“We can blame this on Putin or Xi Jinping or the North Koreans or this or that bad actor, but they are simply acting the way they have always acted. The problem is us. What has changed is not the barbarians of the world, but that we gave up on the justice of our cause.”
Yes - but I haven’t. I and many many others have not given up. What w…
“We can blame this on Putin or Xi Jinping or the North Koreans or this or that bad actor, but they are simply acting the way they have always acted. The problem is us. What has changed is not the barbarians of the world, but that we gave up on the justice of our cause.”
Yes - but I haven’t. I and many many others have not given up. What would be the benefit of such a navel-gazing attitude? To die beautifully and intentionally is not my end game.
Excellent Upheaval article - dense and eloquent. More often than not I find the Comments here more expanding and invigorating than the essay itself! I have also enjoyed Adam Curry’s recent podcast on No Agenda and believe it to be worth sharing - spot on in his analysis but also an opportunity to laugh a lot. And I think we all need a big dose of hope and humor right now.
“We can blame this on Putin or Xi Jinping or the North Koreans or this or that bad actor, but they are simply acting the way they have always acted. The problem is us. What has changed is not the barbarians of the world, but that we gave up on the justice of our cause.”
Yes - but I haven’t. I and many many others have not given up. What would be the benefit of such a navel-gazing attitude? To die beautifully and intentionally is not my end game.
Me? I'll go down fighting:
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/no-the-revolution-isnt-over?s=r
Excellent Upheaval article - dense and eloquent. More often than not I find the Comments here more expanding and invigorating than the essay itself! I have also enjoyed Adam Curry’s recent podcast on No Agenda and believe it to be worth sharing - spot on in his analysis but also an opportunity to laugh a lot. And I think we all need a big dose of hope and humor right now.
Thank you for sharing that! What a thorough and thoughtful analysis!!
Rats. The heart was gonna TY for the TY. Anyhoo... TY!
That guy is a genius
HS Lyons, The Upheaval substack is the strongest analysis going - masterful!
TYTY. Yeah, You've got the right of it, except it's N.S.
It’s Ross Douthat from the New York Times really under a pseudonym
This a joke? I'm pretty gullible, so dunno, Sir RJF.