Into The Afternight: Our 3rd Shift O/T
7 repliesIf you’re still up and want to talk Chiefs, or just hang with fellow citizens of the Kingdom, this is the place.
I’m going to lead off with what I think is a nice resto on a pretty cool tool.
The only crazy part is this dude, but adding an underwater cam’s been a nice hack for him. Time for y’all’s turn now.
With that, time’s yours.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-crises-capitol-assault
I would highly recommend reading this article. This is not a fellow traveler in my worldview, quite the opposite he’s probably best described as center left (i can actual find a great deal of common ground with people of the far left, the old left, the real left… not the new left woke shit). He seems to recognize things are coming to a head and it freaks him out. Rightfully so. What he didn’t address is the last few days that have made it clear that the power structure in the United States is poised to embark on some colossal overreach that will backfire. I think he knows this and is holding back so as to not alienate those who he needs to recognize the issues we confront today.
It’s a good read. No doubt plenty of us will find it too equivocating in certain ways, but he diagnoses well the underlying dimensions of our ongoing collapse.
Even if you never read a single thing I write on this site again, read this. He wants saner heads to prevail in a way I’m not sure i do. But it’s remarkably well thought out and absent my annoying penchant for arrogance.
He lays out some cogent points, but I didn’t see much beyond that in the way of establishing actual causes and mechanisms.
My own take compared to the both of you is worse, but also better in greater measure than that. As I said, the system’s vastly more complex than that, and I’ve only been studying it enough years to grasp how limited my understanding of things has been. The better news is that the system overall isn’t in such a bad state as it’s been made out to be.
The bad news is two parts society and one part each to the political Partys. Your author agreed with me about primaries, you might have noticed, but he described it badly. There’s nothing there to indicate that both of them had previously used a republican form of nominations, via delegates from areas. This did indeed tie the Party leaderships to the grass roots, and going to direct democracy freed them of that connection.
That’s a point that gets lost on others around here, but they are younger and haven’t studied history, not even recent history.
Hahahaha. Once again collecting downvotes from my biggest fan. Living rent free in his cozy unfurnished head.
You’re a fan cards.