I want to get my pitchfork ready...I thought about placing it near my 'Merican flag. Then when I see it juxtapositioned thus I smile... I not expectin' trouble, just gettin' ready... You all keep up the great work and pressure on this Regime!
Early on here, Michael observes "visibility often matters more than substance."
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison qualify that a bit in their 2014 book, "The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism."
They display in detail how our corporate masters and dark money managers quite by plan fund all who would rather we see their conspiracy theories ("conspiracy fictions") rather than have the ruling malicious predations be made visible.
Michael gets this. As he says later on in this by him today, "There is still agency in this system, but it requires a shift in expectation."
Yes, true enough. But whose expectations are going to change so long as testing rules all by its premise all expect as continuous, deity-given, permanent: only the unseen, anonymous testers ask the questions. Everyone else just obeisantly answers one and only one from A)-B)-C)-D).
A Federal agency is repeatedly threatening an American city. In what demented world can this happen?
New Yorkers like the great citizens of Minneapolis aren’t going to stand for it.
Cities are not powerless here. They can respond through courts, negotiations, and political oversight.
I want to get my pitchfork ready...I thought about placing it near my 'Merican flag. Then when I see it juxtapositioned thus I smile... I not expectin' trouble, just gettin' ready... You all keep up the great work and pressure on this Regime!
Early on here, Michael observes "visibility often matters more than substance."
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison qualify that a bit in their 2014 book, "The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism."
They display in detail how our corporate masters and dark money managers quite by plan fund all who would rather we see their conspiracy theories ("conspiracy fictions") rather than have the ruling malicious predations be made visible.
Michael gets this. As he says later on in this by him today, "There is still agency in this system, but it requires a shift in expectation."
Yes, true enough. But whose expectations are going to change so long as testing rules all by its premise all expect as continuous, deity-given, permanent: only the unseen, anonymous testers ask the questions. Everyone else just obeisantly answers one and only one from A)-B)-C)-D).
Bread and circuses in a performative age are classic signs of internal decay and autocracy.
Or, to put it another way, "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." — Joni Mitchell
Spot on.
Happy birthday, Donald J. Trumpstein.