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A blog about history, ideology, and policy. Millenials, Obama, and the Status Quo. July 4, 2012. As attention shifts from the Republican presidential primaries to Barack Obama’s first term in office, a look at the ideas of writer and critic William Deresiewicz helps explain why Obama was elected, and why the Left shouldn’t have expected anything from him in the first place. Regarding Zionism and Colonialism. July 4, 2012. The language used by anti-Zionists scholars is misleading and inaccurate. It su...
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Wasted Ideology: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hollywood
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Friday, June 21, 2013. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hollywood. In a piece of abject film “criticism”, Connor Kilpatrick, managing editor of Jacobin, has declared “I Love Man of Steel. And I’m Not Sorry.” The fact that the review starts with a defense of Zizek’s defense of 300,. But this paranoiac anti-Snyder left is only the first straw man Kilpatrick creates—he attacks critics of Man of Steel. In the lefty blogosphere, I’ve seen a few complaints about Man of Steel. 8217;s tie-in campaign with...
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Wasted Ideology: November 2013
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Saturday, November 16, 2013. The Law of Gravity. Is both an incredibly useful, interesting and worthwhile film, and one of the most terrible movies I've seen in a long time. It is, without a doubt, the most beautiful and graceful use of 3D I've ever encountered: It feels like the camera is floating and spinning around in outer space and its long choreographed takes, though none come near as breathtaking as that one shot in Children of Men,. I watched the film with my partner-in-crime Sophie. In fact, mos...
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Wasted Ideology: April 2013
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Saturday, April 20, 2013. The day after the bombing, an official candlelight vigil saw 1000 people mourning in Boston Common. After the reports of Dzokhar in a pool of his own blood, seven, eight times that number came to the Common to celebrate. They danced, chanting "BPD" "BPD" "BPD" "USA" "USA" "USA". Don't go outside. Don't open your door for anyone except police.". Do you see them celebrating, do you see them cheering for his capture, do you see them celebrating each kill in Pakistan and Yemen and S...
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Wasted Ideology: Relief
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Monday, May 12, 2014. What a relief, the world is over. It is no longer in question. There is nothing to be done. What respite for our consciences. It’s concluded, it’s conclusive, we really biffed it, we did nothing, and we have no one but ourselves to blame. What a relief, to have finally conclusively failed, to be cleared of the possibility of more responsibility, more guilt. We had nothing to win but blame and recrimination, and now we’ve won all of it. Because that “we” is the lie shroud...Not only ...
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Underemployed In New York City: What's A Girl Have To Do To Get A Little Service Around Here?
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Sunday, September 12, 2010. What's A Girl Have To Do To Get A Little Service Around Here? Apparently, the answer is "Call me.". This was my first weekend where I did substantial work on day off. And in the middle of what was a really great day off. I spent three hours calling customers, emailing the restaurant, and rearranging car services for Chef. I set up shop at the bar of a mom and pop chinese food restaurant, nursing a single can of diet coke working from my "virtual office.". For the lawyers, para...
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Wasted Ideology: How to live through the re-emergent despair of the post-movement: Some suggested withouts
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Friday, April 18, 2014. How to live through the re-emergent despair of the post-movement: Some suggested withouts. To face the despair without drowning it out in work, in career, in the mistaken impression that years lived for work can be easily shunted aside, maybe so but probably not so much, to not confuse work no matter what work with being alive. To face our despair without being impatient for not being done facing it, wi thout letting. That impatience lead us with dignified resignation to becoming ...
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Wasted Ideology: A Brief History of US Statist-Communist Thought: The Last 4 Years
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013. A Brief History of US Statist-Communist Thought: The Last 4 Years. 2010: We need a mass movement to respond to the financial crisis and begin a revolutionary sequence. The reason we haven't seen a real movement in America in 40 years is that we don't have a mass Socialist or Communist Party. 2012: The failure of Occupy to move beyond its limited means is a failure of horizontalism: Occupy would have succeeded had it been precipitated by a mass Socialist or Communist Party. Today's ...
