"The Convoy Disaster." Bullshit is useless without being believed. The saddest thing isn't that cynical and brainwashed human beings write and speak lies on behalf of a system that bathes them in affluent complacency - of course they do. What gives me a sickness in my stomach about this kind of rhetoric in the press is that ordinary day to day people outside of the system of privileges and perks afforded to those who conjure up these asinine euphemisms and deceptions -- ordinary people who gain NOTHING from believing this kind of shit -- actually believe it.
The first time I read it (~1968~) I didn’t think so but I feel like it is more so now in portraits of those belonging to an Amerikkkan “warrior caste”.
For Sci-Fi, I recommend Grace L. Dillon’s “Walking The Clouds, an anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction”.
To the extent I can remember Catch 22 was about the enormous black market that existed in allied occupied Italy toward the end of WWII. The conscripted US soldiers were running rings around their clueless officers.
"The Convoy Disaster." Bullshit is useless without being believed. The saddest thing isn't that cynical and brainwashed human beings write and speak lies on behalf of a system that bathes them in affluent complacency - of course they do. What gives me a sickness in my stomach about this kind of rhetoric in the press is that ordinary day to day people outside of the system of privileges and perks afforded to those who conjure up these asinine euphemisms and deceptions -- ordinary people who gain NOTHING from believing this kind of shit -- actually believe it.
Just gotta say thank you, Paul for your work. And that I picked up on one book (not on your list), Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
Thanks back. Refresh my memory..was that a dystopian novel?
The first time I read it (~1968~) I didn’t think so but I feel like it is more so now in portraits of those belonging to an Amerikkkan “warrior caste”.
For Sci-Fi, I recommend Grace L. Dillon’s “Walking The Clouds, an anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction”.
To the extent I can remember Catch 22 was about the enormous black market that existed in allied occupied Italy toward the end of WWII. The conscripted US soldiers were running rings around their clueless officers.
The anonymous 27-year-old woman who set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta is still alive. https://husseini.substack.com/p/jane-doe-who-immolated-herself-at
okay.