This was a really nice read, very sanity inducing (or as much as anything can be at this point in time). I also found your articulation of prefigurative power incredibly useful. Are there any readings that I could explore about it that you would recommend? Understand how it's defined, identified, leveraged?
Truly my morning mantra has become something along the lines of "I wish I didn’t have to care about any of them." They don't think about me, particularly, so why am I thinking about them? Because their existence is a serious threat to my simply existing. Thanks for the recommendation of Warner's new book, will be adding to my growing list.
Dave-loved the piece-truly.I agree with all you said re:Elon From Mars."a hermetically-sealed, ketamine-soaked information environment!" is some fine writing.Billionaires as a lot leave a lot to be desired. And a good job on my fellow U of C alumni.
Your ode to la Resistance was lovely . Garvin is a bit much and a good read on Dahl. Again- brilliant imagery with your "provocative sounding stupid BS" line.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE baby- oh wait "the People"denotes the majority, not the losers in a legitimate election. So far La Resistance's resistance has been purely performative. Can't wait till BLM and ANTIFA take to the streets and things get hot with the further decimation of the deep seated governmental bureaucracy, especially the IC neocons, as their secrets are released over the next few months.
Yeah, billionaires need to be constrained, not accomodated, as they progress from personal power games to becoming characters in an Ayn Rand novel, playing with governments instead of markets. The SV supervillians are chasing the high of being treated as wizards who conjur magik out of computers that is embedded in our lives, with the side benefit of raining money down on them. They all have "keeping score" money, so power is what matters to them now, power and respect.
This was a really nice read, very sanity inducing (or as much as anything can be at this point in time). I also found your articulation of prefigurative power incredibly useful. Are there any readings that I could explore about it that you would recommend? Understand how it's defined, identified, leveraged?
One of the classics in the field is Bachrach and Baratz, "the Two Faces of Power." https://www.jstor.org/stable/1952796
There's also Steven Lukes, "Power: A Radical View." And a couple others that are escaping me atm because the coffee hasn't kicked in.
Is there a worse job than one that requires talking to Jonathan Turley and remembering Mickey Kaus?
Well yeah! Just imagine a job where you needed to talk *respectfully* to Jonathan Turley...
*Shudder*
Truly my morning mantra has become something along the lines of "I wish I didn’t have to care about any of them." They don't think about me, particularly, so why am I thinking about them? Because their existence is a serious threat to my simply existing. Thanks for the recommendation of Warner's new book, will be adding to my growing list.
Great read!
Dave-loved the piece-truly.I agree with all you said re:Elon From Mars."a hermetically-sealed, ketamine-soaked information environment!" is some fine writing.Billionaires as a lot leave a lot to be desired. And a good job on my fellow U of C alumni.
Your ode to la Resistance was lovely . Garvin is a bit much and a good read on Dahl. Again- brilliant imagery with your "provocative sounding stupid BS" line.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE baby- oh wait "the People"denotes the majority, not the losers in a legitimate election. So far La Resistance's resistance has been purely performative. Can't wait till BLM and ANTIFA take to the streets and things get hot with the further decimation of the deep seated governmental bureaucracy, especially the IC neocons, as their secrets are released over the next few months.
Yeah, billionaires need to be constrained, not accomodated, as they progress from personal power games to becoming characters in an Ayn Rand novel, playing with governments instead of markets. The SV supervillians are chasing the high of being treated as wizards who conjur magik out of computers that is embedded in our lives, with the side benefit of raining money down on them. They all have "keeping score" money, so power is what matters to them now, power and respect.