There’s a lot of folks outside of the country who are urging all the wrong things. I get they’re anxious but you have articulated why we’re on the right course.
Dino, today's essay of yours has helped keep me grounded. Still angry at recent and current events, and that we seemingly have to triage Venezuela, Minnesota, and Greenland, but grounded.
I'll do my best to balance the anger with the grounding, and there'll be more. I'll need to read this a second and probably a third time or more. You're so right, and you have a special talent for naming things and putting events in their proper order and perspective.
Let's continue to compare notes and bring our life experience to bear in all this.
Dino, I really appreciate your article today. I also am an avid follower of Chris Hedges. So, I was very interested to see your essay pivot off of his work, and in the way that it does.
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Personally, also, I am strong advocate of non-violent resistance, and I am pleased to see you present a case for how and why (and, by your reckoning,
when) non-violent resistance is not just a moral choice, but a skillful one.
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I was surprised, however, at the implication you seem to hint at that -- that Hedges would advocate for any path other than non-violence. Yes: it is true that he has sounded – and continues to sound – the alarm about the accelerated advance of totalitarianism in the United States, and I have heard him advocate for resistance, but I have never heard him advocate for violence. Quite the contrary, in fact. Have you?
If it appeared that I was implying Chris was advocating anything other than non-violence, then I apologize for the unintended implication.
The chief purpose of my commentary was to define the space between pressurization and civic collapse.
There is a tendency in the public to misinterpret the warning of those who have lived the terror of civic collapse and subsequent violence. It can accelerate (in the mind of the public) the interpretation of recognition—> preperation —> Action —> consequence.
There is also a tendency to collapse unrelated conditions into a logical flow. Resistance does not of necessity precede violence. Violence, rebellion and partisan operations are seperate and unrelated.
There’s a lot of folks outside of the country who are urging all the wrong things. I get they’re anxious but you have articulated why we’re on the right course.
Dino, today's essay of yours has helped keep me grounded. Still angry at recent and current events, and that we seemingly have to triage Venezuela, Minnesota, and Greenland, but grounded.
I'll do my best to balance the anger with the grounding, and there'll be more. I'll need to read this a second and probably a third time or more. You're so right, and you have a special talent for naming things and putting events in their proper order and perspective.
Let's continue to compare notes and bring our life experience to bear in all this.
.
Dino, I really appreciate your article today. I also am an avid follower of Chris Hedges. So, I was very interested to see your essay pivot off of his work, and in the way that it does.
.
Personally, also, I am strong advocate of non-violent resistance, and I am pleased to see you present a case for how and why (and, by your reckoning,
when) non-violent resistance is not just a moral choice, but a skillful one.
.
I was surprised, however, at the implication you seem to hint at that -- that Hedges would advocate for any path other than non-violence. Yes: it is true that he has sounded – and continues to sound – the alarm about the accelerated advance of totalitarianism in the United States, and I have heard him advocate for resistance, but I have never heard him advocate for violence. Quite the contrary, in fact. Have you?
.
If it appeared that I was implying Chris was advocating anything other than non-violence, then I apologize for the unintended implication.
The chief purpose of my commentary was to define the space between pressurization and civic collapse.
There is a tendency in the public to misinterpret the warning of those who have lived the terror of civic collapse and subsequent violence. It can accelerate (in the mind of the public) the interpretation of recognition—> preperation —> Action —> consequence.
There is also a tendency to collapse unrelated conditions into a logical flow. Resistance does not of necessity precede violence. Violence, rebellion and partisan operations are seperate and unrelated.