And remember, throughout WWII, Fascism was rapidly becoming the de facto mode of government in the west; in the US, for example, the mobilization of the nation for WWII meant the creation of an immense administrative state that—rather than seizing and controlling industries directly—worked through a complex of b…
And remember, throughout WWII, Fascism was rapidly becoming the de facto mode of government in the west; in the US, for example, the mobilization of the nation for WWII meant the creation of an immense administrative state that—rather than seizing and controlling industries directly—worked through a complex of board membership to achieve proxy public control. Which is technically fascism (the so-called "third way.")
This ^^ was even touted at the time as the future and ideal model of all governance; and as it was staffed by “experts” from academia, it was celebrated in universities and taught to generations of students.
But if they were to work towards fascism -- worldwide and here in the US - they had to rid "fascism" of the associations with the almost universally deplored Nazism.
So they recast Nazism—the apotheosis of leftist collectivism—as politically “far Right." And they did this through the introduction of a new political science model that became a bedrock of the field by the mid-20th century. It worked so well it was almost like black magic.
Meanwhile, they marched forward - politically, culturally, educationally - under the new banner of that distressingly vague term "Progressivism."
But if we were misled about the nature of fascism—and imagining it would come jackbooted and goose stepping into history again—how would we recognize it when it came?
What if it arrived this time masquerading as simulated kindness?
For the essential thing was always that all measures were:”Für Ihre Sicherheit" (“For your safety.”)
So true. There is also the thought that the First Industrial Revolution was marked in part by the American Civil War - now we have yet another possible Civil War marking Klaus Schwab's Fourth Industrial Revolution. This time the Civil War appears to be planetary.
Yes, exactly. And the Civil War was really the first fully industrial /mechanized warfare which made possible truly mass death; the analogue would presumably be that in this "civil war" the technological mode is incredibly sophisticated social media platforms - among other asymmetric networks -- that can and do generate and shape groupthink on a mass scale, and that globally for billions. It almost like a mass spell; and looks unstoppable sometimes.
In the Fall, 2021 edition of the Claremont Review of Books, the esteemed Victor Davis Hanson wrote a review of a new biography of Robert E. Lee. It is Hanson's opinion that Sherman was a superior leader than Lee. Yes, the total war waged against the South ended the American Civil War. But at what cost? Putin, if anything, is pulling his punches in Ukraine and the New World Order is aghast, horrified, and anxious to kill him.
Excellent comment. At what cost indeed; some might say the nation, the Constitution, and any kind of civilized order. In addition to the horror and loss of life, the repercussions were immense at every level.
If it weren't for the massive economic/monetary dislocations that followed, would we saddled with a "Federal" Reserve? I wonder.
Still wondering why exactly the Federal Reserve building in DC is surrounded by chain link fencing. Quite obviously at the very least we have been taken over by hostile forces. No doubt. It’s been in the works for awhile.
In my opinion (and we're getting into murky territory here, ha!) the "war" has already been won. "Bidan" is not really in control; he's just a bad actor. The District has been enemy-occupied territory; and is now essentially a war zone.
Yes, you’re 100% correct and we’re well into it. Biden isn’t even capable of caring for himself. A media defined actual shooting war hasn’t been declared but there is more than enough fog of war to go around, battles being fought, people dying from Fentalyl laced pills, etc. - would take book to list all these.
I had at least two grandfathers that fought in the Civil War from the same family. A father fought for the Confederacy while his sons for the Union. It must have been wild. General Lee was a 3rd cousin, Sherman oddly an 11th Cousin. Don't know much about Sherman but yes he seemed to be a more brutal military force & therefore "superior"leader.
"Brutal" is the operative word; I remember I was visiting a girlfriend in Virginia, and her grandmother got one look at me, and asked if I were a "yankee" - she kept referring thereafter to the "war of northern aggression" in my hearing. Only later did I realize she meant the Civil War. I had a lot of learnin' to do . Truly.
I was born in Berkeley, CA and have had a great deal to learn after moving to Nashville. Have wandered the battle fields of Franklin with twin 7 year old grandsons and answered their interminable questions.
Off-topic, but anyone with an interest in the American Civil War should go to the Antietam battlefield. The guides are excellent and it is easy to visualize that battle where more American soldiers were killed in one day than in any other.
Far be it from me to argue with my Internet friends; but, without resorting to posting a definition of the word "superior", I challenge anyone who thinks that Sherman (or even Grant) was a leader superior to Robert E. Lee. While Sherman has gone down in history primarily for his brutality and inhumane treatment of his enemies (He famously starved the native Americans into submission by ordering the destruction of the buffalo herds they depended on for their survival) and for his destruction of their way of life, Lee was beloved by his troops and, with the exception of Gettysburg, was a master of strategy.
Omar Bradley was a great general and so was Patton. Who was "superior"? In a popularity contest, Bradley would win, hands down. On the battlefield? Patton.
William Tecumseh Sherman was no less a monster than Genghis Khan or Mohammed.
Yes, we have much of both brutality and compassion in our collective inheritance. Robert E Lee always seemed like a compassionae type within the context of his times but yes, William Sherman certainly had his epically brutal side. War breeds such monsters - so, apparently, does the Corporatocracy. Live for peace, die for peace.
And long before the Civil War we had rigidly colonialist European Corporations running the show. While studying family history I found so many great great??? Grandfathers in East India Company etc it’s sometimes overwhelming to my psyche. This madness must stop here. The buck, as they say, stops with us. We fail to stop it and our children, grandchildren will suffer unimaginably. As Bob Dylan said - “I Think it must be up to me.”
Or as my seven year old grandson asked yesterday as we discussed imagination as applied to the video games he loves and alternatively to reality. “Are you telling me that everything we see is from our imagination?” This followed a long discussion as to where the plutonium he employs online to build his game monster came from & how architecture springs from imagination to the real world. Plutonium of course springs from a long process but first occurs naturally. This instigated a long discussion about the source of chemical & mineral constituents resulting from geochemical and stellar processes. We pointed out that he himself was made of “stardust”. This appeared to reassure him.
And yes, the essence of education is of course conversation. We treasure each opportunity to engage this way and love how our 7 yr old grandsons move so deftly between virtual and reality. Whether it's about football strategy, power over adults, drumming, or philosophical topics they fire zingers. They use the word "Actually" to begin every statement.
My lonely view is the fascists are those people that benefit the most by the system. They use the government to monopolize and mandate their corporate interests. The Nazis were just a political hammer they used to break apart the small landholders to monopolize land production.
Hmmm. I like your comment. I have further defined these people as fascist collaborators (those who get paid), and useful idiots (mostly Marxists who dance to the sound of the coins jingling in the pockets of the fascists as they walk by). And since they make the rules, and since we live by those rules, you have a point.
Excellent, and very true.
And remember, throughout WWII, Fascism was rapidly becoming the de facto mode of government in the west; in the US, for example, the mobilization of the nation for WWII meant the creation of an immense administrative state that—rather than seizing and controlling industries directly—worked through a complex of board membership to achieve proxy public control. Which is technically fascism (the so-called "third way.")
This ^^ was even touted at the time as the future and ideal model of all governance; and as it was staffed by “experts” from academia, it was celebrated in universities and taught to generations of students.
But if they were to work towards fascism -- worldwide and here in the US - they had to rid "fascism" of the associations with the almost universally deplored Nazism.
So they recast Nazism—the apotheosis of leftist collectivism—as politically “far Right." And they did this through the introduction of a new political science model that became a bedrock of the field by the mid-20th century. It worked so well it was almost like black magic.
Meanwhile, they marched forward - politically, culturally, educationally - under the new banner of that distressingly vague term "Progressivism."
But if we were misled about the nature of fascism—and imagining it would come jackbooted and goose stepping into history again—how would we recognize it when it came?
What if it arrived this time masquerading as simulated kindness?
For the essential thing was always that all measures were:”Für Ihre Sicherheit" (“For your safety.”)
So true. There is also the thought that the First Industrial Revolution was marked in part by the American Civil War - now we have yet another possible Civil War marking Klaus Schwab's Fourth Industrial Revolution. This time the Civil War appears to be planetary.
Yes, exactly. And the Civil War was really the first fully industrial /mechanized warfare which made possible truly mass death; the analogue would presumably be that in this "civil war" the technological mode is incredibly sophisticated social media platforms - among other asymmetric networks -- that can and do generate and shape groupthink on a mass scale, and that globally for billions. It almost like a mass spell; and looks unstoppable sometimes.
In the Fall, 2021 edition of the Claremont Review of Books, the esteemed Victor Davis Hanson wrote a review of a new biography of Robert E. Lee. It is Hanson's opinion that Sherman was a superior leader than Lee. Yes, the total war waged against the South ended the American Civil War. But at what cost? Putin, if anything, is pulling his punches in Ukraine and the New World Order is aghast, horrified, and anxious to kill him.
Excellent comment. At what cost indeed; some might say the nation, the Constitution, and any kind of civilized order. In addition to the horror and loss of life, the repercussions were immense at every level.
If it weren't for the massive economic/monetary dislocations that followed, would we saddled with a "Federal" Reserve? I wonder.
The globalists are insanely hypocritical: https://mistermicawber.substack.com/p/engineering-selective-outrage-about?r=110wl5&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webhttps://mistermicawber.substack.com/p/engineering-selective-outrage-about?r=110wl5&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Still wondering why exactly the Federal Reserve building in DC is surrounded by chain link fencing. Quite obviously at the very least we have been taken over by hostile forces. No doubt. It’s been in the works for awhile.
In my opinion (and we're getting into murky territory here, ha!) the "war" has already been won. "Bidan" is not really in control; he's just a bad actor. The District has been enemy-occupied territory; and is now essentially a war zone.
Yes, you’re 100% correct and we’re well into it. Biden isn’t even capable of caring for himself. A media defined actual shooting war hasn’t been declared but there is more than enough fog of war to go around, battles being fought, people dying from Fentalyl laced pills, etc. - would take book to list all these.
I had at least two grandfathers that fought in the Civil War from the same family. A father fought for the Confederacy while his sons for the Union. It must have been wild. General Lee was a 3rd cousin, Sherman oddly an 11th Cousin. Don't know much about Sherman but yes he seemed to be a more brutal military force & therefore "superior"leader.
"Brutal" is the operative word; I remember I was visiting a girlfriend in Virginia, and her grandmother got one look at me, and asked if I were a "yankee" - she kept referring thereafter to the "war of northern aggression" in my hearing. Only later did I realize she meant the Civil War. I had a lot of learnin' to do . Truly.
I was born in Berkeley, CA and have had a great deal to learn after moving to Nashville. Have wandered the battle fields of Franklin with twin 7 year old grandsons and answered their interminable questions.
Off-topic, but anyone with an interest in the American Civil War should go to the Antietam battlefield. The guides are excellent and it is easy to visualize that battle where more American soldiers were killed in one day than in any other.
Far be it from me to argue with my Internet friends; but, without resorting to posting a definition of the word "superior", I challenge anyone who thinks that Sherman (or even Grant) was a leader superior to Robert E. Lee. While Sherman has gone down in history primarily for his brutality and inhumane treatment of his enemies (He famously starved the native Americans into submission by ordering the destruction of the buffalo herds they depended on for their survival) and for his destruction of their way of life, Lee was beloved by his troops and, with the exception of Gettysburg, was a master of strategy.
Omar Bradley was a great general and so was Patton. Who was "superior"? In a popularity contest, Bradley would win, hands down. On the battlefield? Patton.
William Tecumseh Sherman was no less a monster than Genghis Khan or Mohammed.
Yes, we have much of both brutality and compassion in our collective inheritance. Robert E Lee always seemed like a compassionae type within the context of his times but yes, William Sherman certainly had his epically brutal side. War breeds such monsters - so, apparently, does the Corporatocracy. Live for peace, die for peace.
Notice how every modern war seems to advance the Statist agenda? Randolph Bourne in the early 20th century wrote: "War is the health of the State."
Yep. Around and around we go.
And long before the Civil War we had rigidly colonialist European Corporations running the show. While studying family history I found so many great great??? Grandfathers in East India Company etc it’s sometimes overwhelming to my psyche. This madness must stop here. The buck, as they say, stops with us. We fail to stop it and our children, grandchildren will suffer unimaginably. As Bob Dylan said - “I Think it must be up to me.”
Or as my seven year old grandson asked yesterday as we discussed imagination as applied to the video games he loves and alternatively to reality. “Are you telling me that everything we see is from our imagination?” This followed a long discussion as to where the plutonium he employs online to build his game monster came from & how architecture springs from imagination to the real world. Plutonium of course springs from a long process but first occurs naturally. This instigated a long discussion about the source of chemical & mineral constituents resulting from geochemical and stellar processes. We pointed out that he himself was made of “stardust”. This appeared to reassure him.
Yup about history, the corporation, and the East India Company - a long and very wild history; which, as you know, ain't over yet.
Sounds like a superb conversation with your grandson. He learned all that from conversation; not from virtual realities.
What is the essence of education but conversation?
Yes indeedy - it's far from over as yet, lol.
And yes, the essence of education is of course conversation. We treasure each opportunity to engage this way and love how our 7 yr old grandsons move so deftly between virtual and reality. Whether it's about football strategy, power over adults, drumming, or philosophical topics they fire zingers. They use the word "Actually" to begin every statement.
Lovely. I need not tell you how fortunate you are. Thanks!
Yes, and we stay grounded in gratitude. Their parents however are always in a state about the two warring wizards.
Yes, that's the key. "Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
We're trying our best to stay grounded too; and to not get sucked up into the psychosis vortex along with nearly everyone else.
Your grandson surely picks up on that (the parents being in a "state") - but you can be his grounding rod!
We certainly try. Lots of complex emotions in families. Like everyone we do our fair share of complaining, lol.
My lonely view is the fascists are those people that benefit the most by the system. They use the government to monopolize and mandate their corporate interests. The Nazis were just a political hammer they used to break apart the small landholders to monopolize land production.
Yet many who benefit are not fascists. Those who promote fascism are all fascists.
Hmmm. I like your comment. I have further defined these people as fascist collaborators (those who get paid), and useful idiots (mostly Marxists who dance to the sound of the coins jingling in the pockets of the fascists as they walk by). And since they make the rules, and since we live by those rules, you have a point.