If it is the theory employed by Desmet, I don't think the authors got it wrong. It's not an ownership issue. Actually I read perhaps half the book. I'm not trying to have an argument about this. We just disagree about the value of this critique. I like your writing and also, as we may have no further communication, I appreciate your movie lists. They're great and very useful!
Maybe just review their conclusions? Then I think you will see the significance/relevance of their critique as you too are focused on class as well. And thus where Desmet - in the end- may unwittingly(?) have produced a work which is counter-revolutionary?
Right off the bat it gets Desmet wrong, saying its his theory. He makes it clear “mass formation “ theory has been around over 100 years. Of course, you wouldn't know that if you hadn't read his book.
I remember this article when it came out. Don't have the energy to reread it, it’s insanely long. But I don't recognize Desmet's book in their critique.
Thanks for pointing out that it's not the left who are engineering the ongoing assault on humanity, though are plenty of shrieking faux-left and very rich frauds involved in the operation.
Hi, Joe, nice to meet you. You have great points, and I would have been completely behind you before what I call the "strangenesses" that started in 2020, as a former antiwar leftie. Now I'm an antiwar sometimes leftie, sometimes rightie. I guess you think that the only problem we have with government is corporate influence, given your support for Medicare for All, public housing, public schools, etc. But remove the corporate influence, and you will still have an entity (government) upon which you want to depend and which can take away those benefits whenever they feel like it. If not for a corporate master, then maybe just for kicks.
Even the first wish in your list, breaking up the media, takes an act of the most influenced and captured entity, Congress. Forget about voting reform: we must convince absolutely everybody not to vote at all or only to vote for third party underdogs. Then you can push forward with your wishes.
As to the No Wars bullet, let's go all the way back to Washington, who only reiterated what the Constitution says: no foreign entanglements. I'm not sure what you mean by "cooperation," but if that includes alliances, I say no. All we should be doing is trading and otherwise leaving everyone alone.
If it is the theory employed by Desmet, I don't think the authors got it wrong. It's not an ownership issue. Actually I read perhaps half the book. I'm not trying to have an argument about this. We just disagree about the value of this critique. I like your writing and also, as we may have no further communication, I appreciate your movie lists. They're great and very useful!
Maybe just review their conclusions? Then I think you will see the significance/relevance of their critique as you too are focused on class as well. And thus where Desmet - in the end- may unwittingly(?) have produced a work which is counter-revolutionary?
Right off the bat it gets Desmet wrong, saying its his theory. He makes it clear “mass formation “ theory has been around over 100 years. Of course, you wouldn't know that if you hadn't read his book.
Yeah - this was quite good, though I would echo Dave Raver's comment. Also - here is a link
to an important critique of Desmet that I found worthwhile and I think you would too. Thanks for your work!
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/11/investigative-reports/covid-19-mass-formation-or-mass-atrocity/
I remember this article when it came out. Don't have the energy to reread it, it’s insanely long. But I don't recognize Desmet's book in their critique.
Thanks for pointing out that it's not the left who are engineering the ongoing assault on humanity, though are plenty of shrieking faux-left and very rich frauds involved in the operation.
Hi, Joe, nice to meet you. You have great points, and I would have been completely behind you before what I call the "strangenesses" that started in 2020, as a former antiwar leftie. Now I'm an antiwar sometimes leftie, sometimes rightie. I guess you think that the only problem we have with government is corporate influence, given your support for Medicare for All, public housing, public schools, etc. But remove the corporate influence, and you will still have an entity (government) upon which you want to depend and which can take away those benefits whenever they feel like it. If not for a corporate master, then maybe just for kicks.
Even the first wish in your list, breaking up the media, takes an act of the most influenced and captured entity, Congress. Forget about voting reform: we must convince absolutely everybody not to vote at all or only to vote for third party underdogs. Then you can push forward with your wishes.
As to the No Wars bullet, let's go all the way back to Washington, who only reiterated what the Constitution says: no foreign entanglements. I'm not sure what you mean by "cooperation," but if that includes alliances, I say no. All we should be doing is trading and otherwise leaving everyone alone.