Very sad news about Matt Christman. Best wishes to him and his family for his recovery. I know we can't focus on it constantly, and it'd be unhealthy to try, but life really can radically change any moment. Embrace the things and people you love, and take nothing for granted.

Just heard the news that Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House is in hospital. Hoping he has a speedy recovery.

The UAW Strike and the Suppression of Politics x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

As the crisis of capitalism is taken up and transformed into a crisis between elites our collective understanding is attentuated. We are asked to forget at an ever increasing pace even as the apparatus of distraction sputters. forbes.com/sites/dereksau…

The Truman Show Is a Critique of Capitalism youtu.be/TzuDF4kWzPw?si… via YouTube

Now on Audible: The Death of the Millennial Left #AudibleApp audible.com/pd/B0CKDHK18F?…

Tomorrow's Stream: Hamas and Israel: Choose a Side? youtube.com/live/4WMViY6z4… via YouTube

Chris Cutrone on the Left, Hamas, and Socialism youtu.be/-6v_4MEI4bA?si… via YouTube

A Palestianian Calls For Cold Historical Analysis youtube.com/live/zKbUdTRJ2… via YouTube

New Podcast: On Our Secret Desire for Terrorism (Baudrillard and Debord) youtu.be/TAngC-cUuJU?si… via YouTube

New Video: Understanding Generation X and Hegel's Science of Logic youtu.be/se_pIkSHNZc?si… via YouTube

Check out our new channel on Generation X youtu.be/d505LPrlpt0?si… via YouTube

While I'm sure it's utterly harrowing to be in a Western city and have to witness political protests -- and this one, like most of its kind, have many Jews at it -- it's a bit more harrowing to a Palestinian in Gaza, endlessly bombed while food, water and medicine are blockaded.

New Video: Understanding Hegel and Understanding Generation X youtu.be/se_pIkSHNZc?si… via YouTube

Can't decide if this has a Wes Anderson feel or a Kubrick feel.

"The task of overcoming capitalism will not be achieved through a People’s revolution.  But worse, it is not simply insufficient – the revolt of the “People” is the greatest resource that capitalism has." sublationmag.com/post/which-sid…

"[Putnam's] data show the key role of moral change in transitioning from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era. In around 1900 ordinary Americans “became convinced … they had a moral duty to worry about other people… changed from an ‘I’ morality to a ‘we’ morality.” Reforms now

"The evolutionary psychologist envisions a republic that both makes productive use of human nature by harnessing an innate competitive spirit to drive economic growth  and protects against the worst consequences of the same by suppressing the instinct to steal."

Can we create art in the spirit of Gustave Courbet in this age of social media and state capitalist domination? youtube.com/watch?v=DjBa8U…