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JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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Or that the train is the one at fault. 40% of Trains strike their spouses, you know.
What a coincidence, I’m stocking up on concrete.
6·3 months agoLeftist Skynet.
We gotta recruit a college football players from somewhere.
This is totally gonna happen to Florida.
4·4 months agoSomeone posted this video a while back that I’ve done everyonce in a while and it seemed to help with my lower back and nerve pain. Unfortunately, I’m attached to some other workout vids so I don’t do this one enough.
Foundation Training with Dr Goodman.
Ah, no, they’re older episodes, but looking at the material conditions behind news media coverage is the sort of thing they do.
Oh, lol, no worries. It’s more to satisfy my own anal organization. I’ve got limited space so any time I add a book I’ve gotta rethink how they should be grouped. DoE just happens to be one of the few I know very little about, but mythology and enlightenment was my wheelhouse for a while so I tend to place it within that context. Thanks for the insight!
Word. It’s currently with mythology.😅 Now I’ll spend the rest of the evening arguing with myself over it.
May I ask a silly question of you? I have a copy of Dialectics of Enlightenment, but haven’t read it yet. Would you say it belongs more on the shelf with my philosophy books with stuff by Marcuse and Simone de Beauvoir or like mythology books by Joseph Campbell and Riane Eisler?
lol, yep. awesome. You can find all these on libgen. Btw, for media analysis there’s also the Citations Needed Podcast. Their episodes they did on Bill Gates a while ago are quality and just the tip of the iceberg.
It’s a decent book, but Mayer kinda lets the Dems off the hook. I typically recommend it grouped with Thomas Franks’ Listen Liberal: Or Whatever Happened to the Party of the Left as he covers that pretty much right up until 2014 or so the dems were fully on board with much of what the Kochs were doing. The Kochs were actually on the board of the Democratic Leadership Council which helped get Bill Clinton elected back in the 90’s. I usually also recommend Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean as well, as it expands on the history behind neoliberalism’s father of Public Choice Economics James M. Buchanan ( a real ghoul, one of the assholes invited to advise Pinochet after Allende’s demise) and his involvement with the Kochs. But that may be a bit farther out of the wheelhouse of what you’re looking for. They’re just 3 books that go really well together as my holy trinity of covering US neoliberalism… Actually, you might wanna check them out, as one of the big things Democracy in Chains covers is the way Public Choice Economics is used to present privatization to people in ways that we see very heavy in the news media, while Frank covers how media uses virtue signaling to present a illusion of politics. Maybe, idk, your call.!
If you find this article relevant to your interest, I’d recommend checking out all three books.
Last two things, on the topic of Community Building, check out work by Mark Lakeman.
Badass democracy - reclaiming the public commons: Mark Lakeman at TEDxSantaCruz - YouTube
So I’m looking at my bookshelf now and I’m thinking you’d probably also find Psychopolitics by Byung-Chul Han interesting.
Yeah, problem is a lot of my reading on propaganda and communication was before I de-wormed myself of the ‘communism bad’
, so I don’t have too much else to offer other than lib stuff. I think anything modern you can find on Gramsci’s Cultural Hegemony would probably be the most useful for you.
Oh, okay, I wasn’t sure if you that would work for you or not. Then I would say Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent would be the two big ones. I haven’t found any specific Gramsci books to recommend, I’m afraid. I bought Volume 1 of the Prison Notebooks and found them to be more like notes to self that lacked a lot of context. A bit much for me. If you find something good please pass it along. If you’re willing to move away from strictly ML aspect you may find Dark Money by Jane Mayer interesting in which it explores how the Koch brothers and (other billionaires) shoved their dollars and views into every aspect of USian life, from media to education.
Parenti’s Inventing Reality? Selections from Gramsci?
1·1 year ago
By my estimates, China has only 70 more years until complete and utter collapse!