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

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Katie Hims - Listening To The Dead

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  Listening To The Dead    This is a set of five plays about members of the Cartwright-Tully Family centering on the mixed blessing of being...

How A Tender Regard For Doing Fairness To The Slaveholders Who Used Up Slaves Fastest Was Embedded In The Constitution

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THE RACIST EVEN HOMICIDAL CALLOUSNESS in regard to Black People held in slavery of the affluent white men who wrote the Constitution can be...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Just How Irrational The Supreme Court's Ruling Power Is Can Be Seen In The Dishonesty Of Its Origin

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 It should be said, however, that Marshall no longer 'idolized democracy,' as he declared he did when as a young man he addressed th...

Covid Again

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I CAN REPORT that "herd immunity" is bullshit because you can get covid-19 more than once and a second bout (even while being boos...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Reason's aversion to contingency is very strong

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MY NOTING THE FAILURE OF "ENLIGHTENMENT" THINKING in riffing off of Hannah Arendt's great essay Lying in Politics is absolutel...
Friday, October 7, 2022

"The Constitution was not created by "the whole people" as the jurists have said; neither was it created by "the states" as Southern nullifiers long contendedThat is not any accidental issue or mere unimportant detail - Hate Mail

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BEING TAKEN UP with going over some of Hannah Arendt's observations in her essay Lying in Politics, I don't have the time to cite a...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Really Clueless Hate Mail

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ANYONE WHO BELIEVES that Newt Gingrich, Marjory Taylor Greene, Ron Desantis, etc. believes in a. God, b. the Gospel of Jesus, c. the differ...

Arendt On The Corruption Of Culture By The Methods Of Advertising

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Hannah Arendt continued: To the many genres in the art of lying developed in the past, we must now add two more recent varieties.  There is,...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality

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I HAD NEVER READ or listened to Hannah Arendt's virtuoso essay Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers until I recently f...
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