Thank you for content that keeps me away from the Twitter dumpster fire. I grade law essays anonymously. Thousands. Sometimes I come across a perfectly written exam and I want to find out who wrote it, their background, and talk to them. This is how I feel about you.
The bit about a whole generation growing up to not only to have never heard of msnbc but to have never Su described to or bought or logged onto the new york Times. I'm a reporter. Or rather was until March when I was let go and asked to be a blogger paid at half a cent per click. I grew up longing to be in the Nyt and wanting to have relationships w/ their editors. (I'm ex WsJ in Sao Paulo. Ex Boston globe. Ex forbes). I can assure you my kids will never watch and indeed never have watched a single prime time news program or read a newspaper. They do not follow the nyt on heir social media and in fact my oldest has killed her Insta account. The media is a toxic wasteland. Let it go cold and die out. I can't wait to see it.
Question: in this post you say the fall of the crazy left is inevitable, in the post on vaccine passports you say that "it can. it will." happen - do you think both of those things are true?
yes. i think the current leftist obsessions like CRT, colonial theory, gender theory, etc have about had it. it's drifted into such outlandishly false precincts and absurdist claims that people are just not going to swallow it anymore and it's becoming more and more acceptable every day to call this emperor out for his lack of pants.
this will shift public debate/overton window/etc.
this, however, is a very different issue that what the vaccine passports represent and that movement is rooted in fascism and authoritarianism. fascism is (and contrary to common claims always has been) a leftist youth movement. but it's not the same as the CRT crowd and i think the sincere fascists and totalitarians are, frankly, upset by this leftist derangement as it discredits the side and forces them to defend ground they know they cannot.
it also stops them from aligning with their authoritarian counterparts on the right to generate truly far reaching and nasty top down control. the semiotic aggrievement department at oberlin is not where the danger lies. the danger lies at the place where google meets halliburton and the public health department meets climate changes meets the neocon department of MOAR WAR.
that is the place that vax passports can take us. that is why we need such a call to arms there. this foray into nonsensical race and gender theory will be self correcting as people will just stop reading it. it's one of the few things people will actually pull their kids out of school over. but if they get that kind of coercive hooks into us, they can push whatever they want (including possibly that, though i doubt a proposition so divisive and absurdist can hold together).
the natural drift from left to right is self correcting so long as we maintain a basically free society. but authoritarian impulse spans these two groups and if we drift too far over that line, there is no peaceful way back.
authoritarianism can ALWAYS happen here. and we're awfully close to the line right now where the slope gets REALLY slippery. but this has little to do with CRT etc and the public zeitgeist around it.
sorry, sort of a rambling answer. does that makes sense?
Thank you. Yes, I actually have been starting to feel the same way. Corporate right and authoritarian left basically want to merge into one. I notice that people who are on the right and don't like it call it communism, people who are on the left and don't like it call it fascism - but whatever we want to call it it seems to be coalescing fast.
It’s easy to get discouraged these days, when it seems as if the woke left is unstoppable. Thank you for reminding me that there are many of us that don’t subscribe to those views, and more avenues for us to communicate without being censored. (Although they are trying)....
Maybe you can write something about the SEC’s current attack on crypto (via the LBRY lawsuit)?
Slightly off topic, RSS feeds are a great way to bypass legacy media and social networks while still getting that Twitter feed aggregation, when you can find the RSS. Substack does not show RSS feed icons but you can get feeds by adding "/feed" to the hostname, e.g. https://boriquagato.substack.com/feed, so you can subscribe to Substack content to your RSS reader. (Looks like this gets free content only though)
Thank you for content that keeps me away from the Twitter dumpster fire. I grade law essays anonymously. Thousands. Sometimes I come across a perfectly written exam and I want to find out who wrote it, their background, and talk to them. This is how I feel about you.
The bit about a whole generation growing up to not only to have never heard of msnbc but to have never Su described to or bought or logged onto the new york Times. I'm a reporter. Or rather was until March when I was let go and asked to be a blogger paid at half a cent per click. I grew up longing to be in the Nyt and wanting to have relationships w/ their editors. (I'm ex WsJ in Sao Paulo. Ex Boston globe. Ex forbes). I can assure you my kids will never watch and indeed never have watched a single prime time news program or read a newspaper. They do not follow the nyt on heir social media and in fact my oldest has killed her Insta account. The media is a toxic wasteland. Let it go cold and die out. I can't wait to see it.
Question: in this post you say the fall of the crazy left is inevitable, in the post on vaccine passports you say that "it can. it will." happen - do you think both of those things are true?
yes. i think the current leftist obsessions like CRT, colonial theory, gender theory, etc have about had it. it's drifted into such outlandishly false precincts and absurdist claims that people are just not going to swallow it anymore and it's becoming more and more acceptable every day to call this emperor out for his lack of pants.
this will shift public debate/overton window/etc.
this, however, is a very different issue that what the vaccine passports represent and that movement is rooted in fascism and authoritarianism. fascism is (and contrary to common claims always has been) a leftist youth movement. but it's not the same as the CRT crowd and i think the sincere fascists and totalitarians are, frankly, upset by this leftist derangement as it discredits the side and forces them to defend ground they know they cannot.
it also stops them from aligning with their authoritarian counterparts on the right to generate truly far reaching and nasty top down control. the semiotic aggrievement department at oberlin is not where the danger lies. the danger lies at the place where google meets halliburton and the public health department meets climate changes meets the neocon department of MOAR WAR.
that is the place that vax passports can take us. that is why we need such a call to arms there. this foray into nonsensical race and gender theory will be self correcting as people will just stop reading it. it's one of the few things people will actually pull their kids out of school over. but if they get that kind of coercive hooks into us, they can push whatever they want (including possibly that, though i doubt a proposition so divisive and absurdist can hold together).
the natural drift from left to right is self correcting so long as we maintain a basically free society. but authoritarian impulse spans these two groups and if we drift too far over that line, there is no peaceful way back.
authoritarianism can ALWAYS happen here. and we're awfully close to the line right now where the slope gets REALLY slippery. but this has little to do with CRT etc and the public zeitgeist around it.
sorry, sort of a rambling answer. does that makes sense?
Thank you. Yes, I actually have been starting to feel the same way. Corporate right and authoritarian left basically want to merge into one. I notice that people who are on the right and don't like it call it communism, people who are on the left and don't like it call it fascism - but whatever we want to call it it seems to be coalescing fast.
It’s easy to get discouraged these days, when it seems as if the woke left is unstoppable. Thank you for reminding me that there are many of us that don’t subscribe to those views, and more avenues for us to communicate without being censored. (Although they are trying)....
Maybe you can write something about the SEC’s current attack on crypto (via the LBRY lawsuit)?
Slightly off topic, RSS feeds are a great way to bypass legacy media and social networks while still getting that Twitter feed aggregation, when you can find the RSS. Substack does not show RSS feed icons but you can get feeds by adding "/feed" to the hostname, e.g. https://boriquagato.substack.com/feed, so you can subscribe to Substack content to your RSS reader. (Looks like this gets free content only though)