It’s a Post being written at 2:30 am, what can I say? Have come to rely on the photos at the beginning of these Posts to impart a certain…frission*

At any rate, the practise of late has been to write these first thing in the morning, against the deadline** which is based on the condition of having to leave the house to earn a living. But tonight this morning, thought I would try to get up earl(ier) and see if, by getting away from the pressure of a deadline, I could produce a Post of more interest. (So far…not so much.)

…damn, thats what I like about writing these Posts…following is a video courtesy of the ‘left field’ portion of my brain.

(Have to account for the timeframe. I did start at 2:30 am but got as far as the Civil War, Andersonville no less(!) and had to fall down on the ground and sleep. While the topic was generating so Post-worthy, I just could not get anything going. Fascinatingly awful subject/period in history…but nothing to hang a Post on. Now if a roger was writing this, he would have been all over that topic…(hey, did you just see something?)…as a matter of fact the Progenitor roger…(there! saw it again, didn’t you see it?) now he would have been the person to consult on the topic of Anderso….( gotcha!! ha!  a topic!!)

Apologies to rogers for the rather odd juxtaposition of images, initial topics and music videos…(damn catchy tune,  Katy); so lets talk about the oh so very rogerian quality of nostalgia (definition: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition.)
Yeah, I can accept that as the definition of the interest that rogers have for the past. However, that is only the ‘external’ description, what we should want to know is what does nostalgia mean to the roger. Now, “I’m just a lil ol country blog writer” (Deforest Kelly; 19xx) so I won’t address the technical end of things but I do know my rogers.
Theys love their old-time, historic periods. And the reason is simple.

It provides them with the perfect herd.

(Refresher: rogers are the social one of the three (of clarks, scotts and rogers, of course!) and as a social being, they live for the group. This grouping is a herd by virtue that it is not structured on a competitive basis, as say a pack of scotts would be; it definitely has a group identity, a clear us versus them as opposed to clarks who are all them versus me.  You know,  a herd).
So, to wrap this up, the reason that rogers yearn for the past is that the herd so comprised is perfect. Once identified and given a face, people of the past never change and are entirely dependent on the roger who has ‘created’ that herd.

…not such a bad topic!  I think I will try something a little different today. Will come back and add to the Post, once at ‘noon’ and once before Studley-time (which is about 5 pm EDT). If there are any rogers reading this and want to contribute to the topic ( the rogerian love of nostalgia), write damn it, write.

Heavvyyy!!

…Sorry, couldn’t wait ’til noon. You know that subtitle to yesterday”s Post? (…we can sing in the glow of… a star that I know of…) compelling rhythm for a song lyric. Was associated in my head with a fifties-greasy song by Dean (‘”hey everyone alcoholism isn’t just ugly, painful, humiliating and family destructive, it’s cool by the standards of a culture that is totally based in a form of elitism that forces its will on the people without even the benefit of making it’s own standard known) Martin.
…come on!! you know the song…lol
Anyway… liked the lyric so much I decided to find a video that I would not be ashamed of promoting…Come on lets hear it for the Gypsy Kings  (who is notgetting visuals from Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado (with Antonio and Salma)

Back.
Kinda not noon, definately out of touch with my own thought processes (that produced the above). But a promise is a promise. So here goes…

Let’s focus on the rogerian quality of nostalgia, as a opposed to nostalgesia, which would be more appropriate being applied to clarks (who wants to volunteer why that is?).
Anyway it has been proposed that rogers love the past because it is made up of dead people and dead people are much better herd members. And also rogers live in a perfect world which is both their strength and their total weaknesses.(Anyone want a shot at that one? ) Hey, come on, you think Post topics grow on the damn trees?

Go ahead be like that. I happened to know why the perfect world and why that is both the strength and the weakness of their types.

So write a Comment, convince me that you know the answer and I will send you a hat (for your damn head). (Sorry, Progenitors and Downsprings not qualified to enter)

* an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
** “Seventeen feet from the inner stockade was the ‘dead-line,’ over which no man could pass and live.” [Lossing, 1868]