I agree with Matt. Watch the videos of Bret's encounter with those"students". They were not interested in "being heard", they were pumped up to smack down a faculty member based on ignorance and misinformation about what the issue actually was. I've been in such gatherings myself and it is overwhelmingly a phenomenon of mob behavior - he…
I agree with Matt. Watch the videos of Bret's encounter with those"students". They were not interested in "being heard", they were pumped up to smack down a faculty member based on ignorance and misinformation about what the issue actually was. I've been in such gatherings myself and it is overwhelmingly a phenomenon of mob behavior - headless and thus brainless, moved by emotion that whipsaws through impressionable children and achieves nothing useful, ever.
The basic framework of bourgeois institutions is one of state power, and this includes at least accredited and credentialed institutions like universities and colleges. Hence the focus of the contending parties at Evergreen and in similar confrontations on power, in this case through shouting down and later terrorizing the opposition. This response to oppression is to become the oppressor. Obviously, you will not get rid of oppression in this way, even if you ''win''.
I suggest people try to seek out different, non-coercive modes of organization and action. I am pretty sure you won't find them in corporations and other state institutions, although you may have to sneak through their corridors for awhile to survive. Ultimately, you do have the power to do something different.
I like that. I like that a lot. It gets much closer to what I'm trying to say than anything I've said. So much of what we're yakking about is just more noise, masquerading as thoughtfulness and intelligence. The story is much bigger than the stories we're presented. While all of it does not take the form of what current hipdom considers a hot take, it all feels like a hot take to me. We'll know what happened in several years, and all prestidigitation disguised as news...is noise.
I agree with Matt. Watch the videos of Bret's encounter with those"students". They were not interested in "being heard", they were pumped up to smack down a faculty member based on ignorance and misinformation about what the issue actually was. I've been in such gatherings myself and it is overwhelmingly a phenomenon of mob behavior - headless and thus brainless, moved by emotion that whipsaws through impressionable children and achieves nothing useful, ever.
The basic framework of bourgeois institutions is one of state power, and this includes at least accredited and credentialed institutions like universities and colleges. Hence the focus of the contending parties at Evergreen and in similar confrontations on power, in this case through shouting down and later terrorizing the opposition. This response to oppression is to become the oppressor. Obviously, you will not get rid of oppression in this way, even if you ''win''.
I suggest people try to seek out different, non-coercive modes of organization and action. I am pretty sure you won't find them in corporations and other state institutions, although you may have to sneak through their corridors for awhile to survive. Ultimately, you do have the power to do something different.
I like that. I like that a lot. It gets much closer to what I'm trying to say than anything I've said. So much of what we're yakking about is just more noise, masquerading as thoughtfulness and intelligence. The story is much bigger than the stories we're presented. While all of it does not take the form of what current hipdom considers a hot take, it all feels like a hot take to me. We'll know what happened in several years, and all prestidigitation disguised as news...is noise.
I still enjoy it though. MT's joint is righteous.
Weinstein is a one man mob.
STFU