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Brilliant Thoughts
• The Voice of the Village • 14 – 21 May 2020 MONTECITO JOURNAL 27 Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War
II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in
American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com Brilliant Thoughts
by Ashleigh Brilliant
All Hell W arning: I am (in all likelihood) about to change your life. Not in any big significant way, but in the same slight, but probably permanent, way that mine was changed when, not long ago, I made the discovery which I am going to share with you here.
First, a little background: Somehow, I had managed to live to an advanced age without ever reading “Paradise Lost.” Of course, I knew that John Milton is supposed to be one of the greatest English poets, and that “Paradise Lost” is supposed to be his greatest work. I knew that he was blind when he wrote it, and that he had to dictate it to his three daughters. But exposure many years ago at school to some of his other work had been more than enough for me. Nevertheless, I recently decided to give it a try.
It turns out to be a phenomenally long epic (275 pages in my edition), giving Milton’s version of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. There is no rhyme (it is in blank verse), far too little punctuation, and the entire format is so dense that, if you lose your place, you’re in real trouble.
But one thing encouraged me to keep on wading through this mass of verbiage – the thought that, since it is such a famous work, there must be, buried in it, many expressions which, as with Shakespeare, are so often quoted that they have become part of our language.
You have probably heard about the lady, who, after attending a performance of Hamlet for the first time, complained that it was “just a lot of old quotations strung together.” So, I naturally expected to be able to make some similar observation about “Paradise Lost.”
But I have to report that, in this whole saga, I have found only one passage which the world in general might recognize. But that singular find has impressed me so much that I felt I had to tell you about it.
The one (and possibly only) original piece of “Paradise Lost” which you and I would immediately acknowledge to be familiar in everyday speech is to be found on line 918 of Book IV. It consists of just four one-syllable words:
“ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE”
How do I know that this originated in “Paradise Lost,” and wasn’t said by somebody else maybe centuries earlier? Well, you needn’t take my word for it. After making this stupendous discovery, I of course rushed to consult my online reference works, and soon found the Milton origin confirmed by one and all.
But what seems most remarkable to me is the fact that Milton used those words in a very special way, which has nothing to do with the way they are commonly used today. They are part of one of many lengthy dialogues in the book, this one between Satan and the Angel Gabriel, after Satan has escaped from the nether regions, to which he was supposed to have been confined, and has been caught attempting to sneak into the Garden of Eden. Gabriel wants to know why Satan escaped by himself, rather than at the head of all his infernal followers. He therefore asks:
“But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee came not all Hell broke loose?” (“Wherefore,” here, means “why” – as you know from Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet’s “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means “Why must you have that name [i.e. belong to that family]?”)
So, you see that a funny thing happened to those four words on their way into colloquial speech. Milton was using them in a quite literal sense. His “broke loose” was a descriptive adjective, not the powerful verb we’ve long assumed it to be. If he’d been writing prose rather than poetry, he would probably have said “broken loose” – which of course would have completely spoiled our usage today. Poor Milton would no doubt be aghast at the way we’ve removed his expression from all its context, and bandy it about today.
I will bet whatever you like that hardly anyone who today says, “that’s when all hell broke loose,” realizes that they are quoting Milton. But from now on, you will know – and it’s such an odd piece of information that you may never forget it. So, to that extent (and I hope for better rather than for worse) I will here and now take credit for having changed your life. •MJ A s I write this article, people are asking for a return to “normal.” Is that what we really want?
Is it “normal” that tens of millions of Americans have no access to healthcare? That millions of Americans are homeless? That 11 million children in the U.S. literally do not know where their next meal is coming from?
Is it “normal” that humans are disrupting the climate in a catastrophic manner and that we go about business as usual?
At age 15, climate activist Greta Thunberg said in a TEDx talk, “I think in many ways we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange – especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis.”
Her comment warmed me to the core as I have always felt the same way.
In some way, it is not our fault. Our perceptual systems are mostly set up only to detect change. We are largely blind to what is unchanging in our environment.
The corporate media accentuates this effect on a grand scale. Single tragedies are magnified while gross ongoing injustices receive no coverage.
A few years ago there was a small conference in Santa Barbara where top news editors explained how they cover the news. I pointed out that news coverage is “event driven” rather than driven by what is important. I asked if that could change.
A top New York Times editor chose to answer my question. He said that this question came up at one of their staff meetings. Someone offered this solution: Let’s have a feature once a month called “Still True.” They would allocate space to a problem that is large, but creates no specific events. For example, “Still True That Three Million Americans are Homeless.”
I smiled approvingly. Once a month is not much, but still better than nothing. He smiled back at me. Then snapped back, “I killed it. It was a dumb idea.” He saw the shock on my face and said, “You can’t make people eat broccoli.” Wow. This was as good as it gets. A top New York Times editor thinks it is a dumb idea to cover what is important.
The result? “GoFundMe” campaigns replace good public policy. The leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.? Medical bills. No other country in the world has this. As a child I lived in a civilized country where we could walk to the family doctor and there were never any bills at all.
Do we really want things to return to “normal”? Senator Bernie Sanders first ran for president in 2016 on a 12-point platform of issues that all poll at more than 60% across the political spectrum. Including true universal healthcare. The pundits declared his views as “out of the mainstream.” Yet one debate moderator took the time to look at his policy positions. He said, “You call yourself a socialist. But your positions are more conservative than (Republican) President Eisenhower’s.” Bernie replied, “You got me there!”
How do ideas get to be “normal”? When President Roosevelt proposed putting millions of unemployed Americans to work building needed infrastructure, his idea was vigorously opposed by the corporate powers. When it was seen as a brilliant success, it became so normal that Eisenhower indeed proposed massive public works projects of his own. Notably, the Interstate Highway System. Eisenhower also proposed a universal healthcare system similar to Obamacare.
When Reagan first tried running on a platform of tearing down such government investment in his 1976 presidential campaign, he was considered a fringe candidate. Not at all normal. But he was able to win in 1980 by recruiting a huge untapped part of the population that had never voted before: devout fundamentalist Christians who believed we were living in the End of Times. Are those views normal?
With fundamentalist support, Reagan was able to dismantle decades of accepted public policy. Ever since, it has been considered “normal” for swaths of people to be left to scramble for basic needs. Corporations sponsor candidates who turn around and use government to serve their needs rather than the public interest.
This “normal” situation of legalized bribery is at the root of all our “normal” problems. What got us into the coronavirus crisis? A “normal” system that rewards short-term corporate profits over long-term public investment. How about if we go beyond universal healthcare and demand a public agency to create medicines? Based on medical efficacy and need rather than on the private profits of Big Pharma?
Why don’t we envision and demand a NEW normal? •MJ What is Normal? Robert’s Big Questions
Degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UC Santa Barbara. Career in designing atomic-resolution microscopes. Childhood spent in Europe and the
East of the US. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life and the universe. Duty to be a good citizen of the planet.
by Robert Bernstein
The star fountain in the back garden (photo by Matt Walla)
Steedman became quite the horticulturist and was president of the Santa Barbara Garden Club, winning many prizes in flower shows. Roses and camellias were her favorite. One of her dad’s last projects was to set up a dark room to photograph his wife’s flower arrangements before they went into the house because he hated to have such beauty be so fleeting.
Medora’s mother died in 1963 and before she and her husband could move here her mom’s loyal gardener and horticulturist Joe Acquistapace
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took care of the property. He was here for 50 years and trained Ildo Marra (son of one of the old gardeners). As Medora said, “I always feel that the garden has only been loaned to me and that it really belongs to those who created and nurtured it. I have the joy of getting most of my exercise in it now that I have given up tennis and I have inherited my mother’s tasks in the rose garden.”
Medora said the courtyard with its Spanish tiled pool and black and white pebbled pavement is similar to that of the Patio de la Reja in the Alhambra. I think the Saint Francis statue and the Satyr Bacchus staring at each other among the camellias is someone’s idea of humor. Saint Francis was a rich playboy who imbibed too much before he got religion and became a saint. The large exedra was made out of cardboard first to try it all over the garden choosing the perfect site for the tiled bench. Medora had many white flowers in the blue and white garden in memory of her parents who often enjoyed the garden in the moonlight.
Medora’s father especially liked the medieval look of the fan shaped garden of tree roses. Medora reminisced, “A bench with a view of the ocean and the islands through the south archway is one of my favorite spots in the late afternoon. I have reached an age now when all I collect are sunsets.”
There is a gothic birdhouse/sundial that her father made which says, “Use well thy time/ Fast fly my hours/
The Casa’s orchard (photo by Matt Walla)
Good works live on.” There used to be two white doves, but today there are no tenants. One of the favorite trees that visitors like are the dragon trees which seem to date from the time of the dinosaurs. Originally from the Canary Islands, the sap is blood red and used by the Egyptians for their mummy recipe and perhaps by Stradivarius on his red violin.
There is a whole orchard of citrus and other fruit trees which were helped along by the eight gardeners and Depression-era projects done by jobless men. The drainage of the clay soil was poor and orange trees don’t
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At age 73 Medora wrote, “I wonder if I am realistic in hoping that someone in the family will be able to afford to keep up Casa del Herrero. And I worry that I am neglecting my reading and work in the population and family planning. But then I remember the old Chinese proverb that ends ‘if you want to be happy for life, plant a garden.’”
I think Medora would be pleased with the stewardship of the Casa since it is a protected foundation, dedicated to the preservation of all she held dear with the door open for the public to see and admire what her parents created. The Casa still has relatives on the board who recall what it was like when they would come to visit grandma and grandpa and they tell us anecdotes of those times. When the pandemic is over, the casa will be open for 90-minute docent led tours. Just call 805.565.5653. •MJ
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first responders, muzzled the CDC, fired those who spoke out about the dangers, and dithered, lied and downplayed from the first until now. But I don’t think that’s the politician she means.
She lifts a story from Fox News that an executive with WHO praised Sweden’s careless freedom from lockdown without noting the praise was for effective testing (which we have never had and don’t have yet), not the result — Sweden’s deaths per 100,000 ratio is nearly half again larger than in the U.S., four times greater than in Norway right next door or in Germany, and four times greater than California’s.
How dare California’s government try to protect its people from fevered death and, what’s worse, do a reasonably good job at it? How dare Supervisor Williams “take away [her] privileges,” her “right to live as free people” (and to infect whomever those free people might breathe on)?
There’s a lot to mourn here, admittedly, loss of work, loss of health care, and many deaths, of nurses and doctors, of delivery people, grocery workers, meat plant workers, folks in nursing homes and elder care aides, prisoners and guards, and among all their families. By contrast, Ms Trosky’s loss of shopping joy weighs not half so heavy on the scale.
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MONTECITO JOURNAL30 End the Madness
So let me see if I’ve got this straight – the GOP’s response to the tragic deaths of tens of thousands of Americans and the unprecedented economic carnage caused by this Administration’s failure to promptly heed the warnings and advice of the world’s leading infectious disease experts vis-a-vis the coronavirus pandemic and to take measures that other countries – e.g., South Korea, Germany, New Zealand, etc. – took to contain it and limit loss of life and economic damage is to ignore the warnings and advice of the world’s leading climate scientists visa-vis the threat of climate change and take prompt action to address it?
The full extent of the economic and human tragedy wrought by the Administration’s unconscionable delay and failure of leadership in dealing with COVID-19 won’t be known for some time, but there is no question that huge investments of public funds will be required to ameliorate the damage. We have a choice – we can allow the GOP (in thrall to fossil fuel interests) to ignore the advice of climate scientists and expend vast sums in a futile attempt to preserve a 20th Century economy powered by fossil fuels, exacerbating the damage climate change will cause at the expense of the health and long-term prosperity of the vast majority of Americans, or we can invest in a just transition toward a 21st Century economy powered by clean energy and create millions of good jobs, ameliorating the damage of climate change in the process. I only hope that Joe Biden, Democratic leaders in Congress, and the voices of qualified scientists and responsible media are up to the challenge of articulating this choice, and that American voters end this madness in November.
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Finding God
The article by Ashleigh Brilliant “Dear God” is somewhat off track. First of all, he doesn’t give any good support for his thesis that there is no God. Second, he doesn’t seem to be very happy. No kids or grandkids and a very negative perception of the world. Suggest he convert to Christianity where he would have a much more rewarding and fulfilling life.
Frank McGinity Montecito
News from Rosetta’s Pond
Dialogue overheard on Coast Village Road, from a COVID-19 taxi driver.
“Hey! You rolling up ur window at me?”
“Hey! Who r u? Keeping me away from you?”
“Hey! You ignoring me?”
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Water Woes
Montecito Water District customers recently received in the mail a “Notice Of Public Hearing On Proposed Water Rate Increase”. The proposed rates are in addition to the supposedly temporary Water Supply Emergency (WSE) rate increase enacted during the recent drought. The water usage charge was increased 64% at that time and remains in place to this day.
Using the existing WSE rates as the base, the District is proposing changes. For example, a residential customer using 23 hundred cubic feet per month would see their monthly bill increase by $13.72. Not bad. However if the proposed increase is compared to pre drought rates, the monthly bill increases $93.07. Ouch!
The District states that the rate increase is needed to address several water supply challenges. Possible solutions to these challenges are examined in the “Future Water Demand and Water Supply Options Report 2020 Update” prepared by Dr. Bachman.
The District’s preferred solution is to execute a Water Supply Agreement with the City of Santa Barbara backed by its desalination facility. This is a reliable source of additional water. Unfortunately it is the most expensive, at over $4 million per year with a 50 year contract term. Also it is inflexible because it requires the District to pay for water even during years when it is not needed, which is most years.
For instance, this year the District has over 2,000 acre feet of State Water Project (SWP) water entitlement available for delivery. However the District has elected to not have it delivered. Other Santa Barbara County water agencies have decided not to receive the SWP water. Why? Because sufficient rainwater has been delivered free to the Santa Ynez River watershed reservoirs (Cachuma, Gibraltar, Jameson) to meet all water demands for South Coast water agencies. If the WSA was in effect today the District would be forced to pay over $4 million a year for water it does not need!
In addition, even though an extremely large amount (85%) of District water goes for exterior use, the District continues to resist implementing an effective water conservation program. Financial incentives for customers to reduce exterior water consumption have proven to be effective by water agencies throughout California. Instead the District proposes a WSA which will provide extremely expensive water for exterior use. This water is considered valuable by a small number of large water users that needed to reduce their landscape
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irrigation in the last severe drought. I agree that their needs should be addressed but by using a different, significantly less expensive, solution.
As mentioned in the Bachman report, future water supply reliability could be enhanced by increasing participation in water banks “in Central or Antelope Valley similar to existing Semitropic capacities”. (Semitropic is a groundwater bank in which the District already participates to a limited extent). Also, supplemental water could be purchased “on a long term contract or spot market”. Note: Groundwater banks are effective and economical because the District would pay for the water once and then store it until it is needed. It would then be delivered via the SWP system to the District. This is a significant contrast with the WSA which requires continuous payment regardless of need.
Additional groundwater banking coupled with an environmentally responsible and effective water conservation program would provide a reliable, economical solution to meet future District water supply needs. It would eliminate the need for a rate increase and provide an opportunity to return to rates that existed prior to the WSE surcharge. I anticipate that the District will embrace this solution when pigs learn to fly.
Robert L. Roebuck
MWD customer for 37 years Retired MWD General Manager and City Water Resources Manager •MJ
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NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission Canyon Mind Body & Soul, 2600 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Brigitta T Wissmann, 2600 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 24, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0001038. Published May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2020.
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