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p.76 the claim that Chomsky would assert “no one brings these facts to light except for me” is extremely subjective, to me what Chomsky tried to express is simply “these need to be discussed”. So far I only think the content after p.82 is worth reading, it’s an interesting analogy of using the movie Matrix to describe the left. Otherwise this book is full of straw men.

So, regarding 911, let’s ask this fundamental question: why it was in NY? Why it was not Tokyo that has been bombed? Why is was not Bangkok, or Helsinki, or Minsk, or Bueno Aires, or Lisboa, or Geneva? Why are the Islamic fundamentalist so fixated on the US? Because US is a bad cop?

It seems that the author is the marginalized one, after witnessing the horrendous military action by Obama administration, after hearing the jaw dropping remarks on the refugees that “look like us”, after the spectacular kidnapping, we now can confirm the elephant in the room is indeed an elephant.

p. 244 “in capitalist countries opponents were not beaten to death and shipped home is sealed coffins”, but the citizens of the capitalist countries are fed the blood of the citizens abroad, the iraqis, the vietnamese, the afghanis, the somalis, the Algerians, etc., so that the oppressed are happy.

The previous sections of the chapter “Walter Benjamin “ was kind of too trivial but essential in a sense that those topics are of important part of his thought but how it was written made it too fragmented to be appreciated.

Does philosophy ever try to prove itself?

p.95, it seems that “Isak Dinesen” is rather a critics of a badly written biography.
p.111, “The circuit of Broch’s life and creativity,..was not actually a circle; rather, it resembled a triangle whose sides can be accurately labeled: Literature-Knowledge-Action.”

I found her statement about fraternity and friendship regarding human emancipation absurd. And when I think of it, non of her statements are testable, I guess that why she’s a philosopher rather than political scientist.

Dark Times: in which the public realm has been obscured and the world become so dubious that people have ceased to ask any more of politics than that it show due consideration for their vital interests and personal liberty.

p.10 “The pillars of the best-known truths…today lie shattered”, but have we ever asked if the pillars we do proudly relied upon, are illusions?

I think I probably have to read those the books by those authors first to know all the references.

p133, the fact that the volume of a hyperball with a radius of 1 peaks in the fifth dimension is the most mind blowing thing I've read for the entire year.

Honey cake and Sprite.

People keep on using the analogy of an orchestra without a conductor while not mentioning every performer in the orchestra must be trained for years, even decades, to perform and since they are in a orchestra they must be sharing common music background, training, altitude, etc., while our society members only tried to figure out what is EU after Brexit became reality.

I think we should stop romanizing the effect of the movements and the grievances from the margin. Protest is the demonstration of anger, but it is also just an emotional drama. While not focusing on the solution, or destructive attempt, history would never progress.

A musician without instrument, only notes; this is what I think of the idea of the multitude. The left in the past few decades decapitated itself, cutting the "common" into tiny pieces we call minority group, gender, sexual orientation, migrant, and whatsoever but non of them has a clear plan to exercise what mind be necessary to the ordinary people.

The major issue is, lack of empirical evidence. One example is regarding the decentralized organization structure for resistance, and clearly all the examples provided actually failed to make substantial change, or simply, failed as being crashed entirely.