Yes, that's what I liked about Nelson's quote -- it gets you out of the headspace of confilct that helps only those who stand to gain by generating it.
Notice we have to READ about the oppressor/oppressed dynamics, the social injustices, how we've never been more divided.
And I want to say to these people: Do you not go outside? Do you feel any of this tension when you're shopping? Getting your car fixed? Eating at a restaurant?
These Friday memos sometimes have the quality of reading obituaries. Obituaries of our culture & society. Then you read something like Tyler Austin Harper’s comment & realize there may be something poetic here after all. Thank Brad.
Great list Brad. Keeping it in my archives to slap liberals around a bit in our rhetorical battles.
Speaking of rhetoric...
“Elite liberals are perpetually vacillating between hair-on-fire ‘fascism’ hysterics and cool, confident assurances that they were obviously right all along. That’s one of the beauties of elite liberalism. Boundless adaptability, and the most exquisitely effortless memory-holing.” — Michael Tracey
This is absolutely true. It seems to me that the entire Democrat industrial complex is tooled to farm rhetorical talking points for the left media and their cult followers. When they are proven wrong, and they are wrong about everything, they just farm a new pivot and get the memo out to the cult population through their media feeds. Then they all start chanting the new memes while ignoring their historical wrongness (because it would otherwise damage their fragile ego).
It is impressive how efficiently this narrative and meme factory can influence and educate the highly educated to chant and repeat the same lines. And we know how propaganda works... repeat the lines enough times and unsuspecting people start to believe it.
That is how they can say "Jan-6 was an insurrection" when we know it was not, and it becomes an accepted "fact".
It is the evidence that they can do this and it works that gives them the confidence that they can keep winning elections.
And THAT might be the ONLY thing that they are actually right about.
Wow, what a ride! From a craven, debased culture as expressed in the Mayorkas, Cortez quotes to a strong, virtuous, virile culture as expressed in the moving, beautiful John Shea letter to his son Jackie in the 'Lost WWII Aircraft Carrier' story.
So many of these are gold, but the Gurri, Taibbi, and Savodnik quotes are next-level truth.
You beat me to the punch with this recognition, particularly Gurri. I think Nelson's quote is a great add-on to Gurri's for non-elite viewpoints.
Yes, that's what I liked about Nelson's quote -- it gets you out of the headspace of confilct that helps only those who stand to gain by generating it.
Notice we have to READ about the oppressor/oppressed dynamics, the social injustices, how we've never been more divided.
And I want to say to these people: Do you not go outside? Do you feel any of this tension when you're shopping? Getting your car fixed? Eating at a restaurant?
That first quote by Patrick Deenan could not be more on point.
Has Brad put in a week of sanity to balance out the batshit crazy? Or is the craziness subsiding?
These Friday memos sometimes have the quality of reading obituaries. Obituaries of our culture & society. Then you read something like Tyler Austin Harper’s comment & realize there may be something poetic here after all. Thank Brad.
Great list Brad. Keeping it in my archives to slap liberals around a bit in our rhetorical battles.
Speaking of rhetoric...
“Elite liberals are perpetually vacillating between hair-on-fire ‘fascism’ hysterics and cool, confident assurances that they were obviously right all along. That’s one of the beauties of elite liberalism. Boundless adaptability, and the most exquisitely effortless memory-holing.” — Michael Tracey
This is absolutely true. It seems to me that the entire Democrat industrial complex is tooled to farm rhetorical talking points for the left media and their cult followers. When they are proven wrong, and they are wrong about everything, they just farm a new pivot and get the memo out to the cult population through their media feeds. Then they all start chanting the new memes while ignoring their historical wrongness (because it would otherwise damage their fragile ego).
It is impressive how efficiently this narrative and meme factory can influence and educate the highly educated to chant and repeat the same lines. And we know how propaganda works... repeat the lines enough times and unsuspecting people start to believe it.
That is how they can say "Jan-6 was an insurrection" when we know it was not, and it becomes an accepted "fact".
It is the evidence that they can do this and it works that gives them the confidence that they can keep winning elections.
And THAT might be the ONLY thing that they are actually right about.
“Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?”
The list that refused to acknowledge RFK Jr's book The Real Anthony Fauci? Ya think?
Wow, what a ride! From a craven, debased culture as expressed in the Mayorkas, Cortez quotes to a strong, virtuous, virile culture as expressed in the moving, beautiful John Shea letter to his son Jackie in the 'Lost WWII Aircraft Carrier' story.