Billy_T wrote:

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You’ve gotta read that book. I recently finished it and learned a ton. Was going to post about it here.

Really, really good history. Chomsky and Zinn would be proud of Immerwahr.

(I’ve switched things up recently. Used to buy my books. Now I’m checking them out of the library when I can, especially new stuff. But this book is worth purchasing.)

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Yeah i was thinking about ordering his book. Usually i wait awhile until books end up ‘used’ on the net and i can get them for two or three bux.

But then, lately I’ve refrained from buying political books. They tend to sit around my house for ages and i never get to them. Too many. Plus…as i enter the late-stages of my life I find it hard to find ‘reasons’ to cram more political details into my mind. I ask myself “whats the point” in me learning more ‘details’ about the corpor-o-tacracy (or whatever one wants to label it). It doesnt help me any to know more details, really. I already know the basic blueprint of how it works and how it has worked. So is it really the best use of my limited time to learn more ‘details’ of the disgusting biosphere-killing work of the corporotacracy? I mean, its like reading more about Hitler or Stalin. It wouldnt be a bad thing to learn more details of their butchery, but…what is the point? So…thats where I’m at with reading pol books. But watching short vids is different for me. I’ll do that. But a whole book? It doesnt seem worth my time anymore. Thats a job for young people. (I might buy the book just so i can give it to a young human)

As far as what the writer is doing? Great stuff. Zinn-level stuff. (which is high praise for me)
I have always known that I knew very very little about the ‘territories’. A much needed addition to general readership american ‘pol lit’.

His name just appeared on the side of my youtube screen not long ago. Thats how i stumbled across him.

Mainly nowadays, when i want to read, at night, i find myself drawn more to stories, novels. I’m reading “A People’s Future Of The United States,” and an autobio by the ornery comedian Paul Mooney. Mooney was Richard Pryor’s mentor back in the day. He said Richard really spent a lot of time reading Malcolm X’s writings. He understood radicalism very well. But politics came second to cocaine for Richard Pryor. He loved drugs. Loved’em. Another leftist wrecked by drugs.

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zn wrote:

From the wiki…

The final girl has been observed in many films, including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, Alien, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. The term was coined by Carol J. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992).

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I have that book. I ‘think’ i have it cause you recommended it a decade or so ago, on a board in a distant galaxy.

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Penn’s book:https://www.amazon.com/Bob-Honey-Who-Just-Stuff/dp/1501189042/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sean+penn+book&qid=1553712974&s=books&sr=1-1

“It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it’s true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book.” (Salman Rushdie)

“…NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: It’s hard. We have so much inequality that everything both in housing and in schools is the extremes and there are a handful of truly integrated schools but that’s not the experience in most of the schools. The inequality makes it even harder. I write about how black poor schools are deprived systematically of resources and then you’re asking someone who has resources to put their kid in a school that I’ve just said doesn’t have resources. That inequality makes it difficult and also makes it convenient. Then you can say it’s not that I don’t want to but this school is just not actually good, right. It’s those two things when you have such inequality in a system and integration becomes even harder.

CHRIS HAYES: It’s also because, what I find maddening about it too is that the structure, I’ve talked about this on the podcast in the context of housing, right. The structure is sort of invisible to you, it’s just there and then you walk around making these individual choices of whether a citizen or as a consumer and you unilaterally can’t overcome the structure. For instance, in New York you as a white person you can move into a majority black neighborhood. You’re going to bring with that all sorts of different… it does, right? The structure is still there. It has to be a collective political project to undo it. It has to be a collective…

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: Work to undo it.

CHRIS HAYES: Yeah.

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: What I always say is, the inequality is systemic, but it is also held up by individual choices.

CHRIS HAYES: Right….”

Yeah, that was good. A lot of these comix are really good on some subjects…and then face-plantingly-bad on others. I’ve noticed a lot of bad stuff on the me-too movement, etc.

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…oh and check out the 48:15 mark or so. Where he talks about a new study concerning brain waves. He called the results ‘astonishing’. They sliced a brain in half, created a gap, and the neurons on one side “nevertheless, was able to communicate with the others without direct contact…”