Another beautifully concise piece. Sharp, short and to the point. The metaphor is spot on!
I wrote something along those lines not long ago (not so well written but much like it in content. I got some stick and...a lot of silence for my pains. People are such cowards. Even of they agree with what you're (and I was) saying they won't dare say so out loud.
I feel like I've sort of "come home", finding your site. It's not only what it's said here but some of the link that emerge from here, too. I though true Anarchy was dead or totally distorted and perverted. Not so. It's still alive, well and living (for now) on the ether. May we see it take flesh, sooner rather than later. (And even then it might be too late -but it's the though wot counts, as we say in my neck of the woods)
In my point of view, one shouldn't take any side, but try to protect himself and his loved ones from all the barbaric war, if one is caught in the middle. If not, one should not engage in toxic propaganda, or acts or insults, from either side, but to engage in or facilitate dialogue. Peace is always possible, it is the only real solution. Negociations (serious ones) have to bring a cease-fire, and therefore spare some lives that otherwise would be destroyed aimlesly.
It is a strange world when the "good guys", the ones fighting a war for peace (!?) surround the world with military bases (around 5,000 US bases, with about 600 overseas): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases, not to mention missile installations, black ops and general espionage bastardry.
Pointing out the Orwellian nature of language possibly doesn't change a lot of minds, especially those of the intellectuals who Feyerabend excociates, but it nevertheless needs to be said. And said again and again and again. Because this propaganda machine self-perpetuates, and the only way it can be stopped is by people stopping it, or by it destroying itself.
I hope we manage the form, but suspect it will be the latter, which in turn, will have massive "collateral damage" (ugh, all of these euphemisms that have infected language...)
Judging by how many people who questioned the covid narrative have now fallen for the new red scare, it's obvious that their deepest convictions about the west and its mission of progress were not challenged, rather they saw the pandemic and its responses as an impediment to said mission. They will still fight for their quasi religious belief and cannot form a more nuanced macro view of the events and history. Only a very small % of us are operating outside the lens (the matrix if you will). It is embarrassing to see people equate the western response to Russia's push back as a 'global response'. I'd bet most of the rest of the world is applauding Russia for finally standing up to their mutual bully.
Another beautifully concise piece. Sharp, short and to the point. The metaphor is spot on!
I wrote something along those lines not long ago (not so well written but much like it in content. I got some stick and...a lot of silence for my pains. People are such cowards. Even of they agree with what you're (and I was) saying they won't dare say so out loud.
I feel like I've sort of "come home", finding your site. It's not only what it's said here but some of the link that emerge from here, too. I though true Anarchy was dead or totally distorted and perverted. Not so. It's still alive, well and living (for now) on the ether. May we see it take flesh, sooner rather than later. (And even then it might be too late -but it's the though wot counts, as we say in my neck of the woods)
Keep them coming compadre!
In my point of view, one shouldn't take any side, but try to protect himself and his loved ones from all the barbaric war, if one is caught in the middle. If not, one should not engage in toxic propaganda, or acts or insults, from either side, but to engage in or facilitate dialogue. Peace is always possible, it is the only real solution. Negociations (serious ones) have to bring a cease-fire, and therefore spare some lives that otherwise would be destroyed aimlesly.
What is "democracy"? Where is it to be found?
Indeed...wonderful writing as always.
It is a strange world when the "good guys", the ones fighting a war for peace (!?) surround the world with military bases (around 5,000 US bases, with about 600 overseas): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases, not to mention missile installations, black ops and general espionage bastardry.
Pointing out the Orwellian nature of language possibly doesn't change a lot of minds, especially those of the intellectuals who Feyerabend excociates, but it nevertheless needs to be said. And said again and again and again. Because this propaganda machine self-perpetuates, and the only way it can be stopped is by people stopping it, or by it destroying itself.
I hope we manage the form, but suspect it will be the latter, which in turn, will have massive "collateral damage" (ugh, all of these euphemisms that have infected language...)
And this from Jim Kavanagh https://thepolemicist.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-ukraine-and-the-war
Judging by how many people who questioned the covid narrative have now fallen for the new red scare, it's obvious that their deepest convictions about the west and its mission of progress were not challenged, rather they saw the pandemic and its responses as an impediment to said mission. They will still fight for their quasi religious belief and cannot form a more nuanced macro view of the events and history. Only a very small % of us are operating outside the lens (the matrix if you will). It is embarrassing to see people equate the western response to Russia's push back as a 'global response'. I'd bet most of the rest of the world is applauding Russia for finally standing up to their mutual bully.