Behind the Bastards

One of his books is called Satan's Bushel.

What is Satan's Bushel? It is the last bushel that the farmer puts on the market that breaks the price, that is reduces it to the point that wheat farming is no longer profitable.

The puzzle that afflicts the wheat farmers is that they sell their goods when the price is low and have no goods to sell when the price is high.

Withholding goods from the market is one answer, but why should any farmer do that?

What is the answer to this problem? Working from this premise then, as implausible as it may sound, but the central figure in this book is the price of wheat. It is the main source of drama.

These publishes a book in 1940 called The Trojan Horse, in which he claims communism is a religion that has replaced religious faith with materialism.

These warns that communists were waging a psychological invasion to conquer the American way of life.

Well, now it's coming out as a paperback book through AK Press.

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Consider raindrops. You can feel them on your head, but you can't perceive the actual raindrop in itself. You can only ever perceive your particular anthropomorphic translation of the raindrops. Isn't this similar to the rift between weather, which I can feel falling on my head, and global climate? Not the older idea of local patterns of weather, but the entire system. I can think of and compute climate in this sense, but I can't directly see or touch it. The gap between the phenomenon and the thing yawns wide open, disturbing my sense of presence and being in the world.

...light itself is the most viscous thing of all, since nothing can surpass its speed.

This is it, folks! This is the ecological interconnectedness! Come in and join the fun! But I see that you're already here. Unquote.

Consider raindrops. You can feel them on your head, but you can't perceive the actual raindrop in itself. You can only ever perceive your particular anthropomorphic translation of the raindrops. Isn't this similar to the rift between weather, which I can feel falling on my head, and global climate? Not the older idea of local patterns of weather, but the entire system. I can think of and compute climate in this sense, but I can't directly see or touch it. The gap between the phenomenon and the thing yawns wide open, disturbing my sense of presence and being in the world.

Light itself is the most viscous thing of all, since nothing can surpass its speed. Radiation is Sartre's jar of honey par excellence, a luminous honey that reveals our bone structure as it seeps around us. Again, it's not a matter of making some suicidal leap into the honey, but discovering that we are already inside it. This is it, folks! This is the ecological interconnectedness! Come in and join the fun! But I see that you're already here.

The threat of global warming is not only political but also ontological. The threat of unreality is the very sign of reality itself.

Another another plant book that I just got for somebody that I really like. I think it's called Wiccan plants It's about all the poisonous plants that you can get And the ones all they're like the poison plants you can cultivate in your own garden and that's been a lovely read And I do hope to set up a decent poison garden here in the spring

Someone who wrote a really cool book that just came out David Graber who was talking about like why is it that we are seeing? all these people who are out in the streets like during occupy who are like Social workers and nurses and teachers and all this stuff. They're there's something going on here.

This is where I do my Woody Allen you know nothing of my work shtick because I had this novel Makers in 2009 I haven't read Makers yet 2008 it's why Brie Pettis went out and founded MakerBot and it's credited with like kickstarting the homebrew 3D printed revolution blah blah blah blah blah and it was a very bullish novel about 3D printing the reality hasn't lived up to the hype yet it may just be that we're in the long trough of despair as the Gartner hype cycle model has it I think the problem with 3D printing was that the patents had been concentrated into the hands of two large firms that had bought all their competitors including MakerBot and when those patents finally expired the big one was the laser centering of powder patent expired there just wasn't a big bang and I think it's because the supply chain for it still had a lot of proprietary elements and so producing the powder and producing the components that allowed for that remaining a very high bar and so we just didn't see the kind of new industry emerge that we would have hoped for and you know it's like 7 years since those patents expired or 5 years since those patents expired now we're seeing a few more of those powder printers you get a lot more UV cured epoxy printers because those came off patent earlier and they have a less complicated supply chain but still I mean powder printers we're talking about filament and just filament's just not a great technology it's been pushed in ways that you wouldn't even believe people have figured out how to do absolutely incredible things with it but it's not it's not something that you would make aerospace components for you know it's something that you make novelty Dungeons and Dragons dice out of.

There in a few copies of this have have feeding. I'm gonna read from one from 1785 it says to feed is to put a live eel up the horses fundament to make him lively and carry his tail.

And it included an array of poetic character character sketches of like unsavory types of people written by various anonymous authors one of these poems excellent Excellent One of these poems details the characteristics of an inerrant horse courser And noted that among other unsavory habits The man knows how to cover up diseases and defects of all sorts for pounding his horses arse with quicksilver And giving him suppositories of live eels.

If you want to learn about the conflict from a leftist perspective, I always recommend, and I don't know where it's going now, but I always recommend Bosnia, Kosovo, and Yugoslavia by Mike Karadzicis.

Like, and you know, talking about World War II, this was another thing. Like everybody knows that there was a period in World War II where, you know, a lot of Serbs were killed by the Ustasa and by the Nazi collaborationists. And I think obviously that's a real fear for a certain group of people who went through that. So there was a lot of that as well. You know, that's gonna happen again. That's gonna happen again. Meanwhile, there was no grand plan.

If you want to read it it is about the Bosnian genocide and it is based on real life experiences of my family and friends it's called Letters from Diaspora it's more so on the emotional side of things

I always recommend um and I don't know where it's going now but I always recommend um Bosnia Kosovo and Yugoslavia by uh Mike Karadzicis um it's the Marxist perspective on the breakup of Yugoslavia

If you want to learn about the conflict from a leftist perspective, I always recommend, and I don't know where it's going now, but I always recommend Bosnia, Kosovo and Yugoslavia by Mike Karadzic. It's the Marxist perspective on the breakup of Yugoslavia.