On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:33 PM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
*> The situation is hopeless.* Maybe, but I sure hope you're wrong! > *> I correspond with someone who is a communist, and have gotten into some > arguments.* I wouldn't be surprised if the Communist you corresponded with was of the academic type. Even though 3 of the 4 greatest monsters of the 20th century, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot were Communist among academics being a Communist is considered to be more respectable than being a Nazi and I have a theory as to why that is so. Academics tend to be bookish and the theoretical basis of communism as seen in "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" may be economic nonsense but it's not obviously evil; I mean who would object to a workers paradise? In practice Communism was evil but in theory it was just stupid, however even in theory the Nazism in "Mein Kampf" with its anti-semitism and master race crap is nauseating. > *> Politics in general is a sort of brain infection that causes neuron to > seize up when any cognitive dissonance occurs,* Like it or not politics is the way humans organize themselves, it got us into a situation where a very unstable TV gameshow host who is far FAR from being a genius (the Moon is part of Mars, vaccines cause autism) has the power to destroy civilization in half an hour on a whim because he has, among other things, the keys to a Trident Nuclear Submarine. Thousands of years of progress could be wiped out in less time than it takes to write an angry Tweet about Bette Midler or Rosie O'Donnell. And like it or not the only thing that can get us out of this mess is yet more politics. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0HARHVh4hBUsRnf6c0gRM1nifxe9U0F7qRxQXGfhHDOA%40mail.gmail.com.
