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Originally Posted by John Whitworth
William, I hate to see you battling on your own. I think I can say that nobody takes me for a leftist. So let me join you and George Orwell. Socialism is dead but it won't lie down, so let's jump on it a little.
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Thanks John! How Jolly! To use your expression. But don't forget: George Orwell WAS a socialist. He was committed to the utopian dream, but in his fiction, he managed to paint a really ugly picture of the possible futures of extremism from the right AND the left. So, he sort of shot himself in the foot. BUT, I wish I had one one-hundredth of his stamina and intellectual power. He will always be one of my heroes. Socialist/great novelist, I don't care which. He ROCKS.
So where the hell are all those in the center and on the right from those gloriously long threads from 2002-2009 or thereabouts? I love to read those old threads, to see differing views, a battling of ideas. But at present there are but you and I, John.
Bill Carpenter, pretty much a conservative, may come by; and Jennifer Reeser is no lefty; and of course there's Tim Murphy, firmly on the conservative side. And there's David Anthony. But none of these people join in these discussions anymore, except for a one-liner here and there.
I am at my wit's end. Or is that wits' end? I stink at grammar.
So, I am going to post another video, from a man I never heard of until about a half hour ago. This will certainly ruffle the feathers of anyone committed to the far left (and I can already hear the choruses of "Oh, that guy? No one who's
serious would pay any attention to him, since he's a bigoted-white-supremacist-patriarchal-misogynistic-anti-gay-hate-speaking-fascist-Nazi oppressor!") :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPojltjv4M0&t=607s - Jordan Peterson