tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647180678398772674.post6927829447790002898..comments2024-01-19T16:57:32.385-08:00Comments on Six Foot Turkey: Psychic Resistance Log, Star-Date 12.9.16Joshua Leachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786588059362202964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647180678398772674.post-14616554050393832422016-12-12T20:27:29.662-08:002016-12-12T20:27:29.662-08:00Couldn't agree more. The left can't seem t...Couldn't agree more. The left can't seem to resist digging its own grave. <br />Did you see Timothy Snyder's "20 Lessons from the Twentieth Century" about combatting authoritarianism in the wake of Trump, by any chance? Definitely worth a read if not. This part in particular comes to mind in regard to this point about truth:<br />"8. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights."<br />Here's his full list:<br />http://kottke.org/16/11/fighting-authoritarianism-20-lessons-from-the-20th-century<br /><br />Joshua Leachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786588059362202964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647180678398772674.post-89664310746265931612016-12-12T10:11:49.622-08:002016-12-12T10:11:49.622-08:00Am I the only person who finds it curious that ver...Am I the only person who finds it curious that very weird post modernist views have become common sense, especially among the powerful? Remember when the idea that there is no truth, just power, was a dominant trope of the pomo "left"? Well, as Cory Robin has noted frequently, the right is always ready to appropriate the useful ideas generated first on the left. They are reaction-aries after all. But of all the unfortunate things used to lay the basis of Trump's rise, the institutionalization of (5), pomo really, is the oddest of all. As we might all have begun to notice, truth is the weak person's friend. The powerful just make shit up.Norberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15701059232144474269noreply@blogger.com