Yesterday I observed Substack was somewhat skin to Underground papers. On the other hand it also has an amusing resemblance to BBS and FB. I hoped for deeper discussions and dialogue, a fantasy since those college seminar classes and my cafe days. I am finding for instance mild or even deep disagreement provokes mixed responses depending on the Stack. Not infrequently hostility is provoked from stipulating with reasons why x is not the case from my view. People prefer agreement. Or they prefer only the opinion go unchallenged. Twas the same 30 years ago on BBS and on FB today. Tis true of the Body Politic as well if one is surrounded on all sides by Partisans. Free speech is always unwelcome. Look at Socrates.
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In this case on Substack individual sites not the site entire. FB site entire is scrubbed and policed Just the other day some Covid science piece I posted on FB was slapped with disinfo. I am doing that daily diary for certain. A Newer Journalism harkening back to Montaigne. And his many imitators. So the umbrage taken by a Stack Holder this morning is my complex thought on the Ukraine. Always evolving every fresh but always trying to know the ball players teams and what that means in general. So rather than rah rah Russia I say seems to me that Russia is all in with WEF, but not in our way of being all in. And I drag in Dugin whose new book Great Awakening to Great Reset I enjoyed though not finding him my personal thought leader...Dugin points out the war is between Modernity and Tradition. Modernity seeing everything can be atomized and used by biotech, nanotech, any high tech or low tech but used. Tradition saying no pasaran. I observed that Russia was all in to the modern world. I was essentially told I was not only wrong but the hope and light of the world was found in Vlad. So knowing better but trying to dialogue I politely provide links on Russia and Modern Technology. Then I use Dugin and say that this is the Modernism he condemns. Thus I am in this line agreeing with him, but not agreeing that the Eurasian outcome of a multipolar world is better than now. Precisely because Leninism is Modernism. I add that everyone in the game is therefore Leninist just like Schwab. Biden, BoJo and Vlad. He ridicules the links. I try once more. No listening and now for a second time in about two months I am told to not comment more today and not to come back more or less unless I agree. Hmm. He has a lot of traffic on his site. He posts in areas of curiosity. I think he is Fundamentalist. It is just a curious thing really. Reading Foucault from 1970 lectures at the moment and thinking on processes of thinking in times of Covid and Tyranny. We need a hero. We need a master myth or we are slaves in terror
The Body Politic. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/proxy-war-has-no-exit-strategy