"Every dot was connected"

I'm not rambling, I'm a genius

Welcome new subscribers. I’ve been finishing the book, Traumatized and suffering from the aftermath of a summer of family tragedy, but normally, I publish more lighthearted material here. Behind the paywall, you get Zoom invitations and links to materials we discuss during monthly discussion groups that began as a series of lectures on the Frankfurt School and its readings of Freud. We might go back there at some point since I am taking their culture industry take needs to be supplemented by a better reading of class formation.

I also put stuff behind the paywall that will drive the radlibs crazy: if you want to engage with my ideas, you have subscribe. Most of those trolls don’t, but it is a sad thing that we all censor ourselves these days when it comes to the hot button issue of our times. I was asked to debate a paleoconservative about “wokeness” and the conservative critique of Cultural Marxism, but I turned it down not because I don’t like controversy, but because intellectual conservatives are more open minded than your average radical liberal abolish everything person and I hate to end up and let’s agree to disagree on Marxism. It just doesn’t seem worth it. I never use the word “woke” because I think it is a grossly inadequate term to describe liberal authoritarian surveillant identity pluralism. The other thing about LASIP is that its practitioners are notoriously lacking in conviction so once you’ve successfully attacked one of their precious ideals and you think you’ve won, they concede and move one to another, even more destructive and managerial obfuscation of class society and exploitation.

Anyhoo, Donald Trump has been giving us the vibes of a frustrated graduate student angry at her peer reviewers.

He said in a recent interview, “Every dot was connected.” and something like, I weave many strands together. Wait for the end of my speeches, because that’s where a beautiful braid appears.

You see these random dots, but they’re all connected. His cadence is strangely poetic, even as it works to dehumanize immigrants by accusing them of kidnapping and eating Fido. It is just one strand on Trump’s gorgeous loom.

Harris wants to be the candidate of change, apolitical change, though. “We have to turn the page.” On what exactly?

It’s time for me to log off, but welcome new subscribers. Thanks to those of you who have already watched my appearance on Joshua Citarella’s Doomscroll. If you haven’t, I lay out the thinking behind Traumatized, along with some dots, all of which I connect, except for the stuff about the Manosphere and the gender of the authoritarian liberal formation promoted the Professional Managerial Class.

Every dot was not connected — yet….