Journalist and professor Christian Parenti’s latest NonSite (the Adolph Reed site) article, The First Privilege Walk, has, among other things, one of the greatest subtitles of all time: How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble.
Cynthia Chung has done some great work in a series of articles of the history of Frankfurt School and the various movements and cults that were associated with it both before and after it. Check it out. It is very good!
It sucks people actually believe Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Peanuts Gallery when they say they seek to forgive $10,000 - $50,000 of student loans. These characters know perfectly well that such thing is untenable.
Two common sense reasons it will never happen:
(1) As Matt alluded to, much of what students borrow are funds designated as living expense funds. For many, these borrowed funds may become intermingled with other funds that go toward the occasional night out, Apple premium laptop, or spring break vacation. Politicians will simply argue that forgiving these type of loans incentivizes “moral hazard.” You can hear Ted Cruze saying something like, “I ain’t paying for your margarita machine.”
(2) Even if they were sincere, they’re not simply going to forgive the debt of present day borrowers and stop there. They’re not going to say, “Sorry, you took your loan out in 2023. You’re out of luck.” Fairness requires a commitment to future borrowers as well. - Something that requires Congress, and a complete paradigm shift, not a simple executive order from poopy pants Biden.
Fortunately, there’s realistic hope. Curiously, perhaps irritatingly, it comes from Anthony Rubio. He has proposed a bill that eliminates all interest for every student loan. After all, the government shouldn’t be profiting off student loan borrowers. Borrowers are only required to pay the principle and a one-time servicing fee.
I’m not saying vote for the guy. I’m saying that Democrats have an opportunity to steal the idea and make it their own before 2024. Otherwise, millennials and under will stay home.
I though there was a "full interview" here? This sounds like the same interview that's on Youtube. Am I just not seeing the link to the full episode or do I need a higher subscription level than the 40$ one?
Parenti blames “Marcuse‘s wife“ for lack of honest posts on the Internet. She died in 1988 five years before the first Internet browser was publicly released. See a full rebuttal that takes apart his psychobabble at the Herbert Marcuse website
Youtube is making me cut out the Isn't That Terrible Jimmy Fallon Christmas song
Where is the rest of the interview?
I’m a subscriber, at Useful idiots.substat.com but I don’t see where I can hear the second half of the Parenti interview. Please advise.
Video shows that it’s unavailable on YouTube
also on facebook : someone modeling face masks, but just 3, in the microkini like strategic places.
Cynthia Chung has done some great work in a series of articles of the history of Frankfurt School and the various movements and cults that were associated with it both before and after it. Check it out. It is very good!
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/
Most of the left is ignoring a worldwide uprising:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EX5jW-bvRxI
Will you be a human or a slave? That's not a rhetorical question.
It sucks people actually believe Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Peanuts Gallery when they say they seek to forgive $10,000 - $50,000 of student loans. These characters know perfectly well that such thing is untenable.
Two common sense reasons it will never happen:
(1) As Matt alluded to, much of what students borrow are funds designated as living expense funds. For many, these borrowed funds may become intermingled with other funds that go toward the occasional night out, Apple premium laptop, or spring break vacation. Politicians will simply argue that forgiving these type of loans incentivizes “moral hazard.” You can hear Ted Cruze saying something like, “I ain’t paying for your margarita machine.”
(2) Even if they were sincere, they’re not simply going to forgive the debt of present day borrowers and stop there. They’re not going to say, “Sorry, you took your loan out in 2023. You’re out of luck.” Fairness requires a commitment to future borrowers as well. - Something that requires Congress, and a complete paradigm shift, not a simple executive order from poopy pants Biden.
Fortunately, there’s realistic hope. Curiously, perhaps irritatingly, it comes from Anthony Rubio. He has proposed a bill that eliminates all interest for every student loan. After all, the government shouldn’t be profiting off student loan borrowers. Borrowers are only required to pay the principle and a one-time servicing fee.
I’m not saying vote for the guy. I’m saying that Democrats have an opportunity to steal the idea and make it their own before 2024. Otherwise, millennials and under will stay home.
I got kicked off the ad free version & your second email leads to not available video??
I though there was a "full interview" here? This sounds like the same interview that's on Youtube. Am I just not seeing the link to the full episode or do I need a higher subscription level than the 40$ one?
Matt’s obvious lack of understanding of Marcuse is revealed https://sites.google.com/site/marcusesociety/publications?authuser=0
Parenti blames “Marcuse‘s wife“ for lack of honest posts on the Internet. She died in 1988 five years before the first Internet browser was publicly released. See a full rebuttal that takes apart his psychobabble at the Herbert Marcuse website
https://sites.google.com/site/marcusesociety/publications?authuser=0
It's saying the video is unavailable.