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Jesus Christ and his holy mother help us. It is Monday morning here in Brisbane. The new week has begun and if that was not bad enough I open the List and this. Jung once said that Joyce was swimming in his neuroses while his daughter drowned in them. I think of that every time I read one of Richard's apocalyptic pieces. He is swimming while depressives like me are choking. Ah well. A political point though. I do not think it is useful to see Trump or Bolsonaro as the fulfillment of reactionary desires that have been long repressed, They are both products of failed liberalism and social democracy. Trump is the counter identifier of Obama, while Bolsonaro is the counter identifier of Lula.And the desire is surely relief from the trials of neoliberalism. comaradely Gary On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:54 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Ecological disaster, like "the Bomb", is a figure that demands a > radically new way of thinking, a new language. If, in the case of "the > Bomb", science seemed to have gifted humans mastery over global > annihilation, in the case of ecological apocalypse, it indicates the > limits of human mastery and knowledge. A fundamental crisis, which goes > to the roots of our being on the planet. Why, then, does it result in > such paralysis of thought? Why does it tend to yield only a > reaffirmation of existing choices? Why does it produce such fearful > nihilism, or despairing resignation? Why is it as though the species has > just been given x months to live and reacts by doing everything on its > bucket list: hence, perhaps, partially, the unleashing of long-checked > reactionary desires, from Trump to Bolsonaro? > > full: https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-want-it-23633324 > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
