The horizon is not so far as we can see, but as far as we can imagine
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I found a list of internet-published articles by Bob Black. How did I find it? I remembered a title from long ago . . . Constitutionalism: the White Man's Ghost Dance . . . and looked it up. That lead me to The Anarchist Library, which is a huge bunch of anarchism-related articles. I saw that it could be sorted by "author" and thereby found Bob Black's bunch of articles. Here is that link.…
@Mitchell Porter, I first heard about Church of the Subgenius by random accident. I read about it in an issue of Whole Earth Review guest-edited by Jay Kinney who was focusing on various strange and fringe groups and social and cultural phenomena. It seemed kinda innaresting but I didn't follow it up until I happened to see Book of the Subgenius on remainder in a remainders-focused bookstore. So…
A thought occurred to me on the way to work. Perhaps Gabbard will do well at National Security. Perhaps she will do so well that she will have, and seize, the opportunity to chop, slash and gouge her way to the top of the Republican totem pole . . . and run for President. Perhaps she would even be elected. If that happens, I hope that POSB Hillary lives long enough to see it. And her little brat…
Every single Clintonite Shitobamacrat Senator voted against Gabbard. That is entirely predictable. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-vote-senate/index.html The two Independent Senators, both King and Sanders, also voted no. I find that very sad. Especially Sanders. I wish he had shown some hatred and vengeance towards the Clintonite Shitobamacrats in this…
Here's a piece of good news. Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-vote-senate/index.html If she opposes hard enough Trump's plans to conquer and colonize Greenland, invade Mexico, and anschluss Canada, she will be fired in due course. But if she can talk Trump back and down, she could begin for America a graceful retreat from hegemony and…
@ Different Clue: "I wonder how much of Yves Smith’s upset is reality-based as against how much of it is anger that some of the commenters would not flatter the prejudices of others or of Yves Smith herself." Cha-ching. And while I may be blunt and I share few of the beliefs of the average frustrated NC or Ian Welsh poster, I honestly try to be respectful.
@Chuck Teague: You're not entirely wrong, but what do the non ruling caste euopeans do about it? To give a couple of recent exmples - get a german to admit that, yes, the United States blew up Nordstream. Duh. But what is their response? Are they oturaged that the United States committed an act of war on germany? No, you hear something to the effect that "bad slaves deserve their beatings!" Then…
For the apocalyptic book recommendations there is Parable of the Sower and Parable of the talents by Octavia Butler. Published in 1993 the first book is set in 2025 and starts in Los Angeles where the protagonists eventual flee northward as fires consume the entire city. A racist oligarch runs for president under the campaign of "making America great again" Once in power his supports create…
*us Americans.
I want to thank Ian, and the entire commentariat, for the quality of the comments here. I regret the closing of the Naked Capitalism comments section, and have appreciated much of that blog's work over the years. However, I have to say I have been in significant disagreement with that blog for a few years now. NC, in the commentariat, has taken an increasingly hard right turn since they joined the…