“Mother Rachel caring for her children” throughout the generations….”

Your idea had wings… or at least wheels… or it did until I figured out that she was a Mother-in-law, too.

You know what they say…

As far as killing off all the poets, wouldn’t it just be easier to outlaw poignancy, grief, introspection, love….emotion generally?

Since the number of soft males who are possessed by the impulse to annoy others with the versified product of their mental derangement are fewer than the number of those humans who experience grief and love with a certain amount of dignity, declaring open season on the poets would be the more sensible option if it had to come to that. More just, too.

But of course as I stated, my remark was to be construed in a figurative way, kindly almost. And as I am more or less a free speech absolutist, I am resolutely opposed to the idea of an organized or state sponsored harrowing of the poets.

Leave it to the truck drivers to handle informally, I say.

The media is—shocking, I know—behaving irresponsibly.
They are actually misrepresenting the truth—AKA lying—of this trial in hyper-hysterical fashion.

So what happens when the media itself BECOMES the hysterical lynch mob? (And eggs on others to join them….) What happens when the media shrieks “FIRE” in the national theater? What happens when the media exhorts and abets violence? What happens when the media targets a defendant.

Freedom of speech?
(Or “To Kill a Mockingbird”….?)

But I guess some people really must hate “with all one’s might, with all one’s heart and with all one’s soul…”

To be sure, a good, solid distraction from “transitory inflation” would sure be welcome….

Hold on! Here’s one that looks like it has potential:
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-nuclear-unit-germany-reactivates-dark-eagle-hypersonic-missiles

As far as killing off all the poets, wouldn’t it just be easier to outlaw poignancy, grief, introspection, love….emotion generally? (Or maybe just rhyme and/or meter…)

On second thought, there must be some “muscular” poets out there… (King David? Dante? D.H. Lawrence? Pound? Ted Hughes…or even Marcus Aurelius?). I imagine that these, and perhaps several others, might be tolerated…. (To the tune of “Onward Muscular Poets!…)

Curiously, not that I’m an expert, but instead of searching for various Mediterranean (or global) instances of matriarchy/motherhood on which to base the Marian phenomenon, the source may well exist closer to home—echoing the image of “Mother Rachel caring for her children” throughout the generations…. (Though, I could well have gotten the two issues chronologically backward here…where’s Robert Graves when you really need him?)

In any event (and in the spirit of Ishtar), this—timeless—one’s for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUdlaLWSVM

The Divine Procuress is an interesting figure, especially if She has a franchise downtown.

It’s said that the need to get women as far forward as possible in military medicine is that young guys don’t want to cry in front of their comrades.

Did anyone else go to your school? Do we need to round them up as a precautionary measure? 🙂

Nailed it.