The mission of the elites who rule our society is to circumvent an inescapable law of history: that every society experiences change. These elites can prolong the lifespan of their power structure by modifying it as time passes, and this is what they’ve lately been doing by making our ruling institutions come to look more socially and culturally progressive. These aesthetic shifts towards the appearance of inclusion and equity, which have mainly happened since the start of this century’s biggest economic crisis so far, weren’t going to prevent the next stages in capitalism’s decline. More and bigger contractions were going to come to our economy, which meant that our rulers would need to adapt further.
Today, Thinking Things Through Is More Necessary Than Ever
I have to be increasingly careful with what I say, because it might be too anti-woke for history to look kindly on. When I say this, I am not essentially referring to regression. I would survive under an honest barbarism just as easily as civilized barbarism. But rather the objectivity that must return to modern civil liberties definitions. The degeneracy and cognitive failure of the liberal forces to make distinctions and discernments assembles the current identitarian and neo fascist situation - how honest is it? And how far does it go? Obviously the society is constantly lying, and going too far. Maybe the society really is mentally ill, which by first glance, the entire world seems to think America is schizophrenic and evil. (I don't think so, because the social psychology of evil has much more to do with 'what you can get away with' before there are repercussions. Not mental illness).
Nobody knows what the future really holds Rainer, but liberals are really the lowest consciousness in the world today. That's going in the history books without a doubt.
The sad thing is that I am bracketing people who think the earth is flat, that dinosaurs and science are hoaxes,--as better informed than the fake left--should this ring alarm bells? Americans read at a grade 6 level. The far hard right has a record and its always been wrong too.
But for independent working class politics, the future must be taken into our own hands. Not by inheriting whatever is popular, whatever is dominant. Do we really need ten new different categories and slang to section and scalpel the 'working class'?
Gore Vidal was a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century. In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history, and such satirical novels as MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DULUTH, he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. He wrote well over a hundred essays, gathered in several volumes published between 1962 and 2001. Taken as a whole, this seemingly varied work has an uncanny unity, exhibiting a tone of easy familiarity with the world of politics and letters, an urbane wit, and a supreme self-confidence on the part of the writer. Vidal’s lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire.
RE: Morrigan Johnson -- WHAT? I have to be increasingly careful with what I say, because it might be too anti-woke for history to look kindly on.
Jesus Fucking Christ. Speak. This is a joke, looking at your life in some anti-woke barbarism?
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Woke? Jesus fucking Christ. EVERYTHING in the white shit hole Edward Bernays Mad Men Propaganda Racist thing fucks up the origina of the term. Give it a fucking rest. The USA gets it ALL wrong, man, no, in the lens of white shit heads.
“To be woke is to be Black,” is how Okayplayer Senior News and Culture Reporter Elijah Watson defined the Black American colloquialism, now broadly used derisively, when he embarked on a journey in 2017 to plot its origins. Ironically, his research first turned up a 1962 New York Times essay, “If You’re Woke You Dig It,” by the then Harlem-based writer William Melvin Kelley, who was highlighting the phenomenon of Black American slang being appropriated by white people who often missed or altogether distorted the words’ original meanings, until the idioms were taken over, inevitably transformed, and ultimately abandoned by their original Black creators.
Kelley was “prophetic,” Watson tells LDF in a recent conversation. We are six decades and several cultural lifetimes past when Kelley’s essay was published, and as we discuss what’s been done to woke in the 21st century, it’s hard to disagree.
“The language seems to be modified in two ways,” Kelley wrote in the ‘60s. “The first is to give a word, already in use, its opposite meaning. At one time, the connotations of ‘jive’ were all good; now they are bad, or at least questionable.”
The fucking Elvis freaks and Rolling Stones perverts steal steal steal. SO, end the anti-anti-woke game, Morrigan.
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Fuck White AMerica.
Michael Harriot, columnist at TheGrio and author of the upcoming book, Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America, explains that this kind of insidious takeover and flipping of Black vernacular to anti-Black pejorative has numerous parallels in America’s past and runs all the way up to present day.
“When you look at the long arc of history and America’s reaction to the request for Black liberation – every time Black people try to use a phrase or coin a phrase that symbolizes our desire for liberation, it will eventually become a cuss word to white people,” Harriot says in an interview with LDF.
And Black people have never been silent — or at a loss for innovation — when articulating demands for justice. In fact, the use of “woke” as an in-group signal urging Black people to be aware of the systems that harm and otherwise put us at a disadvantage is documented as far back as the 1920s. The Jamaican philosopher Marcus Garvey, exhorting members of the Black diaspora in America, Jamaica, and elsewhere to join the cause of Pan-Africanism, called on them to “Wake Up!” By 1938, the iconic American Blues musician Lead Belly (born Huddie Ledbetter) had recorded the song “Scottsboro Boys.” The ballad tells the true story of four Black youths who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in Scottsboro, Alabama, and subsequently convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death — though they were thankfully freed after several appeals and trials. In the song, Lead Belly says of Alabama, “I advise everybody to be a little careful when they go down there. Stay woke. Keep your eyes open.”
Today, Thinking Things Through Is More Necessary Than Ever
I have to be increasingly careful with what I say, because it might be too anti-woke for history to look kindly on. When I say this, I am not essentially referring to regression. I would survive under an honest barbarism just as easily as civilized barbarism. But rather the objectivity that must return to modern civil liberties definitions. The degeneracy and cognitive failure of the liberal forces to make distinctions and discernments assembles the current identitarian and neo fascist situation - how honest is it? And how far does it go? Obviously the society is constantly lying, and going too far. Maybe the society really is mentally ill, which by first glance, the entire world seems to think America is schizophrenic and evil. (I don't think so, because the social psychology of evil has much more to do with 'what you can get away with' before there are repercussions. Not mental illness).
Nobody knows what the future really holds Rainer, but liberals are really the lowest consciousness in the world today. That's going in the history books without a doubt.
The sad thing is that I am bracketing people who think the earth is flat, that dinosaurs and science are hoaxes,--as better informed than the fake left--should this ring alarm bells? Americans read at a grade 6 level. The far hard right has a record and its always been wrong too.
But for independent working class politics, the future must be taken into our own hands. Not by inheriting whatever is popular, whatever is dominant. Do we really need ten new different categories and slang to section and scalpel the 'working class'?
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2022/Articles/M520061.HTM
Just take time and listen to Gore Vidal, man:
Gore Vidal was a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century. In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history, and such satirical novels as MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DULUTH, he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. He wrote well over a hundred essays, gathered in several volumes published between 1962 and 2001. Taken as a whole, this seemingly varied work has an uncanny unity, exhibiting a tone of easy familiarity with the world of politics and letters, an urbane wit, and a supreme self-confidence on the part of the writer. Vidal’s lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire.
https://youtu.be/zli2VHO4p1I?si=ZVeoi4fKFhm5kTsV
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RE: Morrigan Johnson -- WHAT? I have to be increasingly careful with what I say, because it might be too anti-woke for history to look kindly on.
Jesus Fucking Christ. Speak. This is a joke, looking at your life in some anti-woke barbarism?
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Woke? Jesus fucking Christ. EVERYTHING in the white shit hole Edward Bernays Mad Men Propaganda Racist thing fucks up the origina of the term. Give it a fucking rest. The USA gets it ALL wrong, man, no, in the lens of white shit heads.
“To be woke is to be Black,” is how Okayplayer Senior News and Culture Reporter Elijah Watson defined the Black American colloquialism, now broadly used derisively, when he embarked on a journey in 2017 to plot its origins. Ironically, his research first turned up a 1962 New York Times essay, “If You’re Woke You Dig It,” by the then Harlem-based writer William Melvin Kelley, who was highlighting the phenomenon of Black American slang being appropriated by white people who often missed or altogether distorted the words’ original meanings, until the idioms were taken over, inevitably transformed, and ultimately abandoned by their original Black creators.
Kelley was “prophetic,” Watson tells LDF in a recent conversation. We are six decades and several cultural lifetimes past when Kelley’s essay was published, and as we discuss what’s been done to woke in the 21st century, it’s hard to disagree.
“The language seems to be modified in two ways,” Kelley wrote in the ‘60s. “The first is to give a word, already in use, its opposite meaning. At one time, the connotations of ‘jive’ were all good; now they are bad, or at least questionable.”
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https://www.naacpldf.org/woke-black-bad/
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The fucking Elvis freaks and Rolling Stones perverts steal steal steal. SO, end the anti-anti-woke game, Morrigan.
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Fuck White AMerica.
Michael Harriot, columnist at TheGrio and author of the upcoming book, Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America, explains that this kind of insidious takeover and flipping of Black vernacular to anti-Black pejorative has numerous parallels in America’s past and runs all the way up to present day.
“When you look at the long arc of history and America’s reaction to the request for Black liberation – every time Black people try to use a phrase or coin a phrase that symbolizes our desire for liberation, it will eventually become a cuss word to white people,” Harriot says in an interview with LDF.
And Black people have never been silent — or at a loss for innovation — when articulating demands for justice. In fact, the use of “woke” as an in-group signal urging Black people to be aware of the systems that harm and otherwise put us at a disadvantage is documented as far back as the 1920s. The Jamaican philosopher Marcus Garvey, exhorting members of the Black diaspora in America, Jamaica, and elsewhere to join the cause of Pan-Africanism, called on them to “Wake Up!” By 1938, the iconic American Blues musician Lead Belly (born Huddie Ledbetter) had recorded the song “Scottsboro Boys.” The ballad tells the true story of four Black youths who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in Scottsboro, Alabama, and subsequently convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death — though they were thankfully freed after several appeals and trials. In the song, Lead Belly says of Alabama, “I advise everybody to be a little careful when they go down there. Stay woke. Keep your eyes open.”