I said LOVE, not HATE

I SAID LOVE, NOT HATE
© 5/21/20 – 05/31/20 ARC

Many wondering if virus divinely sent:
Old Testament 10 plagues comes to mind.
Prayers/distancing/masks not halting pestilence:
no country immune from being undermined.

100,000 deaths plus still rising exponentially:
surpassed Americans who died Viet Nam war.
Indiscriminate dying - young, old, rich, poor:
USA president condemning espirit de corps.

What’s the Nooesphere universe supposed to do:
overpopulation, deterioration of earth’s health.
Money, things, power, wars, dominate world order:
human decency/respect overruled by primacy wealth.

After inflictions, pharaoh saw reason:
but alas, soon after, intelligence defeated.
Evil is Machiavellian when overruled by right:
Divine rose up until Israelites mission completed.

Prejudice towards minorities America’s foundation:
pure/righteous words opposite of actions.
WhiteAngloSaxonProtestantMales-Manifest Destiny:
constitutional ideal equaled divine abstraction.

Two hundred plus years without walking talk:
Women, Indians, Blacks, Asians still not equal.
WASP president imitates dictatorship regime:
mayhem/rioting/disorder/violence inevitable sequel.

Highest Religious Beliefs advocate divine axiom:
LOVE is entelechial renaisant force of universe.
Hate/evil is entropic route to annihilation:
We are the World is rhythm of rhyme/verse.
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Featured snippet from the web
Each time, Pharaoh promises to free the Israelites, but reverses his decision when theplague is lifted — until the last one. The plagues are: water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children.Apr 18, 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt
http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/inside/goldhaggadahstories/escapeegypt/escapeegypt.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=u-fTXp2QMe_B0PEP64q8iAM&q=We+are+the+one+lyrics&oq=We+are+the+one+lyrics&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzICCAAyAggAMgIIADIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeOgUIABCDAToECAAQCjoICAAQFhAKEB5QswFYiR9g9SBoAHAAeACAAZUBiAGcDpIBBDE4LjOYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjd2eXVzt7pAhXvIDQIHWsFDzEQ4dUDCAk&uact=5
We Are the World U.S.A. for Africa
There comes a time
When we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
Oh, and it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
We can't go on
Pretending day-by-day
That someone, somewhere soon make a change
We're all a part of God's great big family
And the truth, you know, love is all we need
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me
Oh, send them your heart
So they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stones to bread
And so we all must lend a helping hand….
We are the world
We are the…

HEROES

HEROES
ARC © 5/28/20

David Kaczynski is luminary hero:
reported suspicion of Unabomber being brother.
Refused fighting for Hitler’s genocide war:
Franz Jagerstatter of A Hidden Life is another:

It takes courage to turn from status quo:
regret can also be motivating factor.
Ben Franklin disdained inoculation until son died:
only a child in Emperor’s New Clothes had valor.

Psychologically it is hard to shift mindset:
analogous to rooting for home team.
Energy, passion, rocket towards one direction:
only horrific fowl would cause shame to dream.

Lance Armstrong lost world admiration:
whistleblower exposed cheating and lies.
Dissatisfaction by sports fans world magnified:
countless fooled who thought they were wise.

Current power figure echoes McCarthyism:
Tumbo, Lear type heroes are standing tall.
I pray those deceived by evil will renounce:
put on whole armor like divine shawl.###


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kaczynski

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hidden_Life_(2019_film)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2653186/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fairy_Tales_and_Other_Stories_(Andersen,_Craigie)/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-twitter-dead-democrat-cowboys-155754484.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lear

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+46%3A3-4&version=NIV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+6%3A10-18&version=NIV

Dear God...23 May 2020

Dear God, it’s me early Saturday, 5/23/20, just back from prayer park walk.
Instead of the constant formal prayers, I was listening for divine inspiration.
I am concerned about kith and kin working, patronizing establishments and going to public venues during this pandemic. Many are even celebrating freedom from masks. Recently I saw Facebook posting kudos for restaurant servers who were without.
Truly, I get it. They are eager to attack terrorist type flue that is revenging country. They are simply claiming their right. I am not sure kith and kin understand a `right’ can be null and void for example if you yell FIRE in a crowded theater. A right does not mean freedom to endanger another.
When Boston Marathon terrorists attacked, city went on lockdown in order to catch perpetrators. This flue is like a sharpshooter, indiscriminately attacking without prejudice: men/women/children/rich/poor/old/young/gay/straight- all colors/ethnicity. I am one of the most vulnerable at age 79 with pulmonary disability due to stabbing resulting in severe face/throat lacerating wounds.
One protective law after another reinforces fortification from not driving inebriated to wearing seat belts. Employers put up signs in their restrooms that employees must wash their hands before returning to duty.
Our `world’ is in a state of karma: scientists ignored regarding climate change, religions invalidating primacy of conscience, populations exploding that contribute to inhumane conditions for children and horrific poverty.
I am in agony over kith and kin that defend leaders that role model money as higher power juxtaposed with misogynist disrespect, arrogance, and machismo.
Have we not yet spiritually evolved to honor `love/respect’ as the highest force versus survival of `dog eat dog’ mentality.
I am on Facebook for over a decade and recently made my very first comment. Alas, I clicked the wrong emoji resulting in accelerated hesitation to post thoughts. To make it worse, following was listed as written by Ron Howard whom I admire. Instead of checking with SNOPES as I normally do, I clicked for public display. I do not know the writer, but it is illuminating…worth sharing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater

What does a dog eat dog world mean?
It's a dog-eat-dog world– and other animal idioms. ... Alright, let’s begin with “dog-eat-dog”. This expression refers to a place or situation that is highly competitive. In a dog-eat-dog world, people will do whatever it takes to be successful, even if that mean shaming others. Jun 12, 2013

It's a dog-eat-dog world- and other animal idioms - Voxy

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ron-howard-i-am-liberal-essay/

Lori Gallagher Witt
https://gallagherwitt.tumblr.com/post/169422719191/an-open-letter-to-friends-and-family-who-arewere
http://www.cedarvalleychronicles.com/cedar-valley-chronicles/scott-posts/2018/01/29/sunday-essay-9-what-i-believe-by-lori-gallagher-witt
Sunday Essay #9: What I believe, by Lori Gallagher Witt
• Posted on Jan 29, 2018
Sunday Essay #9 Published Monday, 1-29-18

For a good while, I’ve been searching for a piece of writing that puts together what I believe as a longtime liberal/progressive. Happily for me, a friend of a friend posted this set of beliefs on Facebook by LORI GALLAGHER WITT, a freelance writer from Washington state who lives in Spain. Ms. Witt seems to have captured exactly how I think and feel about most major issues—and articulates them with equanimity and thoughtfulness.
So, from Lori Gallagher Witt:
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“1. I believe a country should take care of its weakest members. A country cannot call itself civilized when its children, disabled, sick, and elderly are neglected. Period.
2. I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Somehow that's interpreted as "I believe Obamacare is the end-all, be-all." This is not the case. I'm fully aware that the ACA has problems, that a national healthcare system would require everyone to chip in, and that it's impossible to create one that is devoid of flaws, but I have yet to hear an argument against it that makes "let people die because they can't afford healthcare" a better alternative. I believe healthcare should be far cheaper than it is, and that everyone should have access to it. And no, I'm not opposed to paying higher taxes in the name of making that happen.
3. I believe education should be affordable and accessible to everyone. It doesn't necessarily have to be free (though it works in other countries so I'm mystified as to why it can't work in the US), but at the end of the day, there is no excuse for students graduating college saddled with five- or six-figure debt.
4. I don't believe your money should be taken from you and given to people who don't want to work. I have literally never encountered anyone who believes this. Ever. I just have a massive moral problem with a society where a handful of people can possess the majority of the wealth while there are people literally starving to death, freezing to death, or dying because they can't afford to go to the doctor. Fair wages, lower housing costs, universal healthcare, affordable education, and the wealthy actually paying their share would go a long way toward alleviating this. Somehow believing that makes me a communist.
5. I don't throw around "I'm willing to pay higher taxes" lightly. I'm retired and on a fixed income, but I still pay taxes. If I'm suggesting something that involves paying more, well, it's because I'm fine with paying my share as long as it's actually going to something besides lining corporate pockets or bombing other countries while Americans die without healthcare.
6. I believe companies should be required to pay their employees a decent, livable wage. Somehow this is always interpreted as me wanting burger flippers to be able to afford a penthouse apartment and a Mercedes. What it actually means is that no one should have to work three full-time jobs just to keep their head above water. Restaurant servers should not have to rely on tips, multibillion dollar companies should not have employees on food stamps, workers shouldn't have to work themselves into the ground just to barely make ends meet, and minimum wage should be enough for someone to work 40 hours and live.
7. I am not anti-Christian. I have no desire to stop Christians from being Christians, to close churches, to ban the Bible, to forbid prayer in school, etc. (BTW, prayer in school is NOT illegal; *compulsory* prayer in school is - and should be - illegal). All I ask is that Christians recognize *my* right to live according to *my* beliefs. When I get pissed off that a politician is trying to legislate Scripture into law, I'm not "offended by Christianity" -- I'm offended that you're trying to force me to live by your religion's rules. You know how you get really upset at the thought of Muslims imposing Sharia law on you? That's how I feel about Christians trying to impose biblical law on me. Be a Christian. Do your thing. Just don't force it on me or mine.
8. I don't believe LGBT people should have more rights than you. I just believe they should have the *same* rights as you.
9. I don't believe illegal immigrants should come to America and have the world at their feet, especially since THIS ISN'T WHAT THEY DO (spoiler: undocumented immigrants are ineligible for all those programs they're supposed to be abusing, and if they're "stealing" your job it's because your employer is hiring illegally). I'm not opposed to deporting people who are here illegally, but I believe there are far more humane ways to handle undocumented immigration than our current practices (i.e., detaining children, splitting up families, ending DACA, etc).
10. I don't believe the government should regulate everything, but since greed is such a driving force in our country, we NEED regulations to prevent cut corners, environmental destruction, tainted food/water, unsafe materials in consumable goods or medical equipment, etc. It's not that I want the government's hands in everything -- I just don't trust people trying to make money to ensure that their products/practices/etc. are actually SAFE. Is the government devoid of shadiness? Of course not. But with those regulations in place, consumers have recourse if they're harmed and companies are liable for medical bills, environmental cleanup, etc. Just kind of seems like common sense when the alternative to government regulation is letting companies bring their bottom line into the equation.
11. I believe our current administration is fascist. Not because I dislike them or because I can’t get over an election, but because I've spent too many years reading and learning about the Third Reich to miss the similarities. Not because any administration I dislike must be Nazis, but because things are actually mirroring authoritarian and fascist regimes of the past.
12. I believe the systemic racism and misogyny in our society is much worse than many people think, and desperately needs to be addressed. Which means those with privilege -- white, straight, male, economic, etc. -- need to start listening, even if you don't like what you're hearing, so we can start dismantling everything that's causing people to be marginalized.
13. I am not interested in coming after your blessed guns, nor is anyone serving in government. What I am interested in is sensible policies, including background checks, that just MIGHT save one person’s, perhaps a toddler’s, life by the hand of someone who should not have a gun. (Got another opinion? Put it on your page, not mine).
14. I believe in so-called political correctness. I prefer to think it’s social politeness. If call you Chuck and you say you prefer to be called Charles I’ll call you Charles. It’s the polite thing to do. Not because everyone is a delicate snowflake, but because as Maya Angelou put it, when we know better, we do better. When someone tells you that a term or phrase is more accurate/less hurtful than the one you're using, you now know better. So why not do better? How does it hurt you to NOT hurt another person?
15. I believe in funding sustainable energy, including offering education to people currently working in coal or oil so they can change jobs. There are too many sustainable options available for us to continue with coal and oil. Sorry, billionaires. Maybe try investing in something else.
16. I believe that women should not be treated as a separate class of human. They should be paid the same as men who do the same work, should have the same rights as men and should be free from abuse. Why on earth shouldn’t they be?
I think that about covers it. Bottom line is that I'm a liberal because I think we should take care of each other. That doesn't mean you should work 80 hours a week so your lazy neighbor can get all your money. It just means I don't believe there is any scenario in which preventable suffering is an acceptable outcome as long as money is saved.”
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KARMA

KARMA
© 4/22/20 ARC

We objected to paying low skilled labor minimum wage:
now PANDEMIC – they NOW helping us survive.
Delivery, Food Drive-Up Venders, Store Stockers:
earning less than bare minimum to keep us alive.

We validate health personnel:
but not medical need for one/all.
They are in the front lines risking life:
forced to block infringers by standing tall.*

We complained about hijab covering face:
now mandatory to don protective mask veil.
Genesis states first gift by Divine was CHOICE:
yet, conservatives claim `they’ keeper of grail.

Overpopulation has threatened earth capacity:
Covid-19 weaning unborn, young, adult, old.
Birth control, homosexual validation righteous creed:
if we were all blind, then we would validate human fold.

Climate Crisis scientifically forewarned for centuries:
One-Per-Centers vigorously deny to safeguard wealth income.
Environmentalists efforts thwarted by rich and powerful:
PANDEMIC forcing standstill movement – clean air outcome.

**President exemplifying PETER PRINCIPLE:
He rose to level of incompetence shaming USA.
***Irish Times lamented Americas’ prestige loss:
emulated nation is now pitied for spiritual decay.

Technology touted ardor and exponential growth:
cell phone obsession social/family/work environs.
Inter/intra relationships relegated to back burner:
epidemic seclusion forcing attention to alarm sirens.

Divine human aspirations beckon higher law:
love/empathy/respect foundation of humanity.
Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin/Manson… opposite:
not rational – evil – examples of unsanity.

****When the World Breaks movie is apropos now:
depicts creativity/survival during Great Depression.
It has striking parallels to current times:

we are writing history now as to future progression.

We love Asian countries - cheap labor/low tax rates:
corporate profits highest goal over USA labor pool.
Of course though quick to blame over virus birth:
government leadership cannot admit to being fool.

Helmets/Seat Belts mandated for saving lives:
Social Distancing of six feet is safety perimeter.
Mob with guns storm government institution:
Open up – COVAD-19 perpetuate as eliminator.

The ones who cry loudest to deny women choice:
exclaim no business close - OK to risk fellow kin.
Their work livelihood takes precedence:
over front line - only taking unborn is sin.

A Renaissance Creed ala New Deal is needed:
`we the people’ need to learn lessons from past.
Life/Liberty/Equality/Pursuit of Happiness for all:
inspired by divine is infallible truth that will last.###
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-coronavirus-protests-are-a-juxtaposition-of-life-and-death/2020/04/21/6884a27a-8403-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html
Len Long
• 20 hrs •

The whole World should be praying this right now …
I got all choked up, as I prayed it.
Let’s bow our heads and pray:
Eternal Father, You made the whole World stop spinning for awhile.
You silenced the noise that we all have created.
You made us bend our knees again and ask for a Miracle.
You closed Your Churches so we will realize how dark our World is without You in it.
You humbled the proud and powerful.
The economy is crashing, businesses are closing.
We were very proud, we thought that everything
we have, everything we possess, was the result of
our hard work.
We have forgotten that it was always Your grace and mercy that made us who we are.
We’re running in circles looking for some cure to this disease, when in fact we need to humble ourselves and ask You for guidance and wisdom.
We’ve been living our lives like we will be here on Earth forever, like there’s no Heaven.
Maybe these trials are Your mercy in disguise.
Maybe this virus is actually Your way of purifying us, &
cleansing our soul, bringing us back to YOU.
Today as these words travel the internet, may all who see them join their hearts and hands together in prayer! Asking for forgiveness & asking for healing & protection from this virus…GOD just wipe it from the Earth!
Father You have been patiently waiting for us. We’re so sorry for ignoring Your voice… and in our selfish ways, we’ve sometimes forgotten that YOU are GOD!
You only need to say the words and our souls shall all be healed. We ask these things in Jesus name!...Amen
Prayer for all.
Amen 🙏
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

*** 4/29 authenticated by SNOPES
THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S., NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT
Irish Times, 4.25.20 Fintan O’Toole
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.
However bad things are for most other rich democracies, it is hard not to feel sorry for Americans. Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful.
Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode? The US went into the coronavirus crisis with immense advantages: precious weeks of warning about what was coming, the world’s best concentration of medical and scientific expertise, effectively limitless financial resources, a military complex with stunning logistical capacity and most of the world’s leading technology corporations. Yet it managed to make itself the global epicentre of the pandemic.
As the American writer George Packer puts it in the current edition of the Atlantic, “The United States reacted ... like Pakistan or Belarus – like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”
It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite another to watch vast power being squandered in real time – wilfully, malevolently, vindictively. It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence.
The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.
If the plague is a test, its ruling political nexus ensured that the US would fail it at a terrible cost in human lives. In the process, the idea of the US as the world’s leading nation – an idea that has shaped the past century – has all but evaporated.
Other than the Trump impersonator Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, who is now looking to the US as the exemplar of anything other than what not to do? How many people in Düsseldorf or Dublin are wishing they lived in Detroit or Dallas?
It is hard to remember now but, even in 2017, when Trump took office, the conventional wisdom in the US was that the Republican Party and the broader framework of US political institutions would prevent him from doing too much damage. This was always a delusion, but the pandemic has exposed it in the most savage ways.

Abject surrender
What used to be called mainstream conservatism has not absorbed Trump – he has absorbed it. Almost the entire right-wing half of American politics has surrendered abjectly to him. It has sacrificed on the altar of wanton stupidity the most basic ideas of responsibility, care and even safety.

Thus, even at the very end of March, 15 Republican governors had failed to order people to stay at home or to close non-essential businesses. In Alabama, for example, it was not until April 3rd that governor Kay Ivey finally issued a stay-at-home order.

In Florida, the state with the highest concentration of elderly people with underlying conditions, governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump mini-me, kept the beach resorts open to students travelling from all over the US for spring break parties. Even on April 1st, when he issued restrictions, DeSantis exempted religious services and “recreational activities”.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp, when he finally issued a stay-at-home order on April 1st, explained: “We didn’t know that [the virus can be spread by people without symptoms] until the last 24 hours.”
This is not mere ignorance – it is deliberate and homicidal stupidity. There is, as the demonstrations this week in US cities have shown, plenty of political mileage in denying the reality of the pandemic. It is fuelled by Fox News and far-right internet sites, and it reaps for these politicians millions of dollars in donations, mostly (in an ugly irony) from older people who are most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
It draws on a concoction of conspiracy theories, hatred of science, paranoia about the “deep state” and religious providentialism (God will protect the good folks) that is now very deeply infused in the mindset of the American right.
Trump embodies and enacts this mindset, but he did not invent it. The US response to the coronavirus crisis has been paralysed by a contradiction that the Republicans have inserted into the heart of US democracy. On the one hand, they want to control all the levers of governmental power. On the other they have created a popular base by playing on the notion that government is innately evil and must not be trusted.

The contradiction was made manifest in two of Trump’s statements on the pandemic: on the one hand that he has “total authority”, and on the other that “I don’t take responsibility at all”. Caught between authoritarian and anarchic impulses, he is incapable of coherence.
Fertile ground
but this is not just Donald Trump. The crisis has shown definitively that Trump’s presidency is not an aberration. It has grown on soil long prepared to receive it. The monstrous blossoming of misrule has structure and purpose and strategy behind it.

There are very powerful interests who demand “freedom” in order to do as they like with the environment, society and the economy. They have infused a very large part of American culture with the belief that “freedom” is literally more important than life. My freedom to own assault weapons trumps your right not to get shot at school. Now, my freedom to go to the barber (“I Need a Haircut” read one banner this week in St Paul, Minnesota) trumps your need to avoid infection.
Usually when this kind of outlandish idiocy is displaying itself, there is the comforting thought that, if things were really serious, it would all stop. People would sober up. Instead, a large part of the US has hit the bottle even harder.
And the president, his party and their media allies keep supplying the drinks. There has been no moment of truth, no shock of realisation that the antics have to end. No one of any substance on the US right has stepped in to say: get a grip, people are dying here.
That is the mark of how deep the trouble is for the US – it is not just that Trump has treated the crisis merely as a way to feed tribal hatreds but that this behaviour has become normalised. When the freak show is live on TV every evening, and the star is boasting about his ratings, it is not really a freak show any more. For a very large and solid bloc of Americans, it is reality.

And this will get worse before it gets better. Trump has at least eight more months in power. In his inaugural address in 2017, he evoked “American carnage” and promised to make it stop. But now that the real carnage has arrived, he is revelling in it. He is in his element.
As things get worse, he will pump more hatred and falsehood, more death-wish defiance of reason and decency, into the groundwater. If a new administration succeeds him in 2021, it will have to clean up the toxic dump he leaves behind. If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the lifeblood of American politics.

Either way, it will be a long time before the rest of the world can imagine America being great again.

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****When the World Breaks (2010) - IMDb
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When the World Breaks" is a film about creativity and survival during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with striking parallels to current times.
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