Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
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by artappraiser on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 2:19am
While Iraq and Afghanistan distracted us, I don't think we've seen a brutal widespread war with millions of deaths since say Congo and South Sudan, ending around 2000-2005 (along with the famous Congolese rape gangs).
The deal with Lenin and Che is a Revolutionary's job is to promote revolution, not to recognize a goal has been met and come home, put on a tie and join the maturing status quo. When they talk about "so many people", you feel they've no idea the actual number in proportion to the whole, that they're actually raving and wailing against the factual of the human condition, that people everywhere will always be hurting and suffering and dying, and that there are sane boundaries between what we can do to soften this predicament and what lies outside our power. The Great Depression happened. World War 2 & the Holocaust happened, as did the gray bought of Communism. They are indelible (I hope) markings of perhaps the worst that humanity will do to itself, yet at the same time some of the best. The trials at the moment are severe but trivial to the 30s-60s. Even population growth is mostly contained - we have answers, we have solutions, even if they need completion, hard work & money & shifts in attitude. We're not fighting our parents' battles. We're in a much more hopeful and knowable space. Even if the US fully collapses, there are enough advanced and stable and enlightened cultures that will keep progress going despite backwards anti-democratic motions of the Chinese government, the Russian government. There is no effective $600 billion a year Soviet army sitting on our border. Even the disturbing Chinese stealth Belt & Road initiative is largely in disarray.
And oddly, Chomsky's warnings about American imperialism seem more accurate now than in the 70's, with a shameless self-deluded corps running the government and controlling much if the power of communication and law-making. But it doesn't seem to lead to a controlled Fascism - just an ugly self-hating and painfully uncomfortable society.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 3:22am
I'd just like to point out that every argument I've had here with everyone, I won. Sorry, no video of me winning. You'll just have to take my word for it.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 2:46am