It’s only mithyā, so it barely matters. Nevertheless. Notes.
I find myself in broad agreement with everything our Fellowkid is saying here:
The Real Dawn of Everything pt.4: the origins and future of modern life
And, I notice with a certain gratitude how he mucks it up by claiming, from the very start, that he has “the right theory”.
This is a lesson and a reminder of a lesson.
Just like this somewhat self-destructive creator, I am always right.
At the same time, I know nothing about nothing.
Both things are true.
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Perhaps the most interesting part of the analysis comes when it discusses not the Dawn of ‘Everything’, but the dawn of … ‘democracy’.
Who were the American revolutionaries?
Founding Fathers? Nah. Not my daddies. I ain’t no fortunate son.
See also our perennial favorite on the topic, James of Austin.
They were, mostly, the merchant nobility of the north, and the plantation nobility from Virginia on south.
Rather than anyone at all who had/has nothing but their labor to sell, i.e. peasants like me.
Which definitely helps explain why it was only the Landowning white males who got a vote, after the revolution was successful.
There’s also some good stuff in here about how the very idea of property fucks up anything and everything good; thank you for the insight our long-passed brethren and sistern in true anarchy.
And: How neoliberalism totally trashed anything virtuous about the Democratic Party of FDR and JFK.
Consider: are academics and the rest of the professional-managerial class the equivalent of high priests and clergy of the secular church of scientific materialism? Yes I really do think.
and eff anyone, btw, who wants to preach the gospel of wealth, the law of attraction, or the divinity of prosperity at you right alongside the one about progress and the one about Israel’s right to defend itself and this being the most important election of our lifetime, again, ‘kay?
At the very end, the agreement Fellowkid and I have slowly built up comes crashing down when he comes out of the closet as a Materialist, and even slanders the authors of the book he’s reviewing as bloody Idealists. (In case you missed it over the last several months, I pretty much am one of the latter, too.)
ENNNNaway …
Maybe our man has the right theory, or maybe I win, but either way …
If you think both of us can somehow be wrong …
I am ethically compelled to feel sorry for you; Dammit!
The End.