I share Shaenah’s mistrust of Naomi Wolf even though I have liked Wolf’s output in the past and note how she was much preferable to that other Naomi – Klein. But Wolf has fallen into that “pincer movement” as I think of it i.e. that phony division between “Left” covid/climate/trans shillers and the “Right” sceptics but anti-Marxists. Wolf has made a big fuss about “her new friends on the Right” – she seems to be quite happy about this. You think it’s something she might have wondered about and ought to have realised the “pincer strategy”.
She has also gone into the Christian thing in a big way. I noted the same thing from Russell Brand and I wonder what the hell is going on.
That there is no resistance to the increasing impoverishment and acceleratingly unbearable demands on more and more of the population may be seen as an inevitable outcome of a populace that no longer even thinks in terms of protest – perhaps because there is less sense of solidarity than ever before. Everybody feels isolated, demoralised.
I recall a book called “Going Postal” by Mark Ames which drew a connection between the outbursts of violence in modern day work places and similar occasional outbursts in the old slave communities of the south. Ames noted that the only slaves likely to try and escape were those who were newly captured i.e. those that were not brought up to be slaves. Those who were born into slavery thought of slavery as their natural condition and would be supremely unlikely to rebel. Perhaps the modern atomised masses now have this instilled sense of impotence.
I share Shaenah’s mistrust of Naomi Wolf even though I have liked Wolf’s output in the past and note how she was much preferable to that other Naomi – Klein. But Wolf has fallen into that “pincer movement” as I think of it i.e. that phony division between “Left” covid/climate/trans shillers and the “Right” sceptics but anti-Marxists. Wolf has made a big fuss about “her new friends on the Right” – she seems to be quite happy about this. You think it’s something she might have wondered about and ought to have realised the “pincer strategy”.
She has also gone into the Christian thing in a big way. I noted the same thing from Russell Brand and I wonder what the hell is going on.
That there is no resistance to the increasing impoverishment and acceleratingly unbearable demands on more and more of the population may be seen as an inevitable outcome of a populace that no longer even thinks in terms of protest – perhaps because there is less sense of solidarity than ever before. Everybody feels isolated, demoralised.
I recall a book called “Going Postal” by Mark Ames which drew a connection between the outbursts of violence in modern day work places and similar occasional outbursts in the old slave communities of the south. Ames noted that the only slaves likely to try and escape were those who were newly captured i.e. those that were not brought up to be slaves. Those who were born into slavery thought of slavery as their natural condition and would be supremely unlikely to rebel. Perhaps the modern atomised masses now have this instilled sense of impotence.