I'm a huge fan of Charles Eisenstein and keep up with all his work - and I was always fascinated by his ability to avoid cancellation. But yeah his luck has run out. Or maybe it wasn't blind luck that ran out, he probably knew quite well what would happen.
For what it's worth, my respect or Charles grew through this. We are at a point where all the best, most interesting voices get cancelled and I was wondering if and when that would happen to him. I agree that we all need to wait and let that wave break.
I think Covid will be one of the deaths of cancel culture, by the way, because it is just so plain that neither vaccinations nor lockdowns nor masks can really defeat it, that politics and media don't know how to deal with it. The powers that be have thrown a lot of weight behind shutting up the anti vax/mask/lockdown crowd and despite that Covid has been running rampant all the while. How long until they have to admit that?
I had never heard of Eisenstein, and read the essay. I found his false equivilence of the voluntarily unvaccinated to persecuted Jews to be appalling. I recommend this rebuttal:
I am not going to add to the Charles Eisenstein issue, I feel that you and Sistersmith covered it sufficiently.
I do want to comment on your essay on Anarchism and Antifa. First, I found it fairly informative, you filled in holes that I had about them. Very well done.
Second, when I left the USMC in 1991, just as Desert Storm was winding up, I was an avowed pacifist and anarchist. I had seen all to well in the 14 years I was enlisted what violence does to the tools of empire and their victims.
I have distanced myself from most anarchists due to their excessive reliance on violence to incite state repression, it reminds me of the KGB tactic of using cells to create an oppressive police state so that the masses will rise and overthrow the government with the help of the USSR.
Also I grew tired of being marginalized because I did not wear spikes, have tattoos, or spiky colored hair.
I continue to work within a select group of people that I trust.
I draw inspiration from my ancestors, both recent and distant.
Perhaps there are two separate questions: 1) The efficacy or desirability of vaccination, and 2) the somewhat hysterical self-righteousness of anti-anti-vaxxers.
I'm a huge fan of Charles Eisenstein and keep up with all his work - and I was always fascinated by his ability to avoid cancellation. But yeah his luck has run out. Or maybe it wasn't blind luck that ran out, he probably knew quite well what would happen.
For what it's worth, my respect or Charles grew through this. We are at a point where all the best, most interesting voices get cancelled and I was wondering if and when that would happen to him. I agree that we all need to wait and let that wave break.
I think Covid will be one of the deaths of cancel culture, by the way, because it is just so plain that neither vaccinations nor lockdowns nor masks can really defeat it, that politics and media don't know how to deal with it. The powers that be have thrown a lot of weight behind shutting up the anti vax/mask/lockdown crowd and despite that Covid has been running rampant all the while. How long until they have to admit that?
I had never heard of Eisenstein, and read the essay. I found his false equivilence of the voluntarily unvaccinated to persecuted Jews to be appalling. I recommend this rebuttal:
https://lissarankin.com/why-comparing-the-unvaxxed-to-the-persecuted-jews-is-an-abomination-why-healthy-boundaries-are-not-the-same-as-fascism/
I am not going to add to the Charles Eisenstein issue, I feel that you and Sistersmith covered it sufficiently.
I do want to comment on your essay on Anarchism and Antifa. First, I found it fairly informative, you filled in holes that I had about them. Very well done.
Second, when I left the USMC in 1991, just as Desert Storm was winding up, I was an avowed pacifist and anarchist. I had seen all to well in the 14 years I was enlisted what violence does to the tools of empire and their victims.
I have distanced myself from most anarchists due to their excessive reliance on violence to incite state repression, it reminds me of the KGB tactic of using cells to create an oppressive police state so that the masses will rise and overthrow the government with the help of the USSR.
Also I grew tired of being marginalized because I did not wear spikes, have tattoos, or spiky colored hair.
I continue to work within a select group of people that I trust.
I draw inspiration from my ancestors, both recent and distant.
Perhaps there are two separate questions: 1) The efficacy or desirability of vaccination, and 2) the somewhat hysterical self-righteousness of anti-anti-vaxxers.