13-11-2015, 06:24 PM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:Having now partly read the extended essay, I have to say that I regard it as very significant and also very important. It's extremely well footnoted and clearly and concisely written and a pleasure to read too.
Second that. The article is outstanding. ::
No more snotty comments from me.
Thanks. I try not to suggest detritus. He has a different perspective than Scott, but I think the footnotes and information in it, when combined with Scott's work, really is a powerful mix. Glennon sees this as anti-democratic and evil; but as some 'natural' outcome of a certain kind of bureaucratic thinking and organization. If I can read between the lines on Scott, he is more inclined to think this is a well thought out conspiracy to create an anti-democratic plutocracy/oligarchy/fascist state. However, on the details and personalities they have great overlap.
I just loved the backgrounds of some of the Supremes....and that was dirt I didn't know about! He has a book out which appears to be about 3-4 times the size of the Harvard article. It seems from the TOC to go through the American political system branch by branch, also going into his 'Double Government' [as he likes to call it] and how they pull the strings on most of what we see in the Visible/First Government.
Both are in their own ways telling us we have lost our democracy and showing where the cancer is and has been - how it has grown. The ways to get rid of this cancer and win our democracy back are pretty straight forward, as they are difficult - but still possible if we don't delay and wake up enough people. Not many are ready for reading Scott - yet.
I hope this primes the pump for more to read Scott and others like him.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass


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