ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE (original) (raw)
My Lecture at Charles University, Prague (November 1)
It was wonderful to do this lecture, you will find a lot in in and in the Q&A.
Bandy Lee on the Election: This Is Very Good to Watch
Listen up GOOD
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| The Devil as Pop Star: My Dad's Favorite Character in His Favorite Film |
Listen up good, said the son of a very handsome and compelling psychopath who was in movies and hypnotized his kids: THE DEMOCRATS AND KAMALA did NOTHING wrong.
Listen up. Stop the self attack. Stop it. This is narcissistic self attack based on, the abusive father is harder to attack than oneself. Trust me. My dad was a handsome compelling psychopath and was in movies and in a massive crime syndicate. (The Kray Twins.)
Bernie--shut the eff up. No one screwed up by not talking to class (instead of gender and race) enough. You tried that already. The Communists tried it already in 1933. Guess what happened. It's BECAUSE of this very fact--that you don't see that race and gender are FOUNDATIONAL--that you and others screw up against this stuff.
Listen, like my dad his followers got slightly abused (or a lot) as by a pick up artists and the horrible thing is, because of patriarchy and white supremacy and punching down, they LIKED it. Sadism.
So don't do it. DON'T. Liam, don't. It's masochistic self-loathing which is what got us INTO this jam. What always does.
If my dad had been rich and had a TV show HE would now be the most successful dictator ever. He's the most successful ever, now, isn't he?
Kamala found the RIGHT chemicals. She DID propaganda. It WAS effective. Dancing, joy, humor, smile, Tim Walz's truck.
But by then, WWF media with its ableist fetish (hence Biden is a loser) had messed us up. And America is fascist-ready (Adorno). And the Civil War. And we were already a concentration camp (slavery).
So DO NOT for one frickin SECOND do this attack thing to yourself and other people. Stop it. STOP IT.
It is on occasions like these that I remember why Ripley is my favorite, as she is Kamala's.
My friend whose mom was a terrible and terrifying NPD was crying on my phone on the night saying she must be stupid and naive. This is what this does.
He's a gigantic MADMAN with a tv show and lots and lots of money.
Hey, stop it--I saw you about to chew your own arm off there.
Fun fact: Bernie was the first person to yell "All lives matter!" -- a stupid mistake that was instinctive given his prejudice that class underpins race and gender (hint from theory class: it's the other way around, jerk). This was the slogan the right used to hurt us, shortly after. But it was BERNIE who yelled it first. How freaking dare you, one day after she loses to that monster.
MLK Talks Forgiveness
I forgave my father two years ago. It was a sensation, forgiveness. A totally strange, totally wonderful, totally recognizable sensation, despite my never having felt it before. It's not just a formal act. It has a feel to it.
I found this in my mail today.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. considers the power of love that Jesus revealed at his death:
Few words in the New Testament more clearly and solemnly express the magnanimity of Jesus’ spirit than that sublime utterance from the cross, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” [Luke 23:34]. This is love at its best.…
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of revenge. [Humanity] has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: “Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, [people] continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with [forceful] love.
What a magnificent lesson! Generations will rise and fall; [people] will continue to worship the god of revenge and bow before the altar of retaliation; but ever and again this noble lesson of Calvary will be a nagging reminder that only goodness can drive out evil and only love can conquer hate.
Two Fascist Rallies at the Same Place (Madison Square Garden) at Different Times
Rallies at Madison Square Garden by Timothy Snyder
Quotations from October 27th, 2024, and February 20th, 1939
Archaeology from the Future-Past
A Few Weeks from Now
Hey, tech bros:
Make sure to carry plenty of cash. That is, if the cash machine will still let you get any out.
You go to the gas station, but you can't fill up because the automated system in the station tells the manager you're not MAGA enough. So you have to bribe him, let's say double the cost of the gas you need.
You want to go to that AI conference in Singapore, but the conveyor is pissed because you didn't bribe *him enough last time, so he reckons, but you don't find out until you get to the airport and you're on a no fly list. So you have to bribe DHS a LOT, and the people at the gate, and eventually the convenor of the conference. In fact you have to kiss his ass so bad you spend two more days in Singapore wining and dining him just to be able to get out of there.
And that's your weekend.
Oh, also get ready to boil all your tap water, and overcook all meats and vegetables.
Be sure to have a generator.
Can't Wait to See You in Chicago
If you're anywhere near, please come to the Seminary Co-Op, the best bookstore in the whole of the USA, for an hour of talk between me and Liam Heneghan, biologist and novelist and philosopher.
It's at 6pm this Friday (October 25).
At Kent State
Frank Ryan, one of the professors in the wonderful philosophy department at Kent State, showed me and Treena on a pilgrimage to the site of the Kent State Massacre. He was just starting out himself at the University of Colorado at Boulder at the time. Frank's telling of the story was plangent and detailed and loving and suffused with passion and anger and grief.
I'll try to say more about it here when I can. I am still absorbing the first shock of it. One of the biggest reasons to visit Kent State was to make this pilgrimage.
But for now I'll say that bringing this event to consciousness and making it a part of the university's life, creating the visitor center with its incredible exhibit and video (and audio) footage, the research library devoted to studying it, is nothing but good. Relating to grief is nothing but good. It doesn't feel that way, sometimes, but it's true.
For a very long time Kent State tried to ignore what had happened. But this only resulted in further pain.