Ruseell has a big megaphone so that's great. Russell is a good sort but he's careful in what he says so as to not get censored. I can't blame him for that. You, Caitlin, aren't. You say the whole thing. If your audience becomes large enough, you will be censored.
Russell Brand's channel is one of if not my absolute favorite. He's funny, on point, well researched, and humble AF (as the kids say). Great message. Looking forward to watching him read your work, even if I've already read them.
I hope with his huge audience that he can help grow yours as well!
I'm not taking credit, but I have been slipping your name and quotes into several comments on his videos, and putting your quotes and ideas into my videos about his Under the Skin interviews. Someone asked in a comment on one of my videos whether you were my go-to person on Ukraine. I answered that if anyone was saying exactly what I wanted to say, I wouldn't go to the trouble of making videos but would dance my way into my dotage. And that I found your bluntness refreshing, it was a relief to take off the pretense and stop being nice about empire. And that you always taught me something new.
My recent video is 'Victoria Nuland is Dolores Umbridge.' I don't know that it would teach you anything new, but it would definitely amuse you ;-) https://youtu.be/TJJFuG1IWYk
Correct position about disinformation. Not so much about the side to be chosen in the military operation in Ukraine. After 8 years of Russia's warnings about Ukraine's disregard of every article of the Agreements of Minsk, Russia had to step in and stop all Western provocation.
I agree that I've been disappointed to see Russell falling for the MS message in Ukraine, but Caitlin's articles are a good place for him to start changing his mind.
I agree. My YouTube channel started out as response videos to Russell's Under the Skin podcasts. You might like it if you like him. We're in agreement on all of the important principles--the inherent goodness of people, the need for system change and decentralization, the suspicion that the world isn't as it seems. I've often seen him change his mind with new information, so I think he doesn't have all the facts yet on Ukraine but he's getting there. Here's my channel, if you want to take a gander. The first one, Why Russell Brand? might interest you.
Congratulations Caitlin! As one of your biggest fans, my wish has long been that everyone follows your writings everyday. Russell’s megaphone will help spread your honesty.
Keep channeling that muse, Caitlin! The more people learn to channel their muses, the more creative, free, and beautiful our species will become.
I always appreciate your hybrid form of journalism, and your constant attempt to create compelling ironies for people, such that you don’t have to tell them what to think, you just lay out the paradoxes and ironies saturating our world and discourse and let the mind see for itself.
This is the essential ingredient of the Socratic method, which remains the most powerful form of communication, in my opinion. Poets and prophets have always been about using paradox, parables, and irony to communicate their truth as well. That’s how they reached both the hearts and minds of so many. They were not lecturers or academics, or careerists.
Whether it’s a Socratic dialogue, a parable by Christ, or a speech by MLK, they were all very effective at compelling the mind using beautiful (even if sometimes intense) irony.
I think your journalism resounds because you see to do the same thing, and provoke a higher resonance of truth within your readers.
To quote St. Augustine, “The truth is like a lion, you don’t need to protect it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”
a beautiful quote by St. Augustine. unfortunately, that lion would be shot dead by assassins and devoured by hyenas, both on the global capitalist parasites' payrolls, in short order.
I’m sorry to say, but that sounds excessively “Boomerish.” Caitlin and a good bunch of others are doing a good job speaking the truth and developing their own independent platforms. More is being done everyday, and everyone needs to raise their game, intellectually, spiritually, and creatively.
I think the bigger problem is all the “black-pilled” folks and blind conspiracy theorists who just keep thinking everything is going perfectly according to plan, that nothing can be done, corruption etc…
Then they call themselves “realists.” The reality is things are not going just according to plan for the Borgs.
The “realists” need to put their thinking caps back on. In reality, the Olympians are very good at overestimating their intelligence and very good at underestimating the creativity of individuals and humanity generally. They are misanthropes, they disdain everyday people, and that makes them blind to many things.
I recommend reading Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.”
the "truth" has always been clear to everyone who cares. but the "reality" hasn't changed fundamentally. that's why Putin had to do what he did. not sure what your point is. trust me, i've done too much reading and thinking already.
You wrote: "the 'truth' has always been clear to everyone who cares."
I don't think that's true.
We're part of a much longer story, and the next chapters aren't yet written. There are boundary conditions, but how things are actually going to unfold is still undecided.
the "truth" is not something you discover by physically removing a cover every minute. social-historical "truth" doesn't change because time passes. we can only agree to disagree on what we mean by truth.
Wonderful to see more people reading your excellent work! Russel Brand prefaced the Overton window quote from Noam Chomsky, by saying that “some of you are not fans of Chomsky” but I’ll read this quote that you might like…. I have nothing but extreme respect for Noam Chomsky and I have heard this thing a few times now about how he has fallen out of the graces of the “left”. Can anyone explain why?
His take on COVID was on the rather authoritarian establishment side. He said the unvaccinated should remove themselves from the community and access to food was "their problem." I really appreciated his Manufacturing Consent, though. That doesn't mean he's infallible or that we need to agree with him -- or anyone -- 100% of the time.
Thanks. I had not heard this. Many felt that vaccination was the best route, but I suppose that he was perhaps overstating that position. Someone else told me that some people were upset that he endorsed Biden as the “lesser of evils”. I think these are small criticisms and shouldn’t obscure a lifetime of amazingly insightful analysis. People can be so petty and unfair…
Noam has never embraced the conspiratorium, which is odd in a way, but his research always relies on the provable fact-based reality, however disturbing, that all mainstream academic critics employ. It’s his loss, but I get it. He’s an old man now and he just hasn’t found his way out of that blue pill labyrinth of govt and big business that he could so deftly navigate for so many years. Naomi is another one. They’d lose half their audience if they took the plunge. Chomsky did appear in a 2015 video damning the globalist west’s attempts to bring in the Ukraine to their fold as a bad idea and would only rouse the Russian bear from its hibernation
So good to see your work and your message reaching more and more people. This, like you, gives me hope.
Ruseell has a big megaphone so that's great. Russell is a good sort but he's careful in what he says so as to not get censored. I can't blame him for that. You, Caitlin, aren't. You say the whole thing. If your audience becomes large enough, you will be censored.
Russell Brand's channel is one of if not my absolute favorite. He's funny, on point, well researched, and humble AF (as the kids say). Great message. Looking forward to watching him read your work, even if I've already read them.
I hope with his huge audience that he can help grow yours as well!
I saw that. Good for you! He's got 5 million subscribers, too. Jimmy Dore shows a lot of your tweets, if you didn't already know.
Your writing is heard around the world. Because you are that good.
That's pretty awesome! I hope you get many more readers!!!
I'm not taking credit, but I have been slipping your name and quotes into several comments on his videos, and putting your quotes and ideas into my videos about his Under the Skin interviews. Someone asked in a comment on one of my videos whether you were my go-to person on Ukraine. I answered that if anyone was saying exactly what I wanted to say, I wouldn't go to the trouble of making videos but would dance my way into my dotage. And that I found your bluntness refreshing, it was a relief to take off the pretense and stop being nice about empire. And that you always taught me something new.
My recent video is 'Victoria Nuland is Dolores Umbridge.' I don't know that it would teach you anything new, but it would definitely amuse you ;-) https://youtu.be/TJJFuG1IWYk
And I did use this to launch my Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-is-dolores-umbridge
Am v pleased for you!
Correct position about disinformation. Not so much about the side to be chosen in the military operation in Ukraine. After 8 years of Russia's warnings about Ukraine's disregard of every article of the Agreements of Minsk, Russia had to step in and stop all Western provocation.
I agree that I've been disappointed to see Russell falling for the MS message in Ukraine, but Caitlin's articles are a good place for him to start changing his mind.
I’ve been following him a while and he’s anything but a mainstream follower
I agree. My YouTube channel started out as response videos to Russell's Under the Skin podcasts. You might like it if you like him. We're in agreement on all of the important principles--the inherent goodness of people, the need for system change and decentralization, the suspicion that the world isn't as it seems. I've often seen him change his mind with new information, so I think he doesn't have all the facts yet on Ukraine but he's getting there. Here's my channel, if you want to take a gander. The first one, Why Russell Brand? might interest you.
Third Paradigm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDmO99Pl8y7I2qnYjpA_njQ
Why Russell Brand? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3JpDatCydM
Thanks for these I’ll have a look
Yes. Agreed.
I actually learned about you from this video. I'm definitely interested in seeing what else you have on offer.
Congratulations Caitlin! As one of your biggest fans, my wish has long been that everyone follows your writings everyday. Russell’s megaphone will help spread your honesty.
Keep channeling that muse, Caitlin! The more people learn to channel their muses, the more creative, free, and beautiful our species will become.
I always appreciate your hybrid form of journalism, and your constant attempt to create compelling ironies for people, such that you don’t have to tell them what to think, you just lay out the paradoxes and ironies saturating our world and discourse and let the mind see for itself.
This is the essential ingredient of the Socratic method, which remains the most powerful form of communication, in my opinion. Poets and prophets have always been about using paradox, parables, and irony to communicate their truth as well. That’s how they reached both the hearts and minds of so many. They were not lecturers or academics, or careerists.
Whether it’s a Socratic dialogue, a parable by Christ, or a speech by MLK, they were all very effective at compelling the mind using beautiful (even if sometimes intense) irony.
I think your journalism resounds because you see to do the same thing, and provoke a higher resonance of truth within your readers.
To quote St. Augustine, “The truth is like a lion, you don’t need to protect it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”
a beautiful quote by St. Augustine. unfortunately, that lion would be shot dead by assassins and devoured by hyenas, both on the global capitalist parasites' payrolls, in short order.
I’m sorry to say, but that sounds excessively “Boomerish.” Caitlin and a good bunch of others are doing a good job speaking the truth and developing their own independent platforms. More is being done everyday, and everyone needs to raise their game, intellectually, spiritually, and creatively.
I think the bigger problem is all the “black-pilled” folks and blind conspiracy theorists who just keep thinking everything is going perfectly according to plan, that nothing can be done, corruption etc…
Then they call themselves “realists.” The reality is things are not going just according to plan for the Borgs.
The “realists” need to put their thinking caps back on. In reality, the Olympians are very good at overestimating their intelligence and very good at underestimating the creativity of individuals and humanity generally. They are misanthropes, they disdain everyday people, and that makes them blind to many things.
I recommend reading Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.”
the "truth" has always been clear to everyone who cares. but the "reality" hasn't changed fundamentally. that's why Putin had to do what he did. not sure what your point is. trust me, i've done too much reading and thinking already.
You wrote: "the 'truth' has always been clear to everyone who cares."
I don't think that's true.
We're part of a much longer story, and the next chapters aren't yet written. There are boundary conditions, but how things are actually going to unfold is still undecided.
People have to make a decision.
the "truth" is not something you discover by physically removing a cover every minute. social-historical "truth" doesn't change because time passes. we can only agree to disagree on what we mean by truth.
Beautiful writing!
Wonderful to see more people reading your excellent work! Russel Brand prefaced the Overton window quote from Noam Chomsky, by saying that “some of you are not fans of Chomsky” but I’ll read this quote that you might like…. I have nothing but extreme respect for Noam Chomsky and I have heard this thing a few times now about how he has fallen out of the graces of the “left”. Can anyone explain why?
His take on COVID was on the rather authoritarian establishment side. He said the unvaccinated should remove themselves from the community and access to food was "their problem." I really appreciated his Manufacturing Consent, though. That doesn't mean he's infallible or that we need to agree with him -- or anyone -- 100% of the time.
Thanks. I had not heard this. Many felt that vaccination was the best route, but I suppose that he was perhaps overstating that position. Someone else told me that some people were upset that he endorsed Biden as the “lesser of evils”. I think these are small criticisms and shouldn’t obscure a lifetime of amazingly insightful analysis. People can be so petty and unfair…
Noam has never embraced the conspiratorium, which is odd in a way, but his research always relies on the provable fact-based reality, however disturbing, that all mainstream academic critics employ. It’s his loss, but I get it. He’s an old man now and he just hasn’t found his way out of that blue pill labyrinth of govt and big business that he could so deftly navigate for so many years. Naomi is another one. They’d lose half their audience if they took the plunge. Chomsky did appear in a 2015 video damning the globalist west’s attempts to bring in the Ukraine to their fold as a bad idea and would only rouse the Russian bear from its hibernation
High praise!
I saw that!
Yay!