BOOMERS ANONYMOUS -- Care or Quit?

[NOTE: This was originally posted in 2018 in English Swill.]    ENGLISH SWILL   ... Wordsmithery at the Bottom of the Barrel by Roy Santonil "DREAMING OF THE LAST AMNESTY " Tuesday, January 23, 2018  You may call me lazy. You would be wrong, and you wouldn't be alone. I know too many people who mistake my efficiency for laziness .  Nowadays, I don't care what you think , as long as you didn't SNEAK into my country against the law.  This is not xenophobia.   This is self-defense in the face of your lawless aggression, you jerks. From American Greatness , I've condensed a written piece by Victor Davis Hanson entitled "Mythologies of Illegal Immigration."    Professor Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was Professor of Classics at Fresno State University, and is currently the Martin and Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University Ho...

So I did it. Here's the full cover version of the song, with both parts. [ These Days ] includes me trying to sing, as well as the lyrics Also, the YouTube channel will be under a pseudonym >>> Clarence Quemuel -- long story. Don't be cruel.   YouTube is hassling me about copyrights and whatnot. We'll see how long this lasts.  © 2025 Roy B. Santonill

OPENING SCENE: A patient is lying unconscious in a hospital ICU. The camera pans down to follow the plastic tubing from his catheter, flowing and bubbling bodiliy fluids into a plastic tank. DR.HOUSE: "The drug addict . . . is peeing blood." CUT SCENE: A med school class where Dr. House is lecturing. He looks at a handful of yellow crayons, chooses one and begins coloring in a coloring book. DR.HOUSE: "How do they teach you to tell someone that they're dying?" (Blank looks from students wearing white coats.)   DR.HOUSE: "It's kinda like teaching architects how to explain why their building fell down." (Continues coloring book) "Do you role play at stuff?" STUDENT: "Yeah. One of us gives the bad news, and one of us gets the bad news." DR.HOUSE: "What do you have to do to get an A in - You're Dying 101? Do they grade you on gentleness and supportiveness? Is there a scale for measuring compassion?" (Changes crayons) ...

Start here . Some of us boomers who studied Psychology should easily recall a towering figure from this discipline, a German academic named Carl Gustav Jung. I always thought Jung's work was best understood in the context of his older contemporary, Sigmund Freud.  Where the more celebrated Freud is recognized as the foundational thinker in the area of psychoanalysis, Jung's legacy is somewhat broader, and in my opinion, more far-reaching than Freud's in that it has had substantial impact on other fields besides psychiatry, such as anthropology, archaeology, literature, and my major field of study, philosophy. This is a MANDALA. It's been six months since I've shared this internet space with -- well, nobody in particular and everybody in general -- and you -- out there in the inter-webs.  There's one question a writer should always be able to answer ... who is your audience? Be patient. I'll get to "Mandela and the Ugly American in a second."  Just ...