tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2764615895179820974..comments2024-03-28T19:41:59.726-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sometimes I Listen To Things I Shouldn't...driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-37836781434155535802021-04-29T15:43:07.944-05:002021-04-29T15:43:07.944-05:00So listening to things sometimes you shouldn't...So listening to things sometimes you shouldn't can be forgiven.<br /><br />Getting the time you wasted returned, is not refundable.Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15233719178495413876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31388061681126335382021-04-29T14:49:03.466-05:002021-04-29T14:49:03.466-05:00Speaking of "bringing up a little nugget,&quo...Speaking of "bringing up a little nugget," golden, fiducial, true weight.<br />She writes what I'm thinking...to the limits of the excerpt above. <br />Meremarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625496335637333544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10789605843120882752021-04-28T16:41:40.957-05:002021-04-28T16:41:40.957-05:00We're in the end game now.
"This brings ...<i>We're in the end game now.</i><br /><br />"This brings us to our second relatively uninteresting question, which is what to do about the alt-right [and, by extension, the right in general]. In this case the answer is even easier and more obvious than the first: you smash their bases of power, with violent resistance if necessary. If you want a more general solution that also takes care of the factors that led to a bunch of idiot racists being emboldened in the first place you drag all the billionaires out of their houses and put their heads on spikes.<br />"But the ease of answer reveals the deeper problem with 'what's to be done' as an angle on the alt-right. We all know what's to be done. Nazis have been the go-to example for people arguing why sometimes violent resistance is necessary for decades. But in the absence of a credible resistance that consists of more than hashtags and an inexplicable propensity to take Louise Mensch seriously the knowledge of what we should do is fairly useless. We're not doing it, and I am to say the least skeptical that screaming 'for fuck's sake, just bash the fucking nazis' skulls in already' for the enxt 350 pages would magically kickstart a mass uprising.<br />"Instead this book asks a different question: if winning is off the table, what should we do instead? Because the grim reality is that things look really fucking bad. Ecological disaster is looming, the geopolitical order is paralyzed, and we're not putting nearly enough billionaire heads on spikes to plausibly change it. What, then, is left?<br />"This is not a question with straightforward answers. Straightforwardness is for victors who get statues and ballads. The defeated operate from shadows and hidden places, and the legacies they leave are cryptic and secret. This book behaves accordingly, and there are limits to what I am willing or indeed able to explain."<br />-- Dr. Elizabeth Sandifer, introduction to her collection <i>Neoreaction a Basilisk: essays on and around the alt-right</i> (Ithaca: Eruditorum Press, 2017)Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-54626397267622665242021-04-28T15:45:03.809-05:002021-04-28T15:45:03.809-05:00we're in the end game now.
Ain't that the...<i>we're in the end game now</i>.<br /><br />Ain't that the truth. In my 68 years the ratchet has only gone 1 way, and I see no reason that might change. And what comes after a failed insurrection?Cheez Whizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16397895460801014596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32566788053709096312021-04-28T11:03:27.461-05:002021-04-28T11:03:27.461-05:00These guys are so pathetic. "Look at me, loo...These guys are so pathetic. "Look at me, look at me, LOOK AT MEEEE!!!!!"SteveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06422478143660375541noreply@blogger.com