Caroline enthusiastically welcomes Nancy MacLean, author of “Democracy in Chains,”
that we may understand the increasing, and long-planned threat to democracy… and the urgency of our Now.
Gotta see the long-forged chains, in order to remove them….
Today’s Full Moon’s image is “A party of campers packing their canoe at twilight – the ability to navigate dark water.” We set forth, with this book in our canoe, to deeply understand the deep rooted organizational dementor competence underneath the apparent chaos.
Nancy MacLean is an increasingly influential award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, is essential reading for all who care about democracy, and the fate of the Earth. MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. Her research focuses on race, gender, labor history and social movements in 20th century U.S. history, with particular attention to the U.S. South.
Democracy in Chains (2017)
In 2017 MacLean published Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. This book focused on the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan and his work developing public choice theory, as well as the roles of Charles Koch and others, in nurturing the libertarian movement in the United States. MacLean showed how these figures undertook “a stealth bid to reverse-engineer all of America, at both the state and national levels back to the political economy and oligarchic governance of midcentury Virginia, minus the segregation.” According to MacLean, Buchanan represents “the true origin story of today’s well-heeled radical right.” (Wikipedia)
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Arthur Rackham
River Guide Bard, David Grimes says,
“in the most turbulent of rapids – there’s always a silver tongue of calm,”
So, here to help us navigate the rapids – be Nancy MacLean!
let’s glide into that silver tongue of calm, and off we go….
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Woo-hoo team, so much we must know
about the long-planned highly organized “libertarian” movement
to destroy democracy, and the state, (O, and completely pillage the Earth)
blatantly long-dedicated to ending:
*Public School
*Social Security (privatize)
*pensions
*Postal Service
*Minimum wage
*prohibitions against child labor laws
*the EPA
*and the environmental movement…
*end taxes
*and all gov regulations
*sell off all public lands
*privatize everything
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(My CPAC adventure with a man who wanted to
“play the games that I want to play.”
To whom I responded,
“the essence of games is rules…Limits… only so much water on this planet…”
So he said, “hmm, I guess I better re-think my, what did you call it? metaphor?!”
Yes!
Let’s all re-think…
our metaphors, as the Intelligence of Metaphors, Neptune be stationing now,
retrograde tomorrow…
illusion in ludo- in the game
or delusion de-ludo – out of the game…
Neptune – the Intelligence of Water and thus reversal magic…
(Water reflects a reverse image)
May all not dedicated to collective well-being be as a swooshy boomerang,
back to its source to be dissolved back into the gurgling swamp…
to be metabolized by Swamp Thing..
(We like swamps, and certainly don’t want to “drain swamps,”
but call upon their digestive burping Intelligence.)
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The quirky hunger for authoritarianism, so prevalent in our current cultural mix,
has its propaganda machinery, inciting violence, on which the dementors feast….
and is to be taken seriously,
and yes, therefore, mocked…
Marcel Marceau
Liberating Cultural High Jinx
most welcome now…
(See Change the Ref on Twitter, Manuel Oliver’s honoring of his school shooting slain son Joachin)… *posted earlier*
Venus opposite Pluto-
we see the description of the war on life;
and the instructions-
that our dedication to collective well-being, grow our collective structures…
Let us all declare our manifestos of dedicated devotion…
Jupiter (Perijove Pass, JunoCam, NASA 2017)
and note the generosity of Jupiter stationing in Pisces
trining the Sun, newly entered Big Momma’s Cancerian realm…
That we reach back into our personal and collective history
for all guiding collaborative Wisdom, kindness, and beauty,
all, that has brought forth the best in our rogue species…
and for bonus Luck!
Jupiter quintiles Uranus, the two biggest path openers,
agents of desirable Miracles,
that we may open portals for grace to pour into the World…
(I only had her birthday, but noon time works pretty great…)
Let’s note (and vote for) her necessary expanding influence,
as Neptune stations tomorrow-(Friday 12:21 pm edt) at 23= Pisces,
exactly trining her Jupiter – 23+ Scorpio,
whose image is “a woman delivers a sermon on a mount.”
(also, for fun Terrence McKenna’s Sun…
ancestor Terrence is welcome to add entheogenic brew to our cultural mix now..)
We love her Leo capacity to illuminate the dark,
to be an agent for collaborative tolerance (her Pluto),
cahooting with all Women Trickster heroines, Scheherezade’s sisters…
that we may liberate the entire circumstance…
be agents of liberating all from delusional bamboozling trance…
and dedicated to the beauty of ingenious altruism….as
democracy and Beauty are neck and neck with tyranny and cruelty..
We’re betting on, and riding- Democracy and Beauty…
The beautiful Pillars of Creation, part of an active star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula. This image – from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2017 – is one of the most highly detailed to date. Image via NASA/ ESA/ Hubble Heritage Team
