Forty Acres and a Mule

—The soldiers wanted the slaves to be free and in a frontier court declared them to live as fiefs on the land repatriated to their labor. —this is on general strike stretched out for our rights and withering slang couldn’t defeat us. —but it is also a covenant of the American way, a dream long promised, never denied, to all: a castle with all the rights: are you the technology that makes people’s lives better?: Yes I am; this is one of my projects.

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Narrative discourse

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/lee-chatfield-corruption-case-questionable-spending-strip-club-bill There’s too many values and thoughts that I share with Simon so it’s impossible for me to respond to everything he writes however in this case I think it going to result in nothing but good. We’re seeing this classic narrative arc of a progressive prosecutor who does get some things done but the last years of their term descend into some sort of madness as they get stuck in the mud. Progressive people really don’t like prosecutors; that’s my analysis. At least they don’t like prosecutors who work for the state no matter how progressive they are. Unfortunately I both think this and admire other progress made from the AG’s office from a distance, which is confusing. I think there’s layers to it. I can resist conservatism with a progressive prosecutor in a large group but I can’t agree on the law with them, and too often not ideolog...

You can't be neutral on a moving train

Peter switched sides but I didn’t. You can’t be neutral on a moving train. Ever since the beginning that was the beginning I have had this justified true belief that as long as money and power oppress the masses one cannot be neutral, not on a moving train, not when evil forces collude to pull power from We The People. Yet history is kind because due to different circumstances we both ended up on the same team at the end of his life and the beginning of my work; pro-democracy, anti-tyranny, anti-fascism. But he had his superstitions, and they clashed with his choice to see power as money—this being nonetheless interesting to be a general and an economist, the world moved on, or should we say we did not see the world in the same perspectival way. I am pleased to report that the world is much different now than it was, most for the better but some for the weirder, and, furthermore that confusion and the intellectual fog of war has been the main limiting facto...

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