The one thing all Canadians should understand is don’t be swayed about the DISINFORMATION COMING OUR WAY. It’ll come from CONSERVATIVES,CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS,TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION, EPOCH NEWS,REBEL NEWS, FACEBOOK,X,TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, and AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MSM. Just ignore their BULLSHIT. It’s not worth the time of day. The only thing to CONCENTRATE ON IS THE UPCOMING FEDERAL ELECTION AND GIVING PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY A CANADA STRONG MAJORITY.
This is an astounding take on how resentment develops and what drives people to their conclusions. I wonder how you would respond to say the citizens of Saskatchewan facing 100% tariffs from China on canola, about to have their industry decimated, watching Mr. Carney make his first order of business Europe? How exactly do you expect citizens to react when the very people whose job it is to safeguard our economy against the insane machinations down south prioritize shoring up Europe’s finances instead? Forget about Trump, clearly Carney thinks LeBlanc and Champagne have it handled, but do you think it’s in Carney’s interests to stand up to Xi or is that something to set aside? This drive to assign malice to Canadians fed up with the Liberals as all MAGA supporting seditionists is completely deranged. Well done further driving the wedge.
What is deranged here is your reading, clearly. Look at the title of the article: it chooses very specific targets. To be precise: individuals. There is no "drive to assign malice to Canadians fed up with the Liberals as all MAGA supporting seditionists"--you imagined this. Perhaps the hat fits in your case?
Also, what kind of "wedge" would it be, when the Maple MAGA types are such a tiny minority? I would say they have wedged themselves into a corner, yet again. It's not my job to extricate them from their own madness, delusion, and cult-like behaviour.
People give themselves away when they say things like, “perhaps the hat fits.” Your attempt at saying this is directed at a tiny segment, doesn’t fit even your own rhetoric. There is a concerted effort to portray the entire right side of the political spectrum as MAGA now. It’s dangerous for societal cohesion. But clearly you know that already given your areas of study. Your agenda here is very clear.
It is indeed a tiny segment. I think that, everywhere, I have acknowledged that Maple MAGA is a small minority in Canadian society. Nowhere do I even remotely suggest they are representative of a significant portion of Canadian society.
INSPIRED BY MAX'S CRITICAL WORK, I entered into an exchange with a fence/border-sitting friend, the gist of which is copied below. Our point of difference concerns the importance of dissent in these trying times...
Ah, Samsara! You can't live with it and you can't live without it. (Except maybe in the case of the Enlightened Ones...)
Under the reign of Samsara a great many situations appear paradoxical or downright contradictory. For instance, during those pandemic days I felt it exceedingly odd that my tightest bonds were being formed with hard-right types - even including a few Flat Earthers! Astoundingly, it would be these grizzled ignoramuses who would most likely come to my defense if push ever came to shove.
Sadly the Left to which I am sentimentally and ideologically attached, had fallen under the sway of regimism (to use Forte's expression) to the point where they were unable to perceive a State hoax, even when is was being enacted right under their very eyes.
I have yet to forgive them for that. And even if I did forgive them, there remains the question of trust, for if they sold out this once, it would be that much easier for them to do it again.
Of annexationism (which as a tendency dates back to the pre-Confederation Fenian Raids of 1866) I didn't hear much expressed locally during those heady days; but then I was not in touch with the Alberta-based western wing of the protest until the Trucker Convoy end-game. I don't have the evidence before me, but it seems likely that major US hydrocarbon interests have played a subversive propagandistic role here. Anyway, in the midst of the struggle, such views can only prove lethally divisive when it is nationalist sentiment that strengthens the people's resolve.
Yet in a samsaric world, paradox prevails, in my case setting localism over against globalism. For years I have boycotted US and Israeli goods (as best I could), yet I've never be able to declare myself a Proud Canadian without those words getting stuck in my throat.
Nor can one pretend to withdraw from the scene of struggle like a "Beautiful Soul" right out of Hegel. For then one's basic assumptions remain un-confronted, untested, festering in the darkness of the unconscious.
Indeed, we speedily become dissidents the moment the authorities turn on us personally. From that point on, we study the adversary, mobilize resources, make alliances, take risk on behalf of others, lie patiently in wait, etc.
But when the pressure lessens, we tend to put all that aside, those heady moments of contestation with actual centres of power, and instead pride ourselves on raising above the storm into a realm of non-dual quietude.
In doing so we risk falling out of rhythm, losing critical insight, turning a shoulder to those who are still caught in the gears of the machine.
In the political realm spiritual practice involves (for one thing) reducing emotional encumbrances that may possibly hinder effective action.
For some years I published poetry through an online journal titled Dissident Voice. I felt privileged to express views that diverged from mass opinion. For me "dissent" was - is - the opposite of "consent". Of course, depending upon the levels at which we function, it is possible to express dissent in the face of injustice, while embracing the universe in its entirety just as it is.
I am suspicious of the suave neocon tendency to disparage "dissent" while failing to skewer complacency with equal hauteur. With few exceptions, this tends to be a right-wing (system-affirming) political posture disguised as a spiritual accomplishment.
It's not easy to identify where we are and what we want through collective behaviour. The act of dissent separates one, subtly or violently, from the herd. That is not an easy path. Even activists get worn down and fall into line. Should we not therefore express our appreciation for those who dare, given different levels of risk, to do so?
I do remember how we in the West were supposed to support the dissidents in Soviet Russia through donations of money and outpourings of praise. Funny how things change.
PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY.
The one thing all Canadians should understand is don’t be swayed about the DISINFORMATION COMING OUR WAY. It’ll come from CONSERVATIVES,CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS,TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION, EPOCH NEWS,REBEL NEWS, FACEBOOK,X,TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, and AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MSM. Just ignore their BULLSHIT. It’s not worth the time of day. The only thing to CONCENTRATE ON IS THE UPCOMING FEDERAL ELECTION AND GIVING PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY A CANADA STRONG MAJORITY.
This is an astounding take on how resentment develops and what drives people to their conclusions. I wonder how you would respond to say the citizens of Saskatchewan facing 100% tariffs from China on canola, about to have their industry decimated, watching Mr. Carney make his first order of business Europe? How exactly do you expect citizens to react when the very people whose job it is to safeguard our economy against the insane machinations down south prioritize shoring up Europe’s finances instead? Forget about Trump, clearly Carney thinks LeBlanc and Champagne have it handled, but do you think it’s in Carney’s interests to stand up to Xi or is that something to set aside? This drive to assign malice to Canadians fed up with the Liberals as all MAGA supporting seditionists is completely deranged. Well done further driving the wedge.
What is deranged here is your reading, clearly. Look at the title of the article: it chooses very specific targets. To be precise: individuals. There is no "drive to assign malice to Canadians fed up with the Liberals as all MAGA supporting seditionists"--you imagined this. Perhaps the hat fits in your case?
Also, what kind of "wedge" would it be, when the Maple MAGA types are such a tiny minority? I would say they have wedged themselves into a corner, yet again. It's not my job to extricate them from their own madness, delusion, and cult-like behaviour.
People give themselves away when they say things like, “perhaps the hat fits.” Your attempt at saying this is directed at a tiny segment, doesn’t fit even your own rhetoric. There is a concerted effort to portray the entire right side of the political spectrum as MAGA now. It’s dangerous for societal cohesion. But clearly you know that already given your areas of study. Your agenda here is very clear.
It is indeed a tiny segment. I think that, everywhere, I have acknowledged that Maple MAGA is a small minority in Canadian society. Nowhere do I even remotely suggest they are representative of a significant portion of Canadian society.
INSPIRED BY MAX'S CRITICAL WORK, I entered into an exchange with a fence/border-sitting friend, the gist of which is copied below. Our point of difference concerns the importance of dissent in these trying times...
Ah, Samsara! You can't live with it and you can't live without it. (Except maybe in the case of the Enlightened Ones...)
Under the reign of Samsara a great many situations appear paradoxical or downright contradictory. For instance, during those pandemic days I felt it exceedingly odd that my tightest bonds were being formed with hard-right types - even including a few Flat Earthers! Astoundingly, it would be these grizzled ignoramuses who would most likely come to my defense if push ever came to shove.
Sadly the Left to which I am sentimentally and ideologically attached, had fallen under the sway of regimism (to use Forte's expression) to the point where they were unable to perceive a State hoax, even when is was being enacted right under their very eyes.
I have yet to forgive them for that. And even if I did forgive them, there remains the question of trust, for if they sold out this once, it would be that much easier for them to do it again.
Of annexationism (which as a tendency dates back to the pre-Confederation Fenian Raids of 1866) I didn't hear much expressed locally during those heady days; but then I was not in touch with the Alberta-based western wing of the protest until the Trucker Convoy end-game. I don't have the evidence before me, but it seems likely that major US hydrocarbon interests have played a subversive propagandistic role here. Anyway, in the midst of the struggle, such views can only prove lethally divisive when it is nationalist sentiment that strengthens the people's resolve.
Yet in a samsaric world, paradox prevails, in my case setting localism over against globalism. For years I have boycotted US and Israeli goods (as best I could), yet I've never be able to declare myself a Proud Canadian without those words getting stuck in my throat.
Nor can one pretend to withdraw from the scene of struggle like a "Beautiful Soul" right out of Hegel. For then one's basic assumptions remain un-confronted, untested, festering in the darkness of the unconscious.
Indeed, we speedily become dissidents the moment the authorities turn on us personally. From that point on, we study the adversary, mobilize resources, make alliances, take risk on behalf of others, lie patiently in wait, etc.
But when the pressure lessens, we tend to put all that aside, those heady moments of contestation with actual centres of power, and instead pride ourselves on raising above the storm into a realm of non-dual quietude.
In doing so we risk falling out of rhythm, losing critical insight, turning a shoulder to those who are still caught in the gears of the machine.
In the political realm spiritual practice involves (for one thing) reducing emotional encumbrances that may possibly hinder effective action.
For some years I published poetry through an online journal titled Dissident Voice. I felt privileged to express views that diverged from mass opinion. For me "dissent" was - is - the opposite of "consent". Of course, depending upon the levels at which we function, it is possible to express dissent in the face of injustice, while embracing the universe in its entirety just as it is.
I am suspicious of the suave neocon tendency to disparage "dissent" while failing to skewer complacency with equal hauteur. With few exceptions, this tends to be a right-wing (system-affirming) political posture disguised as a spiritual accomplishment.
It's not easy to identify where we are and what we want through collective behaviour. The act of dissent separates one, subtly or violently, from the herd. That is not an easy path. Even activists get worn down and fall into line. Should we not therefore express our appreciation for those who dare, given different levels of risk, to do so?
I do remember how we in the West were supposed to support the dissidents in Soviet Russia through donations of money and outpourings of praise. Funny how things change.