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Following FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio program that features local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates, and the odd surprise guest, begins just after 9 a.m.View earlier podcasts here. at 1550 AM, 94.9 FM, and live on Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube account on WNZF.
Circle of Acoustic Jams The Hammock Community Center, located at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast, has a picnic shelter behind it from 2 to 5 p.m. The event is free. Join other local amateur musicians for a jam session with your acoustic stringed instrument (no amplifiers) and a folding chair. Both vocalists and audiences are welcome. In a jam circle format, musicians are seated in a circle. After calling out a song and a key, each musician takes turns leading the others in playing or singing. The next person in the circle is therefore the next to go. The musicians may alternately perform or improvise a verse and a chorus, depending on the tune. It’s a lot of fun! Those who merely wish to observe or perform typically sit beside their musical partner or on the sidelines. Every month on the fourth Friday, this event takes place.
At 12:15 p.m., the Flagler Democratic Office, located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) in City Marketplace, hosts the Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group run by local Democrats. Come and contribute your voice to national, state, and local politics.
Notably:I’ve reached the summer of 1914 while reading Andr Gide’s journals. Though he may not have realized it at the time, he wrote, “We expect the worst,” on July 28, the formal day the war officially began. He observes what everyone else saw in the immediate wake of 9/11: Despite everything, there is some solace in the fact that specific interests vanish and conflicts disintegrate in the face of this terrible menace; in France, imitation swiftly turns into a sort of rage that drives every individual to heroic self-denial. “We are about to enter a lengthy tunnel full of blood and shadows, and the seasons of fake news (fausses nouvelles”),” he wrote a few days later. He is briefly seized by the desire to defeat Germany swiftly, but he soon realizes that propaganda is destroying French society. As Vernon Parrington remarked of another writer in a different context, Gide expresses his distaste for the mercenary attitude he finds in the new patriotism.It all seems to be similar to how, following 9/11, American society rejected nobility in favor of crude jingoism. Gide observes that the ugliness, filth, and foolishness of popular idiocy have never, without a doubt, been exposed in such a compromising and disgraceful way. However, I found this remark to be as relevant to our current situation in 2025 as it was to his in 1914. The French author Fran ois Maspero’s description of David Rousset’s little book about surviving Dachau is reminiscent of this sentence. Rousset studies the Nazi concentration camp system by characterizing it as an inherent element of society, a product of its ideology, and a crucial component of its economy, rather than as a horrific aberration brought on by the severe effects of the war, as Maspero stated. And now we are.
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Worshiping the monster of the times, I would violate every law, disregard every duty, disregard every bond, and ignore every commitment for which there was no associated penalty. I would accuse myself of disparaging my wealthy neighbors. I would refer to all inoffensive, passive males as hostile. I would steal or hold onto the entrusted funds. Even though it goes against my oath, I do trade on public funds. Take an Oath! Only suitable to bind a handful of diligent Royalists, and chaff for excellent Whigs! I would use the money’s depreciation to construct my new wealth. I would report any man who made any distinction between it and silver, and I would covertly trade 10 for one, protected from any suspicion or detection by my excellent name. I took the fines from the poor militiamen’s hearts and put them in my pocket. I would become obstinate, ruthless, and unfair. I would become wealthy, fas vel nefas. While I stayed at home to trade and rule, I would send others to battle. I’d turned into a modern Whig, a clamorous American, and I offered incense to the deity Arimanes every night.
Guillaume Michel In Vernon Parrington’s Modern Currents in American Thought (1927), Jean de Cr vec ur is quoted.
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