I'm Buying Stock in Pitchfork Companies Now

 

 Yves absolutely nails it with this article:

What Will the Real American Resistance Look Like — Chaotic Rebellion or Organized General Strikes?

 "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
—Jay Gould, 1886

It’s normally a bad idea to denigrate the other side’s supporters in a fight, especially in a political fight like the one we’re currently witnessing, and especially when the game that’s really being played is the oligarch’s version of Eric Berne’s “Let’s You and Him Fight” — the one where the rich get the poor to kill each other, while they steal the both of them blind."

Ouroboros

I was this old when I learned that a serpent eating its tail is known as an: Ouroboros

How Do You Spell Kakistocracy Again?

 "The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency during the coronavirus pandemic while states expand mail-in voting options for the November presidential election."

House Dems summon postal leaders to hearing on mail delays 

Time To Fight

From the article outlining why Wisconsin might be in play for Joe Biden:

 How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate

 "His current mood reminded him of an unruly cow that once wandered off his farm. “I was on a four-wheeler and was trying to round her up,” he said. “I chased her round and round. Then she got tired of me chasing her and she stopped, turned, and she was going to fight. She was too tired to run, but she was going to use what she had left. She was challenging me—she was going to fight. I guess that’s where I’m at. I’m running my ass off, I’m tired, and I don’t have the energy to run anymore. But, by God, I’ve got enough in me to stand here and fight.”

Generous Orthodoxy

I'm cruising thru the back catalog of "Revisionist History" and came across the episode titled "Generous Orthodoxy" (Season 1 Episode 9) 

 In Malcoms own words, generous orthodoxy is "...comes from a theologian named Hans Frei. It’s an oxymoron, of course. To be orthodox is to be committed to tradition. To be generous, as Frei defines it, is to be open to change. But Frei thought the best way to live our lives was to find the middle ground because orthodoxy without generosity leads to blindness and generosity without orthodoxy is shallow and empty. One of the hardest things in the world is to find that balance. Not just for those pursuing a life of faith but for anyone interested in making their world better. I think Chester Wenger shows us the way."

Here is the letter mentioned in Malcom Gladwells article

An Open Letter To My Beloved Church

Why Isn't this A Movie Already

Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth

Good lawd that story from the Smithsonian magazine has it all. I dare you to read it and tell me it doesn't deserve to be a movie (if even only a made for tv movie)

I'm With Cathy O'Neil on This One

From Cathy O'Neils article: The political uprising we should have expected

"The aftermath of the coronavirus is likely to include a new political uprising—an Occupy Wall Street 2.0, but this time much more massive and angrier. Once the health emergency is over, we will see the extent to which rich, well-connected and well-resourced communities will have been taken care of, while contingent, poor and stigmatized communities will have been thoroughly destroyed. Moreover, we will have seen how political action is possible—multitrillion dollar bailouts and projects can be mobilized quickly—but only if the cause is considered urgent. This mismatch of long-disregarded populations finally getting the message that their needs are not only chronically unattended, but also chronically dismissed as politically required, will likely have drastic, pitchfork consequences."