Comments on: California nightmare http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/02/11/california-dreaming/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:58:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/02/11/california-dreaming/#comment-97721 Mike Linksvayer Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:07:21 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/02/11/california-dreaming/#comment-97721 <blockquote>Point is: until / unless we shift the concensus there is no political progress.</blockquote> Yep, and that's the point of <a href="http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/02/18/uberfact/" rel="nofollow">Uberfact</a>. But I don't get the direct relevance to this post.

Point is: until / unless we shift the concensus there is no political progress.

Yep, and that’s the point of Uberfact. But I don’t get the direct relevance to this post.

]]> By: Ben Tremblay http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/02/11/california-dreaming/#comment-97668 Ben Tremblay Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:35:26 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/02/11/california-dreaming/#comment-97668 The nut of my "participatory deliberation" stems back to the early 70s ... as a hippie /cum/ peace-keeper I was in uniform when we tumbled a democratically elected government. When I saw how "nice" people tut-tutted I realized the fix was in. Point is: until / unless we shift the concensus there is no political progress. Winning the argument is usually due to some variant of political expedience. The oligarchs know how to win that game. (Hiring clever yuppies to side-track /most /everything// is a tactic that was taught in a special Georgetown University course decades ago. To anyone who's lucid it's just common sense. But in #matrix ... it seems paranoid. I seem paranoid. And unpleasant. So I don't get work. So I slip from "voluntary simplicity" to abject poverty and homelessness. "Economic warfare" is the alternative to assassination. I don't rate assassination. heh) cheers The nut of my “participatory deliberation” stems back to the early 70s … as a hippie /cum/ peace-keeper I was in uniform when we tumbled a democratically elected government. When I saw how “nice” people tut-tutted I realized the fix was in.

Point is: until / unless we shift the concensus there is no political progress. Winning the argument is usually due to some variant of political expedience. The oligarchs know how to win that game. (Hiring clever yuppies to side-track /most /everything// is a tactic that was taught in a special Georgetown University course decades ago. To anyone who’s lucid it’s just common sense. But in #matrix … it seems paranoid. I seem paranoid. And unpleasant. So I don’t get work. So I slip from “voluntary simplicity” to abject poverty and homelessness. “Economic warfare” is the alternative to assassination. I don’t rate assassination. heh)

cheers

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