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CJ, this is a great video and I agree with everything you and Gunnar say...even as I wonder what happened to the 10's of thousands of German peaceful anti-mask/anti-lockdown protestors in the center of Berlin I watched on the Off-G video for hours one Saturday last summer. Also, I have much more to share...maybe because I'm so much older than you, two, who did not live through the horrific 50's McCarthyism here in the US when I was an undergrad...and so much more...because I'm a Great Depression baby born on a ranch in the NW corner of Oklahoma near the panhandle & dust-bowl...as I witness our rushing toward either an even greater depression or nuclear apocalypse if we don't turn these neo-lib & neo-con imperial idiots and the plutocracy that owns them around. I'm a retired psychologist from the UNC Dept. of Psychiatry still living in NC but I've lived all over this country & traveled the world...including much of Asia, Europe, Morocco, most of Mexico, Cuba & beyond. I you want to continue the discussion, get in touch with me via my pathetic Century Link email: jranc@q.com (formerly of Qwest, hence the "q"), then I'll shift to a better venue. Meanwhile, consider the book/the work of former Oxford literature prof.-turned psychiatrist/neuroscientist, Iain McGilchrist, the 2019 updated edition of his "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World". However, I sent him an email recommending that a better/truer title would be "The Mistress and Her Emissary" (Eros over Thanatos) if we're to save ourselves from extinction, but he rejected it. Never-the-less, I think he's on the mark with his analysis of the "left hemisphere" of the (male) brain dominating our "Western Empire"...to our peril. I intend to get back to my former psychiatry colleagues, who are now deep into neuro-psychiatry....to compare notes. And as for the "Liberal Social Engineering", I first spotted it in the mid-70's with their Evangelical Busing for Integration & actually got a little satirical verse, "Bus Grown-ups" published as an op-ed in The NYTimes...as it was then something of a "paper of record" integrity...compared to The Imperial/International Propaganda Tabloid it's become in this 21st century. Also, note that the prophetic Dave Eggers (living in the Bay Area) foresaw the Silicon Billionaires' Totalitarianism in the making with his novel, "The Circle". But waaaaaay before that, Zamitan (sp?), the Soviet era Russian satirist & his novel, "WE", characters (with tattooed # IDs) marching around in their "blue unis" (uniforms) features foretells the likes of the submissive-obedient conformists we see marching around in their blue muzzles today. Yes, one of the Russian Solzhenitsyn scholars I know has been warning me about the "Sovietization" of US ("WE", the people) that he observes. But finally, you've missed the meaning of the "Trump is US" phenomenon (which I could not get publshed) and of the Russophobia (published by Strategic-Culture as "Russophobia a WMD (Weapon of Mass Deception" 4/13/19) he tried to reverse with his intention "to get along with Russia" (if only to "Make Money/Not War". In fact, I think the last....very last...chance to save what may be left of the original American Republic from its Delusional Imperialism (my diagnosis) lies with "the deplorables" out there in the "Heartland", who live in their bodies, not their heads (like would-be East & West Coast "Intellectuals", whom Thomas Piketty has dubbed the "Brahman Left" & the "Mercantile Right", which have been bought off by the Plutocracy, which they serve...together with the bought-off politicians, mainstream media hired scribes, puppet "scientists" like Fauci, etc.) No, I was not/am not a Trump supporter but I recognize that when all of our Incompetent Ruling Elite, the politicians & intelligentsia they own fail ordinary people, demagogues rise up to lead them...& such as the Koch Bros jump in to buy the likes of the 2009 Tea Party revolt/folks, who knew in their bones & health care insurance premium bones, that Obama-could-Care-less had betrayed them. & such was George Wallace leading the parents, who rebelled against that decade's Social Engineering Experiment on their children.

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CJ: After watching this video, I purchased your second book of essays and Zone 23. However, I did not become a paid member of your newsletter. I look forward to reading your writings and, perhaps, contributing to your newsletter in the future. Amazing interview. I learned a lot. Thank you.

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OK CJ, you lack the grace to respond to my comment & questions below...so I'm unsubscribing.

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The link to the mirrored video on YT is dead. Taken down by YT.

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