Motherfucking Nazis, and Sympathizers.

 I have decided it is perfectly fair to call any flat out Bozo supporter a Nazi.  In similar reasoning, it is fair to me to call anyone who is sympathetic to bozo a Nazi Sympathizer. 

To be fair.  I have been calling Republicans Nazis for decades.  Back in the day when only the marginal extremist fascist minded ones would say say out loud, they wanted to do mass deportations, and use the military on American citizens of the other party.  But now that Bozo, the GOP candidate for POTUS is saying shit like that at his rallys and in interviews? 

The previously fringy Nazi shit is now mainstream GOP policy position.

All Bozo supporters are Nazis.

All those who are sympathetic to him are Nazi Sympathizers.

Hey.  Owl.  You are very sympathetic to bozo.  I have not seen you raising any alarms about his plan to de qualify legal immigrants, and shove them in camps pending mass deportations.  Or criticize his plan to unleash the military against perceived enemies in the other political party.

He is spewing pure Nazi level ideas.  That makes him a Nazi.  And you are sympathetic to him.  And not opposed.  Just saying.

 

About that VP Debate. And the Whiny Yale Lawyer.

 

Konspiracy Kids

 So when the charges came down against NYC mayor Adams.  I was a little suspicious about them.  Not really the charges but how the investigation even started?  But I was not going to read the indictment unless paid to.  It's a lawyer thing.  Sometimes I will read shit if I am interested enough.  Sometimes I take the, pay me to do it, position. 

I don't think he is beyond graft. But US Attorney offices are political to start.  Political appointees hire staff.  And the job attracts ambitious lawyers.  And taking down the high and mighty as a US Atty has launched many political careers. 

Never mind FBI is not a totally objective agency.  Shit.  I remember hearing about Giuliani having some still then, loyal buddies on the NY office a few years back.  But we shall see.  

PS.  I read some where that one of the AUSAs on the case is a former Kavanaugh clerk, who not only signed the we ex clerks endorse him,  letter.  Back during that contentious confirmation process.  Oh.  And the bitch already got dinged by a Fed judge on a public sector corruption case, for prosecutoral overreach. 

So even if what the meme says is often mostly true.  Sometimes, having inside knowledge will at least make someone very cynical about some shit.

And if there is anything I am cynical about, it is where humans and power over other humans is at issue.

A Rare Moment of Praise for The Owl, (but zeroed out.)

 I respect what she said about that racist movie, made by racists, called, "Am I Racist?"

They are racists because, only a racist would think it would be a good idea to make a movie making fun of racism.  To start a project to belittle anti racism, is to support actual racism, actually.  Sometimes life is that simple!  Sure, they would say they were going after some hustlers  and well meaning but wrong minded people who just happen to see racism everywhere  (it is, actually.  Said broadly without going on a tangent.)

So I criticize her for putting money in those racist's pockets!  Bad Owl.  Very bad!

"That sums up what bothered me about the movie. The filmmaker had an agenda, so I couldn't trust him to be fair to the people he was tricking. And of course, tricking them itself is unfair. The fact that he lured them by paying the fees they demanded — including $50,000 for one women — might make some people think they deserved what they got."

But her take is sort of  . . .  objective and reasoned:  But anyone could have come to tat conclusion with out watching the movie after paying money for a ticket and thereby supporting the racists who made it.

So the financial support for the project cancels out any props for her take on it.

Confession.   I am someone who was talking about the need for antiracism, more than three decades ago.  I do not appreciate the mission of attacking DEI and all of the anti racist endeavors.  Some people might think I am being unfair in calling the idea and motivation behind this movie to have been and remains,  mostly to "publish" racist propaganda.  But there is more to it than that.  They are making some money on it.  Come to think of it.  This is the major takeaway from the project.

On group of grifters set out to "expose" another alleged group of alleged grifters. 

But the targets are in it at least partly, if not greatly, for a higher purpose.  After all.  If the anti racists succeed.  Then they are going to have to find something else to do.  But the actual efforts by the people behind this project show, there still are way the fuck too many racists in America.  Accuse them of being in it for the money all ya like.  But the anti racists are not going to run out of racism to fight, any time soon.

So the movie ultimately proves the need for anti racists.  

I am not endorsing Marxism, but

 Way I like to say it is.  During the hey day of Atlantic Caribbean piracy, the main difference between Royal Navy and the pirates was, the RN had better clothes and hygiene. 

Not to just pick on the RN.  Colonialism was the longest time of the greatest extent, crime against humanity.  Actually.

She is a Bespoke Car Wreck. On to "The Crisis of Culture."

 I am only a couple weeks into detox from Glenn Loury and his side kick, John McWhorter's sometimes joint video chats. I call them both Black white supremacist sympathizers, enablers.  Because any Black man who buys into  the baseless, infantile, and ignorant lies about "western" cultural superiority is behaving exactly like white supremacist sympathizers, enablers would. And therefore have earned that description.  But wait.  There is more coming about idiots who don't really understand culture to come!

One of the reasons I go to the Owl's blog is, she is one of those on-paper smart people, who often says such unintentionally funny shit, I want to see  how she is embarrassing herself, nearly daily, but I do take breaks from her shit.  But usually, it is like back in the day when I used to read a daily tabloid newspaper, and had to check my favorite funnies.  But oftentimes, she is just tiresome.  Like today.  Not so much because of the article that caught her eye and posted about.  But tiresome because she went into grammar/syntax Nazi mode.  And the only thing more tiresome than a spelling Nazi  could be a grammar/syntax Nazi.  Anyway . . .

It was some review of sorts about some social commentary book, by some guy called,"The Crisis of Culture."  He's French.  That flavor of French.  The kind of tiresome Frenchman who has the time and inclination to bemoan the mash up of cultures.  

I have an earned degree in Theatre.  That is a variant of an academic program in culture, as Theatre even more that lit, is the original human storytelling tradition.  Our stories are greatly a reflection of and a record of our cultures.  So I call bullshit on the hypothesis.  All cultures we pay any attention to, have been mashed up with other cultures, going back thousands of years. That is an easily verifiable fact.   And you need not earn a degree in Theatre, World Lit, ot World History to learn that factoid! Anyone who denies that is a practiced, ignorant fool.   Now let me really digress.

I have been seeing reports that the "posh" British accent is actually a modern recent thing.  And as well, that the Elizabethan era accent should have sounded more like American English than the posh one.  Marvellous!  Just another fine example of the stupid shit people think they know, but is flat out wrong!

Anyway, I skipped the article she posted, and googled the scholar, Oliver Roy.  and found a critique.

From that:  

"The Crisis of Culture is therefore best read as an insightful and often brilliant theoretical framework that can fall apart when applied to the specific human actions it is meant to explain. To understand why old systems and cultures have become pathologized, it does not suffice to claim that they have simply disappeared, or exist only as innocuous folklorème. They are still with us, even if only in the guise of radicalism—calling for performative action."

Whatever, Trevor.  And by saying that, I am being deliberately, partially dismissive of that guy, too.  In this critique, as well as the book, the multi headed beast called appropriation, rears up.  I am not going long on that shit.  But since I approach these matters from the POV, that before America was a melting pot, Western Europe was.  And before Western Europe was. the Mid East was.  I will move on to the really important question, where the international version of culture wars are concerned.

Which faction is the most tiresome?  Cultural purists who bemoan the  mashing up of cultural shit, or the other kind, who lose their shit when ever some minor facet of "their" culture gets used by other humans?

I think both are insufferable.   Actually.   But I am a big fan of The Silk Road Ensemble, and Rhiannon Giddens is my Musical Warrior Goddess.

rhiannongiddens.com

silkroad.org

 

Like A Toddler Playing With It's Own Poo

 I don't get the appeal of Joe Rogan. Like the text on the image says.  Some people find him curious, apparently in an admirable way.  Now me?  I see his curiousity like an absent-minded toddler playing with it's own poo.  It's not an "intellectual" kind of curiousity.  It's more about not knowing anything about anything.  Toddlers know nothing about anything.

We know his podcast is popular.  And he is is rich beyond reason, given his thin talent.  And he is younger and more fit than I am.  But.  I just don't get it.  But my curiosity had me reading the NY Times starting in sixth grade.  And as well, digging in on the 18th century philosophers.

I don't say that as a brag.  I am one of those nerds.  I can talk at length about Age of Enlightenment theory, and pivot to reciting, or at least remarking about my favorite Monty Python sketches.

Oh.  The reason for visiting this subject?  There is some untrustworthy article on the Atlantic, written by some transphobic Brit chick, worshipping Rogan and how, allegedly he is remaking Austin because he has a new comedy club there?

I tend to distrust on line reports about trends, unless being reported by known cool kids with a track record of being ahead of the culture curve.  I am not saying there is not some retro resurgence of 70s style misogynistic, unfunny content bubbling up, hither and yon.    I am calling bullshit on the pedestal placing, here.

My long, by now, time remark is.  There is a market for that.  I am not that market.  And just because someone on the interwebnetubes says something is the new shit, doesn't mean it really is the shit.  It likely is just shit.

Rare edit to add:

I have read the whole article.  She never got to interview Rogan.  He don't do that.  She was less worshipful than I thought, based on the chunks I saw this morning. But ya know . . . 

Admitting my bias.  Some thing she did not do.  I have issues with normalizing conspiracy theories, and or the loons who spew that kind of shit.  But to be a little fair.  She did highlight that the Rogan bros are more likely to trust individuals than institutions.  Sure. We should not put total faith in institutions.  But we should put no faith at all in what inexperienced, un credentialed bros have to say.  Fuck that.

And speaking of bros.  I really dislike people as a baseline.  But I really dislike "bros." 

I will end there, but to say.  It's not that human stupidity is greater planet-wide now, than in the past.  But some idiot bros or babes can get fame and fortune, on line.  Without having any appreciable draw.  But for others thinking:

They think like I do.  They are like me.  Let me give that person my time, and money, and support.

What a fucked up species!

A large chunk of it, seems.