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2021-08-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Randolph Bourne - 1918 ' War is the Health of the State'

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-27 06:44|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I don't know if President Eisenhower, with his "beware of the MIC' had read Bourne or not, but they were both obviously on to something.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-27 06:58|| 2021-08-27 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 We are either going to find smarter ways to deal with pisslam, COVID and communism or we are going to see a lot of new tears on the same old background.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-27 07:32|| 2021-08-27 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 In the very next paragraph warning about the MIC Eisenhower also warned of the academic technological elite. That seems to have been overlooked for too long.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-27 07:42|| 2021-08-27 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 The "academic technological elite" is today known as the professional-managerial class (PMC). They've basically taken over and are running society for their own benefit. They fucking hate our guts and wish us harm. They're doing a good job of harming us, too.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-08-27 12:03|| 2021-08-27 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 (^#1, Eisenhower was long dead before Ludlum wrote the first Bourne book.)

Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-27 15:06|| 2021-08-27 15:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks for the info Glen.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-27 19:00|| 2021-08-27 19:00|| Front Page Top

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