Thrilled that my book The Other Enlightenment: Self-estrangement, Race, and Gender is on Australia Institute essential reading list 2023 with Naomi Klein, Yanis V. and others. If we forget history, we rhyme its worse bits, misread & lose the better parts.

"since govt is always corrupt, let's just do it openly now". how liberating!

"He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the future controls the past." George Orwll, 1984

The “Punitive Theater” of Trump’s Plan to Send Immigrants to Guantánamo Bay – Mother Jones. This time, just immigrants not "terrorists", same moral and legal void.

One must bow only in a democracy before the King:

Our Heidy in the white-y is also a Nietzschean, curious about mass sterilization of "low IQ" folk:

@rosscoulthart @FAANews @MattLaslo Folks who expected truth from DJ haven't been paying attention: if it suits, maybe, but it's not really a thing for the post-truth president.

Proud 2b part of upcmg The Long Road to Closing Guantanamo – Ethics Press on Guantanamo, where so much began that hasn't ceased beginning in terms of US lurch FRight. Long rd still.

The Heideggerian neo- is back in the white house, now more basic norms have been successfully exploded (he was remvd in T1.0 for white nationalism). All clear Darren for the second inception.

Greatness awaits, next year ... in Gomorrah: "The Empire Self-Destructs", by @ChrisLynnHedges

"I even think that we should understand – without ceasing to fight it – the error of those who in an excess of despair have asserted their right to dishonour and have rushed into the nihilism of the era." Camus 1957

‘If They Detain Me, Can I Give Your Number to My Children?’

Mussolini 2021 or a techbro, 2025? U decide (the higher level of culture makes it clear, actually). It's time to look at history to understand what is happening: the destruction of all social gains since 1900 in "the land of the free" in line with tried principles and practices.

I just published "A Stoic strategy for responding to Trumpism". Stop disbelieving, take them seriously, like other politicians, and begin preparing what you can do as bad goes to worse.

america first, second, third, over all. So much for the noninterventionist peacenik dictator. Now the world has to suffer through a generation of this idiocy, & Gazans suffer ethnic cleansing from their homeland, immigrants face detention in Cuba & El Salvador. Double plus good.

to the pple who refused to vote Biden on Gaza, please learn from this, if there's ever another election in the US. In a two horse race, don't trust the authoritarian w a proven record of nihilism, for the rest of our sakes pls.

lurid to see the coordination taking place so quickly, inc in the dreaded "left wing media". A sacrificio intellectus before naked power? yes please! who doesn't like the Gleich ...?

problem: perceived lack of govt accountabliity to pple. Solution: unelected billionaire w enormous govt contracts taking over govt accounts. Spot the nonsequiter for 10 points and move to level 2.

Unfortunately in a period where an unelected fool makes Nazi salutes, America awake as a slogan has bad echoes. But pr. time for pple to start saving their republic some years ago. (10) Musk’s USAID Shutdown: ‘This Is What the Beginning of Dictatorship Looks Like’

Vox Pecunia, Vox Dei: turns out Marx was onto something: political and social freedoms being whacked, a Guantanemo for immigrants, does nothing to the animal spirits of the markets. Things are looking good there. Happy GDP, happy life.

Free speech, if you freely say the right things. 'Don’t submit': 'Growing resistance' at FBI as agents balk at Trump loyalty probe. Robust multiparty democracies always have partisan loyalty probes, you know?