Whew! Scary! I wonder if we as Americans are going to just blindly walk into a third reich. Most people I know are actively resisting, but blindness to the “grooming”. abounds. I will remain maladjusted to all things Trump.
It's a great quote. I'm sure it's published somewhere on the internet, but the edited book of speeches and writings by MLK Jr, titled I have a dream is also excellent.
I liked what you had to say: the Martin Luther King quote, the Volkswagen background story. You make valid and enlightening points. I would say, though, that the comparison with Trump's episode of buying the Tesla went too far, as I believe it was merely a publicity stunt, not an orchestrated systematic effort like that made by the Nazis in the late 1930s regarding the Volkswagen. You mention the colours worn by Trump and Musk on the day of the stunt and frankly I can't see beyond the fact of two men with no dress sense but nothing more. I hope you don't mind this little criticism. The mere fact of making your readers (mostly American, I guess) looking back to something that happened in the 1930s is a worthwhile achievement in and of itself, given the American population's general ignorance of its own history and other people's. Please continue writing and bear with the occasional comment of the "half-empty glass" type (ie "is it half-empty or half-full?")
Thanks for commenting. I stand by what I wrote. To your point, I did cede that there were distinctions between the two events. And at the time of the 1938 unveiling, some have made the argument that because the KdF-Wagen was never delivered, the announcement during Berlin Auto Show was a publicity stunt that served a particular agenda.
We never see the full mechanism of systemic exploitation until we've had the perspective that comes with distance and time (something Latin American liberation theologian Gustavo Gutierrez mentions).
However, I don't think you're familiar enough with my work to know that I'm consistency beating the drums of advocacy and activism, which includes writing and teaching others of the United States's complicity or direct instances of conquest as empire/regime builders, from Latin America to Hawaii to the Philippines. (I am a Filipina American). I'm also well aware that Hitler himself was influenced by American, Henry Ford, as well as some of the most harmful rhetoric prevalent in many churches in the U.S.
I'm glad to engage, but I'm also professionally and personally boundaried against taking advice from men on the internet with whom I have no pre-existing relationship. Many folks would disagree with you: What the Trump administration is doing across the board from detaining immigrants to cutting gov't jobs to making slight shifts in laws around segregation is a systemic effort to "adjust" folks to oppression.
Whew! Scary! I wonder if we as Americans are going to just blindly walk into a third reich. Most people I know are actively resisting, but blindness to the “grooming”. abounds. I will remain maladjusted to all things Trump.
🙌 Stay maladjusted. The maladjusted see when emperors desensitize others to oppression.
Thank you for this. I’ve never heard that particular MLK quote before, and I won’t be forgetting it.
It's a great quote. I'm sure it's published somewhere on the internet, but the edited book of speeches and writings by MLK Jr, titled I have a dream is also excellent.
Brilliant!
Thank you! This one was interesting to write. And doing the research for up my alley.
"Be so maladjusted that you just might be a part of changing the world. Get weird with it."
Thank you for this.
I liked what you had to say: the Martin Luther King quote, the Volkswagen background story. You make valid and enlightening points. I would say, though, that the comparison with Trump's episode of buying the Tesla went too far, as I believe it was merely a publicity stunt, not an orchestrated systematic effort like that made by the Nazis in the late 1930s regarding the Volkswagen. You mention the colours worn by Trump and Musk on the day of the stunt and frankly I can't see beyond the fact of two men with no dress sense but nothing more. I hope you don't mind this little criticism. The mere fact of making your readers (mostly American, I guess) looking back to something that happened in the 1930s is a worthwhile achievement in and of itself, given the American population's general ignorance of its own history and other people's. Please continue writing and bear with the occasional comment of the "half-empty glass" type (ie "is it half-empty or half-full?")
Thanks for commenting. I stand by what I wrote. To your point, I did cede that there were distinctions between the two events. And at the time of the 1938 unveiling, some have made the argument that because the KdF-Wagen was never delivered, the announcement during Berlin Auto Show was a publicity stunt that served a particular agenda.
We never see the full mechanism of systemic exploitation until we've had the perspective that comes with distance and time (something Latin American liberation theologian Gustavo Gutierrez mentions).
However, I don't think you're familiar enough with my work to know that I'm consistency beating the drums of advocacy and activism, which includes writing and teaching others of the United States's complicity or direct instances of conquest as empire/regime builders, from Latin America to Hawaii to the Philippines. (I am a Filipina American). I'm also well aware that Hitler himself was influenced by American, Henry Ford, as well as some of the most harmful rhetoric prevalent in many churches in the U.S.
I'm glad to engage, but I'm also professionally and personally boundaried against taking advice from men on the internet with whom I have no pre-existing relationship. Many folks would disagree with you: What the Trump administration is doing across the board from detaining immigrants to cutting gov't jobs to making slight shifts in laws around segregation is a systemic effort to "adjust" folks to oppression.