MA Al Ackerman – San Antonio, TX dislocate Klammer – NYC Arturo Falico – Saratoga, CA Russell Bianca – Brooklyn, NY aka Creative Thing – Whittier, CA Gene Elder – San Antonio, TX Buz Blurr – Gurdon, AK Anonymous – NYC Mark Melnicove – So.Harpswell, ME Richard C. – Winston-Salem, NC Jim Bohn – NYC Jan Wilson Kaufman – Oakland, CA Chris Laux – NYC Irma Perez – San Diego, CA Rockola – San Francisco, CA Stephen Rowan – Berkeley, CA Skooter – Hollywood, CA Alice Terry – Key West, FL Maggetson – Norfolk, VA Peter Becker – San Francisco, CA John Bennett – Columbus, OH Dan Chusid – Ocean Beach, CA Curtis R. Uebelhor – Edwardsville,IL Bruce Prussack – New Hyde Park, NY

Thanks to these publications for helping spread the invitation:

Umbrella, RubberStampMadness, Rhubarb, Bambu, Stampola, and Pardon My Mirth Marks.

“Almost 100 individuals from around the world participated in this Mail Art Exhibition on the theme of Bob Dylan.

The works were all displayed in the window of Carlo Pittore’s La Galleria dell’Occhio – 267 E. 10th Street, New York City, and a printed catalog was mailed to all participants, as well as other artists and institutions internationally. * Below is a list of all participants, as well as links to photos of the exhibition, scanned pages from the printed catalog, and audio selections from the cassette catalog. * The day of the opening of this exhibition, 24 May, Bob Dylan’s birth date, was also the Brooklyn Bridge Centennial. Those fireworks were “borrowed” to celebrate the opening of this event.”

From The International Bob Dylan Mail Art Exhibition – 1983. Posted by AleXander Hirka on 5/22/2014 (48 items)

Catalog front cover.

Catalog back cover.

Standing in front of exhibition in window of La Galleria dell’Occhio, east 10th Stree…

Exhibition in four images.

St. Scarlatina and AleX TorridZone Igloo at the exhibition.

Participants list in The International Bob Dylan Mail Art Exhibition.

Drawing by Carlo Pittore.

Inside front cover of catalog.

Renaissance Post artist stamp series – "Masters of War" 18 Year Commemorati…

Audio Catalog from The International Bob Dylan Mail Art Exhibition. Audio selections…

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“L’uomo non vale più di un gatto. La poesia insegna che l’inestimabile è in tutto”: dialogo con Lorna Crozier, poetessa totale

Dotata di energia tripla, quando le chiedo di inviarmi delle poesie, Lorna, con docile audacia, mi invia una silloge sulla “Vita sessuale dei vegetali” – vi siete mai chiesti come copulano le cipolle o come se la godono patate e cocomeri? – una poesia – insieme ironica e malinconica – su come fanno sesso gli anziani e un’altra, di icastica bellezza, quasi conradiana, sulla Paura dei serpenti. Lorna Crozier, nata a Swift Current, dove lo sguardo corre pietoso lungo scurrili praterie, “cresciuta tra le pianure dove gli eroi locali erano giocatori di hockey e bigodini, dove ‘non ho mai pensato di poter diventare scrittrice’” (così nel sito biografico, qui), è uno dei poeti canadesi contemporanei, insieme a Jan Zwicky (che abbiamo intervistato qui), più importanti di oggi. Prima raccolta edita nel 1976 (Inside the Sky), una serie di libri, tra gli anni Ottanta e Novanta (The Garden Going Out Without Us; Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence; Inventing the Hawk) che le garantiscono il massimo riconoscimento in Canada per la letteratura (il Governor General’s Award), Lorna, capelli ribelli, occhiali romanzeschi e sorriso perpetuo, coltiva una poesia devota al genio della variazione. Con spigliata naturalezza Lorna vi intrattiene sulle perplessità sessuali di Iside (“Quando le fu chiesto di riassemblare Osiride, Iside fu tentata di abbandonare il suo pene o di rimodellarlo?”), ha il coraggio di domande vipere, vispe e vespertine (“Non sarebbe diverso il nostro mondo se il dio del Vecchio Testamento avesse avuto una moglie e una figlia?”) è consapevole che i premi letterari sono nulla (“I premi portano in dono al lettore la pigrizia, e fanno più danni che benefici allo scrittore”), che la poesia non si può insegnare, è un dono.

Lorna Crozier secondo Kevin Konnyu

Eppure, ha dettato i suoi versi davanti alle Regina Elisabetta, dal 2011 è Officer of the Order of Canada, e va in giro per il mondo come una specie di ambasciatrice della poesia canadese. I critici avvicinano la sua lirica all’opera di Alice Munro (canadese, Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 2013), mentre sul New York Times Book Review Ursula LeGuin, la grande colona della fantascienza, la creatrice del mondo di ‘Earthsea’, leggendola ha esultato, “che gioia leggere un libro di questa meravigliosa, visionaria poetessa canadese!”. Eppure, Lorna (qui trovate informazioni sul suo conto), donna dagli sguardi pregni di compassione, lettrice impareggiabile – da Pasolini a Shakespeare, da Anna Achmatova a Basho – una per cui “le parole possono fare l’amore”, rimane argentata nell’umiltà, riconosce che in fondo “l’uomo non è più importante di un gatto o di un cavallo” e che “l’inestimabile è in ogni cosa”. La poesia – che per Lorna è la vita, “il mio ultimo respiro coinciderà con i miei ultimi versi” – come ricerca dell’inestimabile. Che bello.

Quando è scaturito in lei l’istinto poetico? Quali sono i temi della sua poesia? In sintesi, da Inside in the Sky (1976) a What the Soul Doesn’t Want (2017) come è cambiata la sua ispirazione?

“Per quarant’anni ho scritto e pubblicato poesie. L’istinto al fare è incarnato nel mio sangue e nelle mie ossa. È una parte di me: come respirare, mangiare, dormire e amare chi mi è accanto. Non posso separarlo da ciò che sono. Capisco la pratica dei maestri dell’haiku, che compilano poemi sulla morte. Spero che il mio ultimo respiro coincida con il mio ultimo verso, e che qualcuno di caro sia con me a scriverlo. Spero che questo qualcuno sia anche un buon editor, e che se il poema finale è cattivo, lo getti via! Nella mia poesia, sono sempre stata consapevole che scrivere è un atto che sfonda il silenzio, spesso più eloquente di molti giochi di parole. Molti dei personaggi che adotto non hanno la possibilità di parlare, non sono inclusi nelle pagine dei libri. Tra questi, ci sono i miei genitori. Erano contadini, lavoratori con pochi libri in casa, di certo non erano intellettuali. Nella letteratura del mio paese non ci sono personaggi come loro. Ho trattato i miti, inoltre, ma cambiando il punto di vista, parlando dalla parte di chi non ha avuto voce, le donne, soprattutto. Cosa pensò Sarah, mi domandavo, quando suo marito Abramo, rispondendo al comando del loro dio, andò per uccidere suo figlio? Quando le fu chiesto di riassemblare Osiride, Iside fu tentata di abbandonare il suo pene o di rimodellarlo? Non sarebbe diverso il nostro mondo se il dio del Vecchio Testamento avesse avuto una moglie e una figlia? Mi piace, in poesia, l’impulso del ‘come se’, perché richiede lo scintillio della nostra immaginazione. Sono sempre stata affascinata dagli effetti del paesaggio sui personaggi. Sono nata in un angolo deserto di un mondo senza grandi alberi. Ora vivo in una foresta. Sarei una persona diversa se fossi nata a Vancouver Island piuttosto che a Saskatchewan”.

Che valore ha la poesia, ha un valore ‘etico’ o ‘politico’? Insomma, può il poeta cambiare la storia dell’uomo?

“Per me, leggere e scrivere poesia è un metodo per sopravvivere. Mi fa sentire meno sola. Afferma il mio amore per il mondo nel troppo breve tempo che mi è dato su questa terra. Questo è il massimo risultato per ogni forma d’arte. La poesia, credo, agisce sulle nostre stesse cellule perché è musica. Accelera i battiti del cuore, l’intelletto, la nostra visione luminosa. Può per questo cambiare la storia o gli uomini? Certo, ma forse la incrementa. Ci rende essere umani migliori, in miglior sintonia con le altre forme di vita, meno rigidi, più empatici. Ci rende più prossimi agli animali, un tutt’uno con l’oceano e il vento? Lo spero. Ci fa apprezzare ciò che non può essere venduto e comprato? Lo spero”.

Lei ha ottenuto diversi riconoscimenti, dal governo canadese, dai lettori. Che valore hanno i premi, per un poeta?

“I premi sono magnifici per gli editori e per i librai, non per gli scrittori. C’è un solo vincitore tra centinaia e centinaia di libri e il resto rischia di essere dimenticato. Ho apprezzato i premi in cui la giuria era composta dai miei colleghi e la loro approvazione era autentica. Ma i premi portano più danni che benefici, credo, soprattutto quando i lettori basano le loro scelte di lettura su chi ha vinto qualcosa, ignorando gli altri. I premi portano la pigrizia in dono al lettore. E non è una cosa buona”.

Chi sono i suoi ‘maestri’, autori ‘classici’ o contemporanei? Che cosa le piace leggere, quali poeti ama? Conosce la poesia italiana?

“A scuola, mi innamorai dei poeti romantici, di Shakespeare, di Robert Browning, di Tennyson. Furono i miei primi maestri. Poi c’è stato Thomas S. Eliot, seguito dai grandi canadesi che hanno cominciato a scrivere a metà degli anni Sessanta: Patrick Lane, Margaret Atwood, Alden Nowlan. Ho letto molti poeti in traduzione, Tomas Tranströmer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi… Sono in sintonia con gli scrittori spagnoli più che con quelli italiani, ma amo Eugenio Montale, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salvatore Quasimodo, Ungaretti. Qualcosa si perde nella traduzione, ma molto rimane. Non riesco a immaginare la mia poesia senza Vallejo, Mistral, Ingeborg Bachmann, Anna Achmatova, Czeslaw Milosz, Osip Mandel’stam e i magistrali haiku di Issa e di Basho”.

Lei insegna scrittura creativa. A suo avviso, è possibile insegnare la ‘creatività’? Come insegna ai suoi studenti a comprendere la propria personale ispirazione poetica?

“La tecnica si può insegnare: il modo di chiudere un verso libero, i rudimenti del ritmo, le scelte che vanno compiute per la cernita delle parole adatte, la necessità di adottare varie forme. Queste cose le puoi imparare da solo, ma con un buon insegnante fai prima. Ma, come ha detto Aristotele, non penso che l’abilità di costruire metafore possa essere insegnata. E questa è una delle abilità più importanti, o meglio, dei ‘talenti’. È un tropo sacro: l’unione di cose dissimili che affermano la connessione tra un uomo e un altro, tra uomo e animale, tra corpo e anima, tra passato e futuro. O il salto verbale, la sintesi, in un poema, che è essenziale perché una poesia non sia mediocre, non si può insegnare. Un insegnante può aiutarti ad affinare qualcosa del genere, ma queste cose o le hai o non le hai. Una cosa che ho fatto come insegnante è stata aiutare gli studenti a credere in se stessi e nelle loro storie, ad affermare che ciò che hanno vissuto importa, senza che importi da dove vengono o quali privazioni abbiano subito durante l’infanzia. Voglio che escano dalla mia lezione come lettori migliori rispetto a quando sono entrati classe. La poesia in sé è la migliore insegnate di poesia”.

Quale idea di vita propone nella sua poesia?

“Spero che la mia poesia trasmetta che la vita è piena di meraviglia, di connessione, di follia, di gioia, di dolore. Spero che suggerisca che c’è un solo canto per tutto e che gli esseri umani non sono i soli a cantarlo. Spero che suggerisca che le parole di una poesia possono placare una sete che non si sapeva di avere, che le parole possano fare l’amore con te, brutalmente o dolcemente, che le parole possano mostrarti ciò che non ti rendi conto di non vedere. Spero che suggerisca che l’umano non ha più valore del gatto, del cavallo, della salamandra, ma che l’inestimabile è in tutti noi”.

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Paura dei serpenti

  Il serpente sa separarsi dalla sua ombra, che si muove su nastri di luce, nell’aria, mattino e sera, nell’oscurità al cuore delle cose. Ricordo quando la paura dei serpenti è sparita. Cadde dalle spalle come una vecchia pelle. A Swift Current i ragazzi trovarono un serpente enorme, mi inseguirono lungo i vicoli, Larry Moen lo muove come una torcia verde, gli altri urlano, Buttaglielo sulla schiena, il mio terrore che scivoli lungo il tunnel della mia schiena (Larry, quello che mi ha toccato tra le gambe, il primo, è il ragazzo più grande e noi dovremmo sapere che non dobbiamo avvicinarci a lui con i nostri piccoli vestiti e la pelle morbida), mio fratello che dice, Lasciala andare, e io che mi accuccio dietro la caragana, e guardo Larry che inchioda il serpente al palo del telefono. Si contorceva su due punti di luce, incapace di strisciare rotto dal dolore, la bocca aperta, la rossa lingua che assapora il suo terrore, l’ho amato, allora, quel serpente. I ragazzi stanno lì con le loro mani cretine che penzolano dai polsi, la bellissima verde bocca che si apre, una oscurità tremenda a forma di O che nessuno può udire.

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La mia ultima poesia erotica

  Chi vuole ascoltare di due vecchiacci che si montano nel sedile posteriore di una Buick, nel capanno del giardino tra la vermiculite, in cucina dove dovremmo trangugiare ovomaltina e dire no? Chi vuole ascoltare di circa 26 anni di avvitamenti, della nostra non certo seducente carne ora sciolta come pasta per pizza che si attacca tra le mani prima di essere sbattuta?

Chi vuole ascoltare di due vecchi amanti, che si schiaffeggiano come l’acqua sul fango, capelli dove non dovrebbero esserci e poca roba dove dovrebbe esserci qualcosa, il mio piede dall’alluce infiammato che scorre sul tuo polpaccio ossuto, le tue mani callose che sprofondano nello scivolo della mia pancia, i nostri vaghi gemiti, al collasso?

Dobbiamo indossare gli occhiali per vedere qualcosa!

Quando sussurri quello che vuoi io non sento ma fallo comunque, e fallo bene in qualche modo. Rassegnati, alcune notti preferiamo mangiare Haagen Dazs o vedere un film con Nick Nolte che pare messo peggio di noi. Certe notti preferiamo accarezzare i gatti.

Chi vuole sapere come facciamo a farlo sappiamo che siamo entusiasti come la prima volta – onesti – come la prima volta, se solo potessimo ricordarlo, i nostri vecchi corpi fanno ciò che sai i corpi fanno, consumati e belli e spudorati.

Lorna Crozier

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When does instinct for poetry arise in you? What are your main themes in poetry? In short: from ‘Inside in the Sky’ to ‘What the Soul Doesn’t Want’, what has changed in your inspiration?

For forty years, I have been writing and publishing poetry. The instinct to do so is embedded in my blood and bones. It’s as much a part of me as breathing, eating, sleeping, and loving those close to me. I can’t separate it from what I am. I can understand the haiku-master’s practice of writing a death poem. I hope my last breath will end my last line, and that someone dear to me will be there to write it down. I hope this someone dear is also a good editor, and that if the final poem is bad, they’ll throw it out!

In my poetry, I’ve always been aware of writing as an act of breaking through a silence that is often more eloquent than any combination of words. Many of the personas I adopt are those who have not been given a chance to speak, those who have not been included in the pages of books. That includes my parents. They were rural, working class people who had few books around the house and who were not intellectual in any way. I didn’t come across people like them in my country’s literature. I’ve also taken on the retelling of myths, switching the point of view to those who haven’t been offered a voice, mainly women. What did Sarah think, I wondered, when her husband Abraham, on the command of their god, went off to kill their son? Was Isis, when she was asked to reassemble Osiris, tempted to leave off his penis or reshape it? How would our world be different if the Old Testament god had had a mother and a wife? I enjoy the “what-if” impulse in poetry, the part that demands the sparkiest of one’s imagination.

I’ve also been fascinated by the effect of landscape on character. I was born in desert-like corner of the world with no big trees. Now I live in a rainforest. I would be a different person and a different writer if I’d been born on Vancouver Island rather than Saskatchewan.

What value do you give to poetry? Does poetry also have an ‘ethical’ or ‘political’ value? Can poetry change history or men?

Reading and writing poetry is a method of survival for me. It makes me feel less alone. It affirms my love for the world in my too-short-time on earth. That’s a major accomplishment for any art form. Poetry, I believe, acts on our very cells because of its music. It quickens our heartbeats, our intellect, our bright seeing. Can it therefore change history or men? Yes, but perhaps in increments. It’s capable of making us better human beings, more in tune with other forms of life, less rigid, more empathic. Does it make us closer to animals, at one with the ocean and the wind? I hope so. Does it make us value what cannot be bought and sold? I hope so.

I have seen that you have received many awards from the Canadian government and readers. What value do you assign to the prizes?

Prizes are good for publishers and booksellers, but not for writers. There is only one winner out of hundreds and hundreds of books and the rest are in danger of being forgotten. I appreciated winning prizes because the juries were composed of my peers and their approval was affirmative. But prizes bring more harm than good, I think, particularly when readers base their choices on who won this year and ignore the rest. Prizes lead to reader laziness. That is not a good thing.

What are your poetry ‘teachers’? The classical authors, the contemporaries? What do you like to read? Which poets do you love to read? Do you know Italian poets, do you read them?

In school, I fell in love with the Romantic poets, with Shakespeare, with Robert Browning and Tennyson. They were my first teachers. Then there was Eliot, followed by the great Canadians who began writing in the mid-sixties: Patrick Lane, Margaret Atwood, Alden Nowlan. I read a lot of poets in translation now: Transtromer, Rilke, Rumi, etc. I’m more familiar with Spanish writers than Italian though I like Montale, Pasolini, Quasimodo, Ungaretti. Something is indeed lost in translation but so much remains. I can’t imagine what my poetry would be like without Vallejo, Mistral, Bachman, Ahkmatova, Milosz, Mandlestam and the masterful haikuists, particularly Issa and Basho.

I read that you teach creative writing. In your opinion, is it possible to teach creativity? How do you bring your students to understand their poetic inspiration?

Technique can be taught: the way to end a free-verse line, the rudimentaries of rhythm, the choices involved with selecting one word over another, the demands of various forms. You can learn these things on your own, but if you have a good teacher, you can learn them more quickly. But like Aristotle, I don’t think the metaphor-making ability can be taught. And that is one of the most important skills, or I should say “talents.” It’s a holy trope: the bringing together of two unlike things affirming the connection that exists between one human and the other, between human and animal, between the body and the soul, between the past and the future. Or the quick leaping inside a poem that is essential for a poem to be anything but mediocre—that can’t be taught. A teacher can help you hone something like that, but I think you either have it or you don’t. I could be wrong. One of the things I tried to do as a teacher was to help students believe in themselves and their own stories, to affirm that what they have lived matters no matter where they come from or what in their childhood they lacked. I also wanted them to be better readers when they left my class than when they entered. Poetry itself is the best teacher of poetry.

What idea of ​​life do you propose – if it exists – in your poetry?

I hope my poetry proposes that life is full of wonder, connectivity, madness, joy, grief. I hope it proposes that there is a song for everything and that human beings are not the only ones singing. I hope it proposes that words in a poem can slake a thirst you didn’t even know you had, that words can make love to you, rough or gentle, that words can show you what you didn’t realize you couldn’t see. I hope it proposes that the human is no more valuable than the cat, the horse, the salamander, but what a pricelessness there is in us all.

  L'articolo “L’uomo non vale più di un gatto. La poesia insegna che l’inestimabile è in tutto”: dialogo con Lorna Crozier, poetessa totale proviene da Pangea.

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ITV names EasyJet’s Carolyn McCall as new chief executive – BBC News

ITV has appointed the boss of EasyJet, Carolyn McCall, as its new chief executive.

Ms McCall, who has been at EasyJet for seven years, will take over the running of the commercial broadcaster early next year. ITV's previous chief executive, Adam Crozier, left in June.

She will be paid an annual salary of 900,000, plus pension and possible bonus and incentives.

Before running EasyJet, Ms McCall was chief executive at the Guardian.

She also is a non-executive director at fashion company Burberry, sits on the board of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is a trustee at the Royal Academy.

Ms McCall said the decision to leave EasyJet had been "really difficult", but after seven years at the company the time was right for a move: "The opportunity from ITV felt like the right one to take. It is a fantastic company in a dynamic and stimulating sector."

ITV chairman Peter Bazalgette said: "In a very impressive field of high calibre candidates, Carolyn stood out for her track record in media, experience of an international operation, clear strategic acumen and strong record of delivering value to shareholders. I'm delighted we'll be working together at ITV."

John Barton, EasyJet chairman, said: "I speak for absolutely everyone at EasyJet in saying we will be sorry to see Carolyn leave and that we wish her well in her exciting new role."

Her bonus plan on joining ITV will be up to a maximum of 180% of salary, and there will be a long-term incentive plan up to 265% of salary.

ITV described it as "broadly the same remuneration opportunity" to Mr Crozier's.

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Trump Hates The Military

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/hx6xgo/uinb4_found_the_vegan_provides_a_comprehensive/fz4va1z/

•  The Pentagon is apparently attempting to dissolve "Stars and Stripes," a popular military newspaper that has been published using taxpayer dollars since the Civil War. The House is working to counteract the memo and associated budgetary change that would shutter the paper, but the Senate has not yet taken action. September, 2020. [[USA Today]](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/04/trump-and-stars-and-stripes-attacking-american-icon-column/5706859002/)

•  The president reportedly called John McCain and George H. W. Bush "losers" when addressing his staff due to McCain being a POW and Bush getting shot down during WWII. Additionally, sources claim he was absent from a ceremony in a French military cemetery in 2018 because "he did not believe it important to honor American war dead," and separately referred to 1800 Marine war casualties as "suckers" for getting killed. Reported September, 2020. [[The Atlantic]](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/)

• After [staffing the VA with campaign doners](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d699d5ce4b01108044f28c5), VA officials removed the 48-hour review of changes to veterans' claims which veterans' groups and 42 Attorneys General argue is critical to ensuring accuracy of the claims process. July, 2020. [[Stripes]](https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/va-opposes-efforts-to-reinstate-48-hour-review-process-for-claims-1.637829)

• Trump promised to veto Defense Spending Bill, suspending military pay, if Congress introduces amendment to change names of military bases. The amendment passed both houses of Congress intact. July, 2020. [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-senate-idUSKBN23W38I)

• Intelligence was incorporated into the PDB around March 2020 that Russia paid bounties to kill American troops. Since then, Trump has petitioned world leaders to bring Russia back into the G8, and has dismissed the intelligence reports as non-credible. June, 2020. [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-idUSKBN23Z0HX)

• The White House attempted to end National Guard deployments one day before they could claim benefits. May, 2020. [[Politico]](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/national-guard-coronavirus-267514) The deployments were extended after the story broke, but it's unclear if it was because of the story, since some of those deployments were later extended again. [[The Hill]](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/499937-trump-to-extend-national-guard-deployments-through-mid-august)

• The Trump adminstration seized 5 million masks intended for VA hospitals. April, 2020. [[Huffpost]](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ea4c72dc5b6805f9ece2bc3) Jared Kushner allegedly created a middleman between government agencies and the National Stockpile by distributing equipment to private companies for a fee, and contacting those companies to sell the equipment to various agencies, states, and localities. [[Politico]](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/republican-fundraiser-company-coronavirus-152184)

• Brett Crozier, the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, was relieved of command by the acting Secretary of the Navy after warning superiors that a COVID19 outbreak would likely sideline the aircraft carrier. The virus subsequently spread amongst the crew. March, 2020. [[USNI Timeline]](https://news.usni.org/2020/06/23/timeline-theodore-roosevelt-covid-19-outbreak-investigation) Historically, COs have been relieved of command by the Commodore of their squadron, the Chief of Naval Personnel, or the Chief of Naval Operations. This relief was conducted by the Secretary, who is appointed by the President, meaning it is highly likely that the President had a hand in making the decision. [[Business Insider]](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wanted-to-fired-the-us-navy-captain-brett-crozier-2020-4?op=1)

• The Trump adminstration suddenly removed 9,500 servicemembers from Germany, purportedly without consulting the German Foreign Ministry or NATO. March, 2020 [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-military-criticism-idUSKBN23D0JN)

• After Iran's retaliatory strike, 109 US troops suffered brain injuries. Trump dismissed these as "headaches." February, 2020. [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-tbi-exclusive/more-than-100-u-s-troops-diagnosed-with-brain-injuries-from-iran-attack-idUSKBN2041ZK)

• Trump has pardoned multiple war criminals, despite recommendations from military officials. He also intervened often on the Eddie Gallagher case, getting him removed from solitary confinement, stopping an internal community review that would have stripped Gallagher of his warfare device, demanding on Twitter that he not lose rank, and firing then SecNav Richard Spencer when Spencer pushed back. November, 2019. [[AP Gallagher Timeline]](https://apnews.com/097da598195d42b08a9271e3c82b05b5) [[Spencer WashPo OpEd]](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-spencer-i-was-fired-as-navy-secretary-heres-what-ive-learned-because-of-it/2019/11/27/9c2e58bc-1092-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html) [[Politico]](https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/15/trump-pardon-war-crimes-071244)

• Trump removed Lt. Col. Vindman and his brother from their positions in the White House when Vindman agreed to testify as part of the Ukraine debacle. Trump also criticized Vindman for asserting his rank and wearing his uniform while giving testimony. Vindman's promotion to O-6 was reportedly contested by the President, and Vindman opted to retire shortly thereafter. November, 2019, June, 2020. [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-vindman/an-officer-and-an-impeachment-witness-he-draws-ire-of-trump-allies-idUSKBN1XT2WP) [[Military Times]](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/07/08/lt-col-alexander-vindman-who-testified-against-trump-announces-retirement-from-the-army/)

• Trump abruptly withdrew support from America's allies in Syria after a phone call with Turkey's president. October, 2019. [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-usa/trump-tells-pentagon-to-begin-withdrawing-remaining-troops-from-northern-syria-idUSKBN1WS0GH)

• The Trump administration sent American troops to defend the oil assets of the country that perpetrated 9/11. September, 2019. [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/saudi-aramco-usa-pentagon/pentagon-to-send-troops-to-bolster-saudi-defenses-after-attack-idUSL2N26B1V0)

•  Trump tweeted a photo of an Iranian launch site from a potentially classified source. August, 2019. [[NPR]](https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755994591/president-trump-tweets-sensitive-surveillance-image-of-iran)

• Trump illegally diverted approved funding for schools on military bases, military housing, and daycare facilities to help pay for the border wall. August, 2019. [[NPR $3.6B, 2019]](https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757463817/these-are-the-11-border-projects-getting-funds-intended-for-military-constructio) [[NPR, $3.8B, 2020]](https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/805796618/trump-administration-diverts-3-8-billion-in-pentagon-funding-to-border-wall)

• Trump appointed three of his Mar-a-Lago pals to run the VA. They were later accused of "meddling" by other VA staff. August, 2019. [[Huffpost]](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d699d5ce4b01108044f28c5)

• Veterans graves may be displaced due to border wall construction. August, 2019. [[Video from local NBC affiliate]](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8gHGBUj1i2M)

• Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals given to Eddie Gallagher's prosecution team. July, 2019. [[Reuters]](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navyseal-warcrimes-trump-idUSKCN1UQ2SC)

• Trump sent troops to the border to assist with logistics, provide security, and paint the fence for a better "aesthetic appearance." June, 2019. [[Military Times]](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/06/06/some-troops-to-spend-the-next-month-painting-border-fence-with-mexico/)

• Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military, got a full time job, or joined the Peace Corps. Reported June, 2019. [[Vanity Fair]](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/marla-maple-prenup-donald-trump-marriage)

• Trump turned away US servicemembers from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain. May, 2019. [[Business Insider]](https://www.businessinsider.com/uss-john-mccain-sailors-were-turned-away-from-trump-speech-2019-5?op=1)

• White House staffers reportedly discussed moving or covering the USS John McCain during the president's visit to Japan. A [later report](https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/politics/uss-john-mccain-japan-white-house-navy-trump/index.html) explains that the ship's name was covered by a tarp for topside preservation, but the tarp was removed while the president was still in Japan. May, 2019. [[Navy Times]](https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/05/30/white-house-tells-navy-to-keep-destroyer-mccain-out-of-sight-during-trump-visit-to-japan-report-says/)

• The Trump adminstration purged 200,000 healthcare applications submitted to the VA. Reported May, 2019. [[Military.com Blog]](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/16/report-va-abandoned-more-200000-incomplete-vets-health-care-applications.html)

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Mỹ đang vật lộn với Covid-19 và bàn cờ địa chính trị

(bởi Admin, 11/04/2020

Nguyễn Quang Dy

(theo Viet-Studies)

“Tuần này sẽ là thời điểm Trân Châu cảng, thời điểm 11/9” (Jerome Adams).

(truy cập từ https://www.danluan.org/tin-tuc/20200411/my-dang-vat-lon-voi-covid-19-va-ban-co-dia-chinh-tri)

Ánh sáng cuối đường hầm

Tổng thống Trump nói tại cuộc họp báo hằng ngày tại nhà Trắng [toà Bạch ốc] (4/4): “Tuần này chắc sẽ là tuần khó khăn nhất… nhưng đã thấy ánh sáng tại cuối đường hầm”. Bây giờ ông Trump ủng hộ nhận định của các chuyên gia y tế hàng đầu như ông Anthony Fauci (giám đốc viện NIAID) và bà Deborah Birx (điều phối nhóm đặc nhiệm về Covid-19 tại nhà Trắng).

Ông Jerome Adams (Surgeon General) cũng nói với “Fox News Sunday” (5/4): “Tuần này sẽ là thời điểm Trân Châu cảng, thời điểm 11/9… Đây là thời điểm khó khăn nhất và đáng buồn nhất đối với nhiều người Mỹ trong cả cuộc đời của họ” (“Surgeon general warns this week is going to be our Pearl harbor moment”, Quint Forgey, Politico, April 5, 2020).

Trước đó (ngày 31/3) các chuyên gia y tế hàng đầu nhận định rằng trong mấy tháng tới, hàng triệu người Mỹ có thể lây nhiễm và “100.000 đến 240.000 người Mỹ có thể chết vì Covid-19”. Dự báo gây sốc đó dựa trên tính toán khoa học, được nhà Trắng ủng hộ. Kết cục đó vừa do Covid-19 từ Trung quốc đổ bộ vào Mỹ, vừa do người Mỹ quá chủ quan.

Theo New York Times (4/4), có 430.000 hành khách đã đến Mỹ trên các chuyến bay từ Trung quốc, trong đó có 4.000 người Trung quốc đến từ Vũ Hán (theo VariFlight). Với cuộc đổ bộ đó làm sao Mỹ “ngăn chặn được người Trung quốc” như ông Trump nói. Covid-19 đã âm thầm lây lan mà không biết, vì 25% số người bị lây nhiễm không có triệu chứng.

Đến nay (10/4) Covid-19 đã lan ra 210 nước và lãnh thổ, với 1.632.577 ca lây nhiễm và 97,583 người chết. Mỹ nay đứng đầu với 475.237 ca lây nhiễm và 17.055 người chết. Tây Ban Nha đứng thứ hai với 157.022 ca và 15.843 người chết. Ý đứng thứ ba với 143.626 ca và 18.279 người chết. Nhưng Covid-19 như một kẻ khát máu vẫn chưa buông tha.

Sau khi kiểm soát được dịch, Trung quốc từ vị trí đứng đầu nay đứng thứ sáu với 81.907 ca lây nhiễm và 3.336 người chết. Nhưng dư luận Mỹ cho rằng các con số đó thấp so với sự thật. Hiện có 21 triệu thuê bao điện thoại di động không còn hoạt động, và hàng ngàn bình tro hài cốt để tại 6 địa điểm hỏa táng ở Vũ Hán (“CIA hunts for authentic virus totals in China dismissing government tallies”, Julian Barnes, New York Times, April 2, 2020).

Không đối phó kịp thời

Ngay sau khi Mỹ và Trung quốc ký kết “giai đoạn một” thỏa thuận thương mại (15/1) hai siêu cường lại bị xô đẩy vào cuộc chiến mới với Covid-19, với hệ quả khó lường. Thiệt hại không chỉ về người và y tế mà còn làm khủng hoảng kinh tế và chính trị. Mỹ và Trung quốc không chỉ tranh chấp về thương mại mà nay còn cãi nhau về nguồn gốc Covid-19.

Theo Bloomberg (2/4/2020) nhà Trắng [toà Bạch ốc] đã được các cơ quan tình báo Mỹ cho biết là Trung quốc đã không nói thật về các con số lây nhiễm và chết do Covid-19, nên Mỹ đã bị động không đối phó kịp thời với đại dịch này. Nhưng thiếu hụt thông tin chỉ là một phần câu chuyện, phần còn lại là do chính mình. Tại sao Đài Loan đối phó được mà Mỹ lại không?

Nếu ai tin Trung quốc nói thật thì là ngây thơ và không hiểu về người Trung quốc. Trong lịch sử Trung quốc người ta cho rằng việc lừa nhau là chính đáng như nghệ thuật trị quốc và một phần của cuộc sống. Mỹ đã áp dụng chính sách “tiếp cận xây dựng” trong nhiều thập kỷ với hy vọng Trung quốc “trỗi dậy hòa bình” đến khi họ nhận ra đó là ảo tưởng.

Dù Covid-19 lây lan thành đại dịch có phải là chủ định như một vũ khí sinh học hay không (theo thuyết âm mưu) thì chẳng ai khẳng định được. Chỉ biết rằng nay Milan và New York đang biến thành Vũ Hán. Đó là hệ quả của tình trạng thiếu hợp tác và hỗn loạn trong “trật tự thế giới” (disorder). Đó là nguyên nhân làm các nước không thể đối phó kịp thời.

Nói cách khác, cộng đồng châu Âu (EU) và Mỹ đang phải đối phó với Covid-19 lây lan quá nhanh, trong khi não trạng con người và thể chế các nước thay đổi quá chậm (too little too late). Chính quyền Trump vì “America first” đã bỏ rơi vai trò lãnh đạo và trợ giúp thế giới. Nay họ còn chủ quan bỏ lỡ cơ hội kiểm soát dịch đến khi quá muộn nên vỡ trận.

Vừa đối đầu vừa hợp tác

Trong cuộc khủng hoảng Covid-19, EU và Mỹ phải tự cứu mình. Một EU với 550 triệu dân và hầu như không còn biên giới, đang bị bỏ ngỏ. Trong khi Ý bị EU bỏ rơi thì Trung quốc, Nga và Cuba tỏ ra hào phóng. Hình ảnh đoàn xe quân sự của hồng quân cắm cờ Nga, sơn logo “From Rusia with love”, diễu hành trên đất Ý là một thách thức đối với NATO.

Trong bối cảnh chính trị Mỹ phân hóa sâu sắc làm vô hiệu hóa chính sách công, chắc ông Trump không thể tiếp tục giành phiếu bằng đánh bạc với Covid-19, vì hệ quả khó lường. Nếu hàng triệu người Mỹ bị lây nhiễm và hàng trăm ngàn người chết như cảnh báo, thì cơ hội tái cử của ông chắc cũng tiêu tan. Liệu Mỹ có để cho các bác sỹ Cuba vào giúp không?

Tại sao dịch Covid-19 chỉ bùng phát tại các nước phương Tây giàu có? Chẳng lẽ các nước nghèo ở châu Phi lạc hậu tới mức không thể thống kê được số người bị lây nhiễm? Tại sao Đài Loan, Hong Kong và Hàn quốc không cần đóng cửa (lockdown) mà vẫn không thiếu máy thở? Chắc sau lần này, “thế giới sẽ không thể tiếp tục như thế này được nữa”.

Khủng hoảng Covid-19 đã làm bộc lộ các góc khuất và “gót chân Asin” của các nước. Loài người cần tỉnh ngộ trước bản chất của cuộc chiến toàn cầu với Covid-19, vì họ vẫn chưa hiểu đối thủ và không sẵn sàng đối phó do còn nhiều “điểm mù”. Không chỉ các đảng phái chính trị mà các cộng đồng dân chúng cũng bị phân hóa và ngày càng cực đoan.

Theo giáo sư Graham Allison (đại học Harvard), Mỹ và Trung quốc có thể vừa đối đầu vừa hợp tác để chống lại Covid-19, dù là “đối tác hạn chế” vì các nước phụ thuộc lẫn nhau. Tuy đó là một nghịch lý của toàn cầu hóa, nhưng “không có cách nào khác” (“In war against Coronavirus: is China foe or friend?”. Graham Allison, National interest, March 27, 2020).

Bàn cờ địa chính trị

Covid-19 đã bất ngờ tấn công loài người, làm sống lại bóng ma Trân Châu cảng. Dù nó là sản phẩm của tạo hóa hay nhân tạo, thì tất cả các nước gồm siêu cường Mỹ và Trung quốc đều là nạn nhân của thảm họa với những tổn thất nặng nề. Covid-19 tuy vô hình nhưng có thể vô hiệu hóa tàu sân bay USS Theodore Rousevelt và làm cho thế giới khủng hoảng.

Bàn cờ địa chính trị tại biển Đông diễn biến khó lường trước hệ quả đại dịch Covid-19 tại Trung quốc và Mỹ. Khi Trung quốc phải đối phó với Covid-19 bùng phát thì Mỹ điều tàu sân bay USS Theodore Rousevelt đến thăm Đà Nẵng (5/3/2020). Khi Mỹ phải đối phó với đại dịch thì Trung quốc không bỏ lỡ cơ hội “thiên hạ đại loạn” để thâu tóm biển Đông.

Ngày 20/3, Trung quốc đã khánh thành hai trạm nghiên cứu mới trên đảo đá Xu-Bi và Chữ Thập. Họ đã khai thác 862.400m3 khí từ “băng cháy” (hydrates) tại Bắc biển Đông (17/2 – 18/3), và tập trận với sự tham gia của tàu sân bay Liêu Ninh. (“China seizes Covid-19 advantage in South China sea”, Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times, April 1, 2020).

Trong khi đó, tàu sân bay USS Theodore Rousevelt phải cách ly tại cảng Guam vì 155 thủy thủy bị lây nhiễm Covid-19 sau chuyến thăm Đà Nẵng. Theo New York Times (5/4) thuyền trưởng Brett Crozier cũng có kết quả dương tính sau khi bị cách chức. Đáng tiếc là tàu sân bay Mỹ đã đến thăm Việt Nam không đúng lúc khi Covid-19 đang lây lan khắp nơi.

Sự kiện rủi ro của tàu USS Theodore Rousevelt buộc hải quân Mỹ phải rút kinh nghiệm và thận trọng hơn trong kế hoạch triển khai hợp tác chiến lược với Việt Nam và ASEAN. Sự biến động về so sánh lực lượng và bàn cờ địa chính trị biển Đông ảnh hưởng đến lợi ích chiến lược sống còn không chỉ của Việt Nam và ASEAN mà còn của Mỹ và đồng minh.

Ngày 2/4, tàu Trung quốc đã đâm chìm một tàu cá Việt Nam tại vùng biển Hoàng Sa. Bộ ngoại giao Việt Nam đã phản đối mạnh mẽ, và được bộ ngoại giao Mỹ ủng hộ. Trước đó (30/3) Việt Nam đã gửi công hàm cho Ủy ban ranh giới thềm lục địa Liên hợp quốc phản đối các yêu sách của Trung quốc tại biển Đông trong các công hàm của họ trước đó.

Lời cuối

Theo Carl Thayer, Trung quốc đang điều chỉnh chiến lược, với “ngoại giao coronavirus” theo “tam chủng chiến pháp” (chiến tranh tâm lý, pháp lý, và dư luận). Mục đích là tranh thủ lúc Mỹ và EU đang bị sa lầy vào khủng hoảng Covid-19, để tối đa lợi ích. Trước mắt, họ muốn thay đổi câu chuyện về nguồn gốc coronavirus nhằm đánh tráo hình ảnh và “lấy lòng dư luận” (charm offensive). Về lâu dài, họ muốn tranh giành với Mỹ vai trò lãnh đạo thế giới.

Mùa Xuân sắp qua, mùa Hè sắp tới. Nhưng Covid-19 vẫn chưa dừng lại. Hãy còn quá sớm để khẳng định “Covid-19 sẽ vẫy tay chào Việt Nam để ra đi trong nắng Hè rực rỡ” và Việt Nam lại là nước tiên phong thành công về chống dịch Covid-19. Dù điều đó có là sự thật chăng nữa thì biết đâu sang năm hay sau đó, Covid-19 hay bà con của nó còn quay lại.

Tham khảo

1. In War Against Coronavirus: Is China Foe or Friend? Graham Allison, National interest, March 27, 2020

2. Trump shows off new rapid coronavirus test kit in Rose Garden, as HHS says 1 million Americans tested, Andrew O’Reilly, Fox news, March 31, 2020

3. With the Coronavirus, It’s Again Trump vs. Mother Nature, Thomas Friedman, New York Times, March 31, 2020

4. China seizes Covid-19 advantage in the South China Sea, Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times, April 1, 2020

5. CIA Hunts for Authentic Virus Totals in China Dismissing Government Tallies, Julian Barnes, New York Times, April 2, 2020

6. This is just the first in a series of cascading crises, Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, April 3, 2020

7. Why the Coronavirus Is Making U.S.-China Relations Worse, Joseph Nye, National Interest, April 3, 2020

8. The Ugly End of Chimerica, Orville Schell, Foreign Policy, April 3, 2020,

9. The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order, Henry Kissinger, Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2020

10. Surgeon general warns this week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, Quint Forgey, Politico, April 5, 2020

11. US aircraft carrier should never have been sent to Vietnam, Stephen Bryen, Asia Times, April 5, 2020

12. Vietnam's lost year: Coronavirus dulls diplomatic ambitions, Toru Takahashi, Nikkei Asian Review, April 6, 2020

13. The Belt and Road After COVID-19, Plamen Tonchev, Diplomat, April 7, 2020

14. China’s coronavirus diplomacy and ambition of world leadership, BBC interviews Carl Thayer, April 8, 2020

NQD. 10/4/2020

(tác giả gửi cho Viet-Studies ngày 10-4-20)

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Article proposé par notre nouvel expert, Dominique BERIOT  (spécialiste de l’approche systémique du changement et du management dans les entreprises depuis plus de 40 ans), conférencier  et auteur de nombreux articles & ouvrages, dont le dernier paru en Février 2018, “Guide systémique du manager d’équipe: 40 situations managériales du quotidien“ aux Editions Eyrolles)

N°1, Avril 2018 

  Avant-Propos : les articles de Dominique Bériot qui seront publiés sur http://www.managersante.com  seront plus particulièrement centrés sur le management et le changement par l’approche systémique. Les premiers articles aborderont une vision globale afin de faciliter une meilleure compréhension de cette nouvelle logique.  En effet, l’approche systémique s’applique quel que soit le type d’organisation, de métier, de contexte et donc tout aussi bien en milieu hospitalier.

  Accéder à un système complexe oblige à passer d’une vision analytique à une vision systémique. Cette approche a quelque chose de révolutionnaire dans notre culture en ce sens qu’elle consiste, entre autres, à faire l’impasse sur la recherche des causes, à renoncer à l’interprétation des comportements et à éviter le recours à des modèles.

La complexité : une nébuleuse inaccessible

C’est un concept difficile à saisir. Les économistes, les spécialistes de la Bourse, les experts en épidémiologie ou en météorologie, les sondeurs et j’en passe, utilisent des outils d’analyse et de modélisation très sophistiqués pour tenter de faire des prévisions dans ces domaines complexes. Si leurs modèles et leurs résultats étaient fiables, cela se saurait !

J’affirme, sans trop de risque d’erreur, que la complexité est impossible à saisir et à maîtriser. Elle traduit l’état d’un système dans lequel circulent de nombreux flux diversifiés et multidirectionnels, dont les infinies combinaisons confèrent à ce système des profils différents dans le temps.

Par exemple, une équipe projet met en jeu un tel nombre de variables qu’elle dépasse nos capacités d’analyse et a fortiori de prévision comportementale. Et cela est d’autant plus évident qu’elle est dispersée et multiculturelle.

La complexité ne réside pas uniquement dans les caractéristiques des systèmes, elle existe également dans le regard porté par chacun sur une même situation.

Que l’on soit dirigeant, ingénieur, psychologue, technicien, commercial, cadre hospitalier ou même autodidacte, nous utilisons des automatismes issus de notre culture elle-même influencée par la logique que je qualifierai de psycho-analytique. Or, celle-ci s’avère de moins en moins adaptée pour résoudre des problèmes d’organisation et de relations impliquant divers acteurs.

Pour les gérer, les managers ont besoin de trouver une autre façon de penser et d’agir en rupture totale avec leurs modes habituels de raisonnement. C’est ce que propose la systémique.

Mais le plus fondamental dans ce choix tient au fait qu’elle s’appuie sur des lois universelles, contrairement à la pensée analytique qui repose sur des modèles.

Identifier leurs différences, sans les opposer puisqu’elles peuvent se compléter, devrait permettre de mieux s’approprier l’approche systémique.

Quelles sont les différences entre les logiques analytique et systémique ?

La logique psycho-analytique de pensée et d’action

Dans cette logique agir consiste d’abord à fouiller le passé pour rechercher les causes d’une problématique, à examiner l’histoire du système pour le comprendre, à se positionner ensuite comme si la résolution du problème était l’objectif à atteindre. L’hypothèse analytique postule que la prise de conscience des causes d’un dysfonctionnement permet de le résoudre. Or, cette logique incite à décortiquer le problème et à s’appesantir dessus.

Figure 1 : La logique psycho-analytique : “Le but est l’identification des causes”

La logique systémique, une révolution culturelle

A l’inverse, la logique systémique incite à se détacher du problème pour se consacrer prioritairement à ce que le système d’acteurs pourrait obtenir si le problème n’y faisait pas obstacle. Il s’agit d’abord de faire préciser l’objectif recherché avant d’apprécier, parmi les processus en cours, les leviers d’action pertinents sur lesquels fonder sa stratégie et ses actions.

 Ainsi, elle postule que la recherche d’explications d’un dysfonctionnement entre des personnes ou des entités n’est pas nécessaire pour le résoudre. Les actions du présent se définissent à partir du futur souhaité.

Figure 2 : La logique systémique : ”  Le but est la clarification de l’objectif masqué par le problème “

  Il est clair que face à une même situation, les comportements diffèrent selon la logique retenue. Ces deux figures montrent à l’évidence que les flèches se dirigent en sens contraires ! L’une retourne à la source du problème, l’autre oriente vers l’objectif à atteindre par une démarche volontariste.

  CAS PRATIQUE : deux managers face à une même problématique

Deux managers responsables de projets semblables ne parviennent pas à obtenir de leurs collaborateurs qu’ils respectent leurs engagements sur les délais, et cela malgré plusieurs observations. Ils sont régulièrement mis devant le fait accompli : les tâches prévues ne sont pas réalisées à temps et les retards font systématiquement l’objet de justifications. Les deux chefs de projet décident d’y remédier.

1er  manager  : 

Le premier fonctionne selon une logique analytique. Il fait réaliser des interviews pour recueillir, puis analyser, les difficultés de ses collaborateurs. L’analyse, le diagnostic et les recommandations font l’objet d’un rapport qui lui est transmis. Deux mois s’écoulent avant qu’il puisse réunir les membres de son équipe pour examiner le rapport et leur faire prendre conscience des raisons de leurs difficultés.

Au cours de la réunion, les échanges glissent subrepticement vers les acteurs responsables de la situation. Afin d’atteindre son objectif (respecter les délais), le chef de projet essaie de convaincre ses interlocuteurs de faire des efforts. Pour les aider, il tente également de réfléchir avec eux sur des actions à envisager. Mais ceux-ci se contentent de demander des moyens supplémentaires et insistent sur les demandes excessives voire incohérentes de leurs commanditaires.

Bilan : une absence d’amélioration de la situation, chacun ayant persisté dans son comportement.

2ème manager  : 

Le second suit une logique systémique. Il réunit les membres de son équipe. Après un rappel des faits, il leur donne la possibilité  d’exprimer leurs difficultés et leurs émotions en se gardant bien d’analyser avec eux les informations recueillies.

Ensuite, il les oriente vers un futur proche, par cette question  : ” A quoi  souhaitons-nous parvenir vis-à-vis de nos commanditaires ? “. Deux objectifs communs se dégagent : respecter les délais et adapter le fonctionnement de l’équipe.

Ils travaillent alors sur les actions à envisager. Trois mois plus tard, ils constatent une très nette amélioration.

Pour mieux distinguer ces deux logiques, j’ai choisi de présenter quelques-unes de leurs caractéristiques en termes de pensée et d’action (voir tableau ci-dessous) :

 Tableau de comparaison entre les modes de pensée et d’action analytique et systémique

Ces différences se retrouvent bien entendu dans plusieurs situations professionnelles comme la résolution d’un problème, la négociation, la clarification d’une demande, le recrutement, l’entretien professionnel, la consultation d’un groupe, la présentation d’une problématique, la participation d’un groupe à une recherche d’amélioration…

Avec l’approche systémique, disparaît la notion de solution a priori ou de modèle idéal. Les types d’organisation ou les méthodes de management, ne sont en soi ni bons ni mauvais, ce ne sont que des moyens au service d’objectifs et d’enjeux individuels ou collectifs.

Loin de se positionner comme une discipline miracle, elle représente une alternative aux démarches traditionnelles même si elle dérange nos habitudes de pensée, menace nos certitudes et fait réagir les dogmatiques.

Pour conclure, chacune des deux logiques engendre un mode de relation très différent dans le contexte d’une démarche globale de changement ou dans la gestion de situations managériales du quotidien.

Ainsi, la posture systémique donne aux managers une nouvelle façon d’appréhender les situations complexes sans être noyés par la complexité et leur permet de s’assurer que leur bon sens va bien dans le bon sens.

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  Biographie de l’auteur : 

Dominique BERIOT, possède une triple expérience professionnelle. D’abord comme manager ou dirigeant dans cinq entreprises différentes de 2000 à 15000 personnes, puis comme consultant de l’entreprise de conseil qu’il a créée et spécialisée dans la conduite du changement par l’approche systémique. Il contribue à la diffusion de la pensée systémique à travers des conférences et des travaux de recherche. Dominique BERIOT a publié 6 ouvrages dans le domaine du management et, plus spécifiquement sur l’approche systémique du changement, dont les plus récents : – “Guide systémique du manager d’équipe, 40 situations managériales du quotidien“, Eyrolles, 2018. – “Manager par l’approche systémique, s’approprier de nouveaux savoir-faire pour agir dans la complexité”, Eyrolles, 2014. (préface Michel Crozier). – “Du microscope au macroscope, l’approche systémique du changement dans l’entreprise“, (préface de Joël de Rosnay) ESF, 1992. Il a publié de nombreux articles sur plusieurs sites et dans différentes revues spécialisées. Dans le champ de l’ingénierie pédagogique, il a réalisé des films et produit des CD pédagogiques sur le management. Il a également une expérience dans l’enseignement sur les relations sociales dans des Grandes Ecoles prestigieuses (HEC, CESA, ENST, ESCP…). Enfin, de 1987 à 1991, il a été Président du Comité d’Ethique de l’Institut Curie à Paris pour les essais thérapeutiques sur l’homme.

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