Hidden away, in an ivory laboratory fashioned from the drek of privilege, & other incestuous aberrations of unearned advantage, runts & fuck-ups that would otherwise struggle in life’s natural currents find a way to cheat the deck.
Satan wept! What heinous hell-hole have we hazarded into?What subhuman range of extraordinary sickness, undulating pus & corruptive scum-trawl & human ruin at the basins rock-bottom extremities have we stumbled down?
“After growing up alien in a black-and-white world, we founded the home/land we never had and gave birth to ourselves as Asian Americans – a political identity based in the alternative universe of the Third World. As part of the worldwide revolution, we said puckyooo to racism, to imperialism, to assimilation, to white standards, to a failed democracy [America], to our own internalized boundaries and barriers, to everything that had kept us distanced from out sovereignty of our communal selves. And with this new voice we created a new world. With the power of new conciseness and new language, and ample doses of audacity and naivety, we created a new sense of community and culture with few resources and no experience – because until then we had nothing to lose.”
“The Libertarian fantasy of private companies usurping governments, is, I’m afraid, becoming a reality.“
“Companies are transcending power now.We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If the government shuts down, nothing happens and we all move on, because it just doesn’t matter.” Chamath Palihapitiya – Silicon Valley venture capitalists who’s Social+Capital fund includes Peter Thiel as an investorContinue reading The Internet is Not the Answer (Andrew Keen):→
two days ago, a supra-subcultural cognocenti (GBR Ricardo) abruptly flung over the following reaction/analysis on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, laden with ambiguity & moral morphings regarding the western response & framing … i am printing it in full.