Hello,
Thanks Brian for the snapshot history lesson; what seems to be glossed
over in your letter is this salient point: "Not only in California, but
across the world there are new oligarchies who dispose (of us) more or
less as they please. Unlike the student movements of 2009, I don't think
this thing is going to fall in some passionate spontaneous coming
insurrection." Precisely, and exactly what kind of
planning/organizing/conceptualizing is necessary (or possible) not
simply as a defense against the OS of a corporate totalitarianism but to
envision and "plan" a new trajectory of possibilities altogether? If we
can't, decisively, move beyond the Democrats vs. Republicans paradigm
then we can rest assured that the Google buses will just keep coming (to
a bus stop near you).
best
allan
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