Dear readers, I built on my most recent audio to pen a long CounterPunch essay criticizing the absurd and snotty fascism denial of Adam Marantz, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and numerous intellectuals and academics who are failing the moment.
Thank you, Paul, What you refer to is moving forward quickly , in terms of historical changes. It's appalling that more people don't see or care, probably uneducated in spite of having an "education university education and who also promote your devastating scenario, repeated frequently in hopes of alerting the semi conscious people of the USA, not to mention other countries promoting the evil. I'm not an optimist and I fear that, like the good people in Germany a century ago, won't realize what is already happening until it's too late..
Paul seems right on target as usual. I am considerably older than him and I have seen the changes and trends that make current events and policies and politicians a disaster even when compared to tragic leaders from the recent past 30 to 40 years. I, too, was educated, socialized in the old "we are the greatest" perspective and philosophy that was sometimes called "Americanism." It took time to grow up and out of it as well as many years living outside the US to have different reference points. There are some who sees things more clearly like Paul and he mentions some, there are more. But you won`t find them on CNN, conventional network news, daily newspapers, etc. One has to put effort and time into growing up intellectually and truly learning.
Thank you. In my experience there's a choice to be made between (a) seeing things clearly and stating them honestly and (b) holding down a real paying job in academia or journalism or the nonprofit world, labor movement etc. The old Upton Sincialr line about how "It is difficult to get anybody to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it" isn't quite right. Many of those who keep their mouths shut and their copy clear of radical ideas understand things very well, including the fact that telling the truth will cost them jobs, promotions, grants, status, etc.
Thank you for writing this. It’s infuriating to listen to local weather reporters celebrating 75 degrees in March as a “beautiful day” without any acknowledgement of the long term ramifications of a warming planet. Spring and autumn become shorter every year where I live in New Jersey, with summer weather extending into mid-October. The change is rarely discussed.
Whoever controls what is 'normal' can get away with almost anything; just create some chaos and them offer a normalization scheme with built-in power loopholes that can be capitalized upon for profit or when needed for social control. That is the so-called 'culture war.' Young people, whose existential threats are entirely different from those experienced by the boomers in charge at that age, aren't buying it. Is a military draft next to take care of that? Heaven forbid.
Thank you, Paul, What you refer to is moving forward quickly , in terms of historical changes. It's appalling that more people don't see or care, probably uneducated in spite of having an "education university education and who also promote your devastating scenario, repeated frequently in hopes of alerting the semi conscious people of the USA, not to mention other countries promoting the evil. I'm not an optimist and I fear that, like the good people in Germany a century ago, won't realize what is already happening until it's too late..
Paul seems right on target as usual. I am considerably older than him and I have seen the changes and trends that make current events and policies and politicians a disaster even when compared to tragic leaders from the recent past 30 to 40 years. I, too, was educated, socialized in the old "we are the greatest" perspective and philosophy that was sometimes called "Americanism." It took time to grow up and out of it as well as many years living outside the US to have different reference points. There are some who sees things more clearly like Paul and he mentions some, there are more. But you won`t find them on CNN, conventional network news, daily newspapers, etc. One has to put effort and time into growing up intellectually and truly learning.
Thank you. In my experience there's a choice to be made between (a) seeing things clearly and stating them honestly and (b) holding down a real paying job in academia or journalism or the nonprofit world, labor movement etc. The old Upton Sincialr line about how "It is difficult to get anybody to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it" isn't quite right. Many of those who keep their mouths shut and their copy clear of radical ideas understand things very well, including the fact that telling the truth will cost them jobs, promotions, grants, status, etc.
Thank you for writing this. It’s infuriating to listen to local weather reporters celebrating 75 degrees in March as a “beautiful day” without any acknowledgement of the long term ramifications of a warming planet. Spring and autumn become shorter every year where I live in New Jersey, with summer weather extending into mid-October. The change is rarely discussed.
Same. Just today heard weather guy saying we should be looking for a beautiful weekend ....in the 80s in April.
Yeah, climate changes.
Yeah, climate changes. It’s changed long before we were here, and will long after.
This one is anthropogenic and more specifically capitalogenic.
Whoever controls what is 'normal' can get away with almost anything; just create some chaos and them offer a normalization scheme with built-in power loopholes that can be capitalized upon for profit or when needed for social control. That is the so-called 'culture war.' Young people, whose existential threats are entirely different from those experienced by the boomers in charge at that age, aren't buying it. Is a military draft next to take care of that? Heaven forbid.