The Thought Criminal

"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE

Friday, August 14, 2020

Now When Trump Does The Birther Number He's Breaking His Oath of Office.

I am not a great fan of the lawyer Neal Katyal who I find rather intentionally naive about his fellow lawyers in so many instances.* But he...

The Fascists In The Media Are Pulling The Same Stuff On Harris They Did On Obama And It's Clear Why They're Doing It

H ere's the profile of the Newsweek opinion editor who published the racist, birther lies of right-wing hack John Eastman against Kamala...

Thursday, August 13, 2020

The Lack Of Faith Or Bad Faith Of So Many Make The Secular Left Impotent To Change Anything

The alternative consciousness wrought by Moses also provides a model for energizing. Moses and this narrative create the sense of new reali...

Strange Mood Or Summer Heat?

I have had the oddest yen to find the piano score of Slaughter on 10th Avenue to play through it. I don't know why, I've never had...

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The empire is left to grieve over its days of not caring and its gods of order and its politics of injustice

I am going to finish this section today because something seems to be developing that may keep me from posting tomorrow, we will see. Curi...

Someone Wants To Know How To Dump Windows

S omeone asks how I changed from Windows to Linux. This is just how it happened for me. People who know more about it probably could give ...

ceasing to look to the numbed and dull empire that never intended to answer in the first place

Beginning with the whole paragraph I ended with last time from The Prophetic Imagination: That cry which is the primal criticism is articul...

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

De Facto Rank Choice For The VP In My Case

D idn't get my first choice for VP who was also my first choice for president, Elizabeth Warren but Kamala Harris was my second choice. ...

Overdue One Year Report On Switching To Linux

I t's been well over a year since I made the switch from Windows to Linux and can report that I have had absolutely no regrets about hav...

The Rejection of Resignation Is Only The Beginning

But I think what happens in the Exodus is the primal scream that permits the beginning of history. In the verb “cry out” (za’ak) there is ...

Monday, August 10, 2020

Where Has This Been All These Years? Hiding In The Light?

Being officially a low-vision person who has to blow things up to large size to see them on the screen, I have been led to using dark mode,...

And as long as the empire can keep the pretense alive that things are all right, there will be no real grieving and no serious criticism

But the criticism has another dimension. Plastaras has seen that the narrative of liberation began with the grieving complaint of Israel in...

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Don't Let The Changes of Names, Faces And Details Of The Narrative Blind You To The Repetition Of This Story Here and Now

T o try to avoid the HTML oddities of New Blogger, I am trying going back to something I’d done in the past but gave up out of laziness, typ...

Saturday, August 8, 2020

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Alan McMonagle - Pink Moon & Liz Nugent - Scorned

Pink Moon Continuing our summer season of new writing, Drama on One presents Pink Moon written by Alan McMonagle and starring Enda O...

"Yahweh MAKES POSSIBLE AND REQUIRES an alternative theology and an alternative sociology."

The program of Moses is not the freeing of a little band of slaves as an escape from the empire, though that is important enough, especially...

Friday, August 7, 2020

Sorry about the font size in that morning post, New Blogger doesn't seem to have a way to get into the HTML like Old Blogger did,at le...

social radicalism has been like a cut flower without nourishment, without any sanctions deeper than human courage and good intentions

C ontinuing with The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann It is the marvel of prophetic faith that both imperial religion and imperi...

When Lefty Groups Play The Game Of The Most Demandiest Of All Skepticism Is In Order

I will admit up front that I am automatically skeptical about anything that comes from the lefties of Wisconsin, especially if it comes out...

Thursday, August 6, 2020

American Is Ruled By Static and Material gods As Certainly As Ancient Egypt Was

W alter Breggemann then goes into several long, numbered analyses of what was so radically different between the new, Mosaic way of life and...

We Limit Freedom Of The Media To Telling The Truth Or We Get Trumpism

T he media instilled insanity of about 40% of the American population is a clear and present danger to us all. Literally a danger to our l...

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