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I hadn..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Thanks for the Orson Welles recommendation. I hadn’t heard of the film at all. You were right "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/908557520227020969\/comments\/default\/4151985160141346267"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/908557520227020969\/comments\/default\/4151985160141346267"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/the-10-best-movies-i-watched-in-2020.html?showComment=1609393096067#c4151985160141346267","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Abbot of Unreason"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/04977530331393339387"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/the-10-best-movies-i-watched-in-2020.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-908557520227020969","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/908557520227020969","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-920980953"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Wednesday, December 30, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-9098952367587651101"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-14T17:04:24.054-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-14T17:04:24.054-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Mr. Fox, I\u0026#39;m not sure why my name was not show..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Mr. Fox, I\u0026#39;m not sure why my name was not showing up earlier, but the comment above is mine (typos and all). Like you, I wouldn\u0026#39;t call myself totally affectionate to the anti-federalists. The issues were far too complex to say we could agree 100% with every tenant of either side of the debate about what our government should be like.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI appreciate your tempering influence in your response as I should mitigate my comment to say that the brokenness I am addressing is that we do not have statesmen to lead us, we have very few others-centric patriots, and we have example aplenty of those who see themselves, their causes, their desires far above those of the actual nation of diverse people.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI am not naïve to think that this nation will ever be a union of states instead of the single entity I believe it to be. The structure of our nation today was not what the founding fathers envisioned based on my study of history. However, maybe it is what some of the framers, such as Hamilton, worked to secure for corporations of the colonial cities. It is certainly not a nation for the people."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/9098952367587651101"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/9098952367587651101"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html?showComment=1607987064054#c9098952367587651101","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dan Grubbs"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-7171224247317779929","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/7171224247317779929","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1892273027"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Monday, December 14, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-4503914910287822252"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-14T14:19:26.920-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-14T14:19:26.920-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well said, Unknown! My affection for the Anti-Fede..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Well said, Unknown! My affection for the Anti-Federalists isn\u0026#39;t comprehensive; I think that are many good things which our constitutional system, partaking as it does of the  capitalist state-making of modernity, brought about that might not have been the case under an Anti-Federalist confederal regime. But overall, I completely agree that it\u0026#39;s sad so few people take seriously the real historical options that were--and still are--available to us. Of course, your right about Trump, and probably right about America\u0026#39;s brokenness as well--though, as a little voice in my head always reminds me, Rome didn\u0026#39;t fall in a day, and neither will America. How much good might still be done, in local neighborhoods and communities, as we slowly fall apart? Enough to make it worth propping up the whole system for as long as possible? I wonder."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/4503914910287822252"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/4503914910287822252"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html?showComment=1607977166920#c4503914910287822252","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Russell Arben Fox"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03366800726360134194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AHG5bwVQKwY\/TUyb6aN5ASI\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/EIFp6-WYZ_o\/s220\/sideshowbob.thumbnail.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-7171224247317779929","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/7171224247317779929","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1949681047"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Monday, December 14, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-5961910822100597890"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-14T08:17:26.949-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-14T08:17:26.949-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Apologies for the typos in my comment. Please corr..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Apologies for the typos in my comment. Please correct where relevant."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/5961910822100597890"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/5961910822100597890"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html?showComment=1607955446949#c5961910822100597890","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05696058051270765970"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-7171224247317779929","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/7171224247317779929","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1506299871"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Monday, December 14, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-5486986982224615327"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-14T08:13:17.515-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-14T08:13:17.515-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Long response follows:\nAs someone who often ponder..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Long response follows:\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs someone who often ponders what our nation should be like 244 years hence if the anti-federalists had won the day, I was excited to read this piece. When people complain about \u0026quot;the world today\u0026quot; or say things, such as \u0026quot;it\u0026#39;s all gone to pot,\u0026quot; I chuckle at their serious lack of history. It\u0026#39;s usually then when I pipe in and tell them about how our nation was doomed when the anti-federalists \u0026quot;lost\u0026quot; the debate with the urban industrialists who have since that day controlled our nation both in the marketplace and in the halls of government. Nevertheless, Mr. Fox, what I hope for your piece here (and being picked up at Front Porch Republic) is that some small segment of our nation even become aware that there was a debate for what kind of government our nation should have and that knowledge be inclusive of the tenants and messages of the anti-federalists. Alas, when American history is taught, if it\u0026#39;s taught, the vague and sparse references to the pre-constitutional dialog is all too singularly focused to the federalists and cloaked in anti-Crown and anti-slavery messaging. The fact that Americans are so far removed from these dialogs of nearly two and a half centuries is evidence of the success of the educational system steering young minds away from the debate.\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo the matter at hand, if the first successful nomination and election of Donald Trump is not an indication even to the casual observer that our nation is broken, then there is no hope for free-thinking America. If in the second and unsuccessful campaign for the office of the President, Mr. Trump refuses to acquiesce, then that is further indictment that the leaders of the RNC and corporate America are politically (and socially?) xenophobic toward the citizenry. \u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a man or woman was royal head of Great Britain, the power behind the throne was Canterbury, despite the monarch being the official head of the church and not the archbishop. External forces to the executive and legislative arms of that or our own government have always been the real source of power and its corruption is now plainly to be seen by anyone. Those of reasonable faculty who do discount this still do see it, but refuse to corroborate this fact because of fear of losing power -- be they red, blue, green, purple, or other such identifier.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was evident long before Mr. Trump\u0026#39;s run for the nomination that he was a tyrant. No more than 15 minutes of viewing of his television show could reveal that. How the RNC could wink at his misogamy is incredulous. How the Christian could believe in his last-minute regeneration with no evidence of fruit is shameful. Will it require military power to extricate the man from his throne? Will he hate America so much that he will continue to put us on the players stage in this tragi-comedy for all the world to see? He is no American who will put his personal desires before the nation -- and that includes the original federalists who wanted to protect their business markets over the interests of the new nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/5486986982224615327"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7171224247317779929\/comments\/default\/5486986982224615327"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html?showComment=1607955197515#c5486986982224615327","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05696058051270765970"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/the-anti-federalists-were-right-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-7171224247317779929","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/7171224247317779929","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1506299871"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Monday, December 14, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-8318647307973794557"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-18T11:55:42.733-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-18T11:55:42.733-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Some good news on the local civic scene in your ne..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Some good news on the local civic scene in your neck of the woods. It is a refreshing read in these times of national \u0026quot;carnage.\u0026quot; It is possible for people of good will to work together across the national divides if they change their perspective from the large to elevate the local instead. Two swallows don\u0026#39;t make a summer, but you keep tabs on such developments and it would be nice to read about more such (anti :=)developments. Cheers, gerrit"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/8883846987414595932\/comments\/default\/8318647307973794557"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/8883846987414595932\/comments\/default\/8318647307973794557"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/glimmers-of-different-wichita.html?showComment=1595091342733#c8318647307973794557","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/glimmers-of-different-wichita.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-8883846987414595932","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/8883846987414595932","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1892273027"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Saturday, July 18, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6803061221243516283"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-17T13:34:06.344-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-17T13:34:06.344-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Thanks for the comment, Tukuvwi! I knew about the ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Thanks for the comment, Tukuvwi! I knew about the Niven connection with \u0026quot;The Slaver Weapon,\u0026quot; but I didn\u0026#39;t know there was a particular short story which lay behind this episode. I\u0026#39;ll have to check it out!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6534439420861178334\/comments\/default\/6803061221243516283"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6534439420861178334\/comments\/default\/6803061221243516283"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/star-trek-animated-series-final-binge.html?showComment=1595010846344#c6803061221243516283","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Russell Arben Fox"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03366800726360134194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AHG5bwVQKwY\/TUyb6aN5ASI\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/EIFp6-WYZ_o\/s220\/sideshowbob.thumbnail.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/star-trek-animated-series-final-binge.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6534439420861178334","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/6534439420861178334","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1949681047"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Friday, July 17, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-2516530336912428374"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-17T13:27:11.877-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-17T13:27:11.877-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;ve enjoyed your Star Trek reviews, but didn\u0026..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I\u0026#39;ve enjoyed your Star Trek reviews, but didn\u0026#39;t feel prompted to comment until now. \u0026quot;The Slaver Weapon\u0026quot; is taken directly from Larry Niven\u0026#39;s Known Space series -- it\u0026#39;s actually an adaptation of the short story \u0026quot;The Soft Weapon\u0026quot;, which was anthologized in \u003Ci\u003ENeutron Star\u003C\/i\u003E. Star Trek kept the kzinti, but ditched Nessus, the puppeteer, which was too bad: the puppeteers are much more interesting aliens than the kzinti, which are basically just furry orange Klingons."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6534439420861178334\/comments\/default\/2516530336912428374"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6534439420861178334\/comments\/default\/2516530336912428374"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/star-trek-animated-series-final-binge.html?showComment=1595010431877#c2516530336912428374","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tukuvwi"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13645862864879994048"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/star-trek-animated-series-final-binge.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6534439420861178334","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/6534439420861178334","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-921821090"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Friday, July 17, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6615807614646196367"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-07T10:59:34.081-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-07T10:59:34.081-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Thanks, again! It looks like a harkening to the Ca..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Thanks, again! It looks like a harkening to the Catholic Worker Movement. I\u0026#39;ve bookmarked Solidarity Hall and will catch up on their recent articles. You get around, eh? :=) I appreciate learning from your circles. 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I like keeping track of as many of the (fortunately, increasingly numerous) organizations that are connecting people with building egalitarianism from the ground up. Have you heard of Solidarity Hall (https:\/\/solidarityhall.org\/)? They\u0026#39;re an outfit worth getting familiar with too."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/5043131240246404331\/comments\/default\/4383449617540620429"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/5043131240246404331\/comments\/default\/4383449617540620429"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/left-not-liberal-conservatism-or.html?showComment=1594132418294#c4383449617540620429","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Russell Arben Fox"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03366800726360134194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AHG5bwVQKwY\/TUyb6aN5ASI\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/EIFp6-WYZ_o\/s220\/sideshowbob.thumbnail.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/left-not-liberal-conservatism-or.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-5043131240246404331","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/5043131240246404331","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1949681047"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Tuesday, July 07, 2020"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-4595259482165148744"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-07T09:07:07.733-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-07T09:07:07.733-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Russell, I read this article at FPR and have subsc..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Russell, I read this article at FPR and have subscribed to both your blogs. 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And Acts 4:32-37 too!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Indeed, Jim! And Acts 4:32-37 too!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/3794055789728756806\/comments\/default\/5108930981639433156"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/3794055789728756806\/comments\/default\/5108930981639433156"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/local-socialism-and-civil-society.html?showComment=1569446580087#c5108930981639433156","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Russell Arben Fox"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03366800726360134194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AHG5bwVQKwY\/TUyb6aN5ASI\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/EIFp6-WYZ_o\/s220\/sideshowbob.thumbnail.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/local-socialism-and-civil-society.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-3794055789728756806","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/3794055789728756806","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1949681047"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Wednesday, September 25, 2019"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-5523384380270207470"},"published":{"$t":"2019-09-25T14:51:12.470-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-09-25T14:51:12.470-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"LUKE 4:18"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"LUKE 4:18"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/3794055789728756806\/comments\/default\/5523384380270207470"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/3794055789728756806\/comments\/default\/5523384380270207470"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/local-socialism-and-civil-society.html?showComment=1569441072470#c5523384380270207470","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"jimherb"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16372209038828189958"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Qr3PAF3KzCw\/SohjjPHznII\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Pg4WyxWcA1A\/S220\/q752139767_1128.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/local-socialism-and-civil-society.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-3794055789728756806","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/3794055789728756806","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-451282517"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Wednesday, September 25, 2019"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-8170449383413153801"},"published":{"$t":"2019-05-31T09:32:51.065-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-05-31T09:32:51.065-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Agreed, Alkali. 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I remember this oh so well! "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ah... I remember this oh so well! "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7041583763721174773\/comments\/default\/783719769919751318"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/7041583763721174773\/comments\/default\/783719769919751318"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/ray-bradbury-wonderful-liar.html?showComment=1556334326368#c783719769919751318","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jonathan"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03339044293973721200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"26","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_oBpJVENxEU\/UljS2AGpsWI\/AAAAAAAAAnY\/1imP81lVosM\/s1600\/Jonathan-Sherman-Headshot-2012.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/ray-bradbury-wonderful-liar.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-7041583763721174773","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/7041583763721174773","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1635187395"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Friday, April 26, 2019"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-4809259843211577943"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-03T03:52:41.999-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-03T03:52:41.999-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In very, very loose terms there\u0026#39;s a generation..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In very, very loose terms there\u0026#39;s a generational story going on. You have people like Czeslaw Milosz and Milovan Djilas who were born shortly before the Great War. They grew up amid the remnants of feudalism and the wreckage of the war; socialism seemed to them the humane way of the future. Milosz survived World War Two in Warsaw, though he did not join the Home Army; Djilas was a partisan commander in Yugoslavia and after the war was vice-president under Tito, a possible successor. Both of them saw what socialism married to great-power nationalism became and broke with the movement. Milosz served as a cultural attache for the post-war Polish government in Washington and Paris; he defected to the West while in Paris. He wrote The Captive Mind, which describes how various people came to rationalize their commitment to Communism. (I also read it as a conversion story, or rather as a set of conversion stories.) Djilas fell from power when he followed his ideas on worker participation and democratic self-management to their logical conclusions. After his fall, he wrote The New Class, which is essentially about the intrusion of the Party bureaucracy into the Marxist scheme of class conflict. Its publication abroad earned him seven years of jail time, on top of the three he had been sentenced to when he fell from power. Released early, Djilas published Conversations With Stalin, which got him another five. He eventually served nine years and was amnestied in 1966. He lived to see the end of Yugoslavia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGyörgy Konrád, whose early 1980s book Antipolitics is what started me down this path. He was born in 1933, and his was the only Jewish family of about 1000 in the town where he was born to survive World War Two. The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (1974) parallels and reinforces Djilas\u0026#39; work on the same topic. Antipolitics is a collection of essays in which Konrád looks for something neither East nor West. My recollection of him is left-ish, in that he isn\u0026#39;t interested in the capitalism and consumerism that he saw as being on offer from Washington. After 1989, he was active in politics as a founder of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SzDSz, which, because of the idiosyncrasies of Hungarian orthography is pronounced S-D-S) but wound up more engaged with global intellectual politics, as president of PEN International and two-time head of Berlin\u0026#39;s Academy of Arts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;ll skip Havel, since I presume you\u0026#39;ve read him. Kundera I only know as a novelist, though apparently there are essays as well. Danilo Kis I don\u0026#39;t know at all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMichnik was born after the war and grew up in a family of committed Communists. He was also a Scout, which I didn\u0026#39;t know until I read his Wikipedia entry; his troop leader was Jacek Kuron, who was also later a key Solidarity organizer and theoretician. (I met Kuron briefly in \u0026#39;95 or \u0026#39;96 when he was visiting DC.) Letters from Prison is probably the collection to aim for, if you\u0026#39;re looking for pre-1989 views."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/4809259843211577943"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/4809259843211577943"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html?showComment=1554281561999#c4809259843211577943","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Doug"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.thefrumiousconsortium.net"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6652006826656916670","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/6652006826656916670","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1892273027"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Wednesday, April 03, 2019"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-5921397503111368500"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-03T01:32:42.286-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-03T01:32:42.286-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As a \u0026quot;rural rebel\u0026quot; myself for nearly 70 ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As a \u0026quot;rural rebel\u0026quot; myself for nearly 70 years, I commend you and Ashwood for at least looking in a different direction. A lot of this - and more - was brought up in the Movement in the 1960\u0026#39;s. The key is to walk away from the state, especially now. More on this can be found in my two books if you are interested. The Laws of Physics Are On My Side (2013) and Hints for Managing Collapse (2014). Both on Amazon and both with the Look Inside feature. You can also get them through interlibrary loan from your county library."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/5921397503111368500"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/5921397503111368500"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html?showComment=1554273162286#c5921397503111368500","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Walter"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09458420994949500662"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"27","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Wu_bvS4RjcE\/UQGmNw0fE_I\/AAAAAAAAADc\/wqsbwxU2kfc\/s220\/Author%2BPhoto.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6652006826656916670","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/6652006826656916670","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1417850813"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Wednesday, April 03, 2019"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-3260437274613657782"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-02T13:19:20.317-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-02T13:19:20.317-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"People who are interested in the stateless notion ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EPeople who are interested in the stateless notion might get something from all of the anti-politics theorizing that was going on in Central Europe just before 1989.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s an interesting idea, Doug; any recommendations of specific writings or works? I always knew that those thinkers were charting, intellectually at least, a distinct left-wing route forward, but I\u0026#39;ve never really looked at the details."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/3260437274613657782"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/3260437274613657782"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html?showComment=1554229160317#c3260437274613657782","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Russell Arben Fox"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03366800726360134194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AHG5bwVQKwY\/TUyb6aN5ASI\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/EIFp6-WYZ_o\/s220\/sideshowbob.thumbnail.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6652006826656916670","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/6652006826656916670","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1949681047"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Tuesday, April 02, 2019"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-686295611399400776"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-02T10:45:45.964-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-02T10:45:45.964-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Lots. The longest chapter in the book is her immer..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003ELots. The longest chapter in the book is her immersion into the local African-American church culture, which is wild, wonderful thing all its own.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGood news! Last month I read \u003Ci\u003EThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003C\/i\u003E, by Isabel Wilkerson, which is a fabulous book, the kind that puts a frame of lived experience on the demographic reports or theoretical musings. One of Wilkerson\u0026#39;s main subjects had the kind of deep knowledge of the citrus groves of Lake County, Florida that you get from picking them with your own two hands. He had to leave for the north one day because he probably would have been shot that night for organizing the pickers to demand better wages. And just last night I finished up \u003Ci\u003EThe Color of Law\u003C\/i\u003E by Richard Rothstein, which, if you haven\u0026#39;t read it, is a thoroughgoing brief on how many different ways state power was used to establish and prop up residential segregation. If you count regulators looking away while banks and bank-like entities sold subprime and negative-amortization loans to black customers in ways that they didn\u0026#39;t to white, then state support for disadvantaging black Americans runs through at least 2008.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t doubt that the Southern Company and DoE have been screwing local people for as long as they have been involved in the Savannah River area. (My impression of the Southern Company from way back in the days when I lived in Atlanta is that they had a serious corruption problem, though I can\u0026#39;t cite sources a quarter of a century later.) The courthouse gang was probably the only local group not getting the short end of the stick. Countervailing power is about the only thing I can think of that might change the dynamics soon, and if the local white people insist on voting for Republicans, that isn\u0026#39;t going to happen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway anyway. My next non-fiction is likely to be \u003Ci\u003EA Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev\u003C\/i\u003E by Douglas Weiner, a description of something that wasn\u0026#39;t really supposed to exist but which, nevertheless, persisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople who are interested in the stateless notion might get something from all of the anti-politics theorizing that was going on in Central Europe just before 1989. Some of those folks actually rose to various positions of power, where they found it didn\u0026#39;t mix very well with the needs of running real nations. Havel probably found the best balance, but then a semi-figurehead role is better suited to that approach. Michnik made it as a media mogul, and has a generally positive effect on Poland, current government notwithstanding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/686295611399400776"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/686295611399400776"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html?showComment=1554219945964#c686295611399400776","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Doug"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.thefrumiousconsortium.net"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6652006826656916670","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/6652006826656916670","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1892273027"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Tuesday, April 02, 2019"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-3948693190812511727"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-02T07:50:16.418-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-02T07:50:16.418-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Doug,\n\nGood questions!\n\nDid she talk with many bla..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Doug,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGood questions!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDid she talk with many black people?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELots. The longest chapter in the book is her immersion into the local African-American church culture, which is wild, wonderful thing all its own. And it wasn\u0026#39;t--or at least I don\u0026#39;t think it was--just religious\/racial tourism; she got to know some of these folks very well. It\u0026#39;s pretty clear from her reporting that the very, very few locals who have genuinely benefited materially from the Vogtle plant over the years were white, and that the various land-grabs\/eminent domain claims\/pressured sales that have disrupted patterns of life in Burke County hit blacks to an even greater extent than they did whites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThat he flouts the law in a way that black people can\u0026#39;t is overdetermined.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh, absolutely. I really don\u0026#39;t think that, for all the way that Ashwood obviously found Gresham a fascinating, even romantic figure, she was at all blind to the historical privilege which enabled him to play the role he does (for example, while he speaks respectfully enough of some of his black neighbors, none of them are ever party to his illegal excursions up and down the Savannah and its tributaries). Being a rural rebel in the South is clearly a white male thing, though I\u0026#39;m going to reveal my priors by suggesting, as I think Ashwood would, that just because a set of behaviors is historically (and thus probably also violently) coded to a particular race and gender, doesn\u0026#39;t mean that it might not represent a position worth exploring ideologically.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EVigilante justice seems a much more likely outcome of widespread statelessness than does respect and valuing of dissent.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t disagree. But that doesn\u0026#39;t change the fact that the black population of Burke County didn\u0026#39;t, insofar as Ashwood\u0026#39;s years-long investigation showed, and despite its different voting habits, was apparently every bit as strong a supporter of the \u0026quot;stateless\u0026quot; ideal (or wish, really) as the white population. The history of the Confederacy and Jim Crow and the power of the national government to (in theory, anyway) save them from all that didn\u0026#39;t seem to outweigh the contempt many of the blacks she interviewed had for Southern Power, the Department of Energy, and the government of Georgia. (Though you should read the book, if you have the chance; maybe your impression will be different. One interesting note: it wasn\u0026#39;t just whites that took a greater liking to Ashwood once the word got around that her husband was Irish; there were African-Americans who explicitly talked to her as being \u0026quot;one of the oppressed\u0026quot; as well.)"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/3948693190812511727"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7907752\/6652006826656916670\/comments\/default\/3948693190812511727"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html?showComment=1554209416418#c3948693190812511727","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Russell Arben Fox"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03366800726360134194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AHG5bwVQKwY\/TUyb6aN5ASI\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/EIFp6-WYZ_o\/s220\/sideshowbob.thumbnail.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/what-urban-liberals-might-learn-from.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-6652006826656916670","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7907752/posts/default/6652006826656916670","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1949681047"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"Tuesday, April 02, 2019"}]}]}});