"Fragmentary individuals just scream out their first moral impressions into the void, because it seems like there are no stakes, and they have no power anyway."
Alright, Bear. I like what you're doing here and you earned my subscription. It seems like your message is one of practicality. It isn't practical to scream and kick. Rather, having the maturity to know what it is that is bothering us and advocating for our needs. Isn't that what we are all after? To meet our needs whether through self-fulfillment or through the communities in which we live?
What you've done in this post is laid a solid foundation for people to begin on the creative path of thought-out intentions and directives. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Title could have been "contra Felker Martin on killing Felker Martin." Yeah, it's pretty psychopathic and hard to believe that lots of people think it would be okay if indigenous people murdered random Americans in an armed resistance! One disagreement; I do not think Felker Martin is pretty good--she has, for instance, made bizarre, sexual, and threatening comments about Singal. She seems sort of unhinged!
of course, the operative phrase in your article, "some kind of shared political..." There lies the problem, and not just the Mideast. On the other hand, I hope you're not suggesting that Israel is the majority in the mid-east? They may have superior beyond what their populative minority might normally have, but depending on how wide of the region you want to expand your measurement Israel is between 1-5% of the regional population; and this had never previously occurred to me, but if there is some kind of recognition of Israel's regional population status, they might have to recognize they have to negotiate from a minority position.
From the moral perspective both have been guilty of bad behavior and wanting to kill the other, so I give no grants to either for their behavior.
Agreed. However, transforming atomised individuals into a social force with a political vision and a strategy is the missing bit of know-how and the really difficult part of the project. One would have thought that it might be more doable in the digital era of immediate and widespread communication. Instead, things seem to have degenerated in masochistic and/or victimist rants and tribalism without serious reflection or logic.
Closely related https://crookedtimber.org/2011/10/19/mlk-and-non-violent-protest/
"Fragmentary individuals just scream out their first moral impressions into the void, because it seems like there are no stakes, and they have no power anyway."
Alright, Bear. I like what you're doing here and you earned my subscription. It seems like your message is one of practicality. It isn't practical to scream and kick. Rather, having the maturity to know what it is that is bothering us and advocating for our needs. Isn't that what we are all after? To meet our needs whether through self-fulfillment or through the communities in which we live?
What you've done in this post is laid a solid foundation for people to begin on the creative path of thought-out intentions and directives. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Typo: - we have to try to help as well as well can
I like the geolibertarian model that taxonomizes land, capital, and labor; conflating land and capital is, I think, an error.
Title could have been "contra Felker Martin on killing Felker Martin." Yeah, it's pretty psychopathic and hard to believe that lots of people think it would be okay if indigenous people murdered random Americans in an armed resistance! One disagreement; I do not think Felker Martin is pretty good--she has, for instance, made bizarre, sexual, and threatening comments about Singal. She seems sort of unhinged!
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/id-like-gretchen-felker-martin-to
of course, the operative phrase in your article, "some kind of shared political..." There lies the problem, and not just the Mideast. On the other hand, I hope you're not suggesting that Israel is the majority in the mid-east? They may have superior beyond what their populative minority might normally have, but depending on how wide of the region you want to expand your measurement Israel is between 1-5% of the regional population; and this had never previously occurred to me, but if there is some kind of recognition of Israel's regional population status, they might have to recognize they have to negotiate from a minority position.
From the moral perspective both have been guilty of bad behavior and wanting to kill the other, so I give no grants to either for their behavior.
Agreed. However, transforming atomised individuals into a social force with a political vision and a strategy is the missing bit of know-how and the really difficult part of the project. One would have thought that it might be more doable in the digital era of immediate and widespread communication. Instead, things seem to have degenerated in masochistic and/or victimist rants and tribalism without serious reflection or logic.