Thanks. Very helpful.

But still to.be honest, Marx always feels 100% solid to me when explaining capitalism, but on much less solid ground when predicting the future.

I’m currently reading Zizek’s “Less than nothing” and he criticizes Marx for not being Hegelian enough. Resetting my thermostat now

Some of my favorite music today, is odd stuff I found on Napster. Got me into sea chanties

Reading another country’s propaganda helps to make my own country’s propaganda more transparent.

I upvoted you for downvoting the guy who complained about being downvoted.

Seeing the horrors of centuries of capitalist exploitation, and being raised in and still swamped with propaganda that the USA is the model of freedom and liberty despite plain evidence to the contrary right in front of your face, makes a reasonable person wonder if the countries the US government demonizes might be “the good guys” and makes it hard to believe criticism of, for example China, unless the source of that criticism comes from China itself (which admittedly might we’ll be suppressed).

Wealth and capital pours endless resources to attack, belittle and co-opt anything that might threaten its dominance.

Therapy Gary, you are blowing my mind. More “sites of agency” are desperately needed.