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Charles...I thought you and Sarah were leaving me along. OK... I have no idea what Sarah is talking about...it makes no sense....as Trump's tweet makes no sense. I am not involved in any rhetoric: the key issue with the wildfires is not climate change, but total mismanagement of our forests, human's starting fires, invasive flammable species, and people moving into the urban-wildland interface. Happy to have another debate with your on the record about this. Regarding Trump...he is totally confused. The fires have NOTHING to do with regulations regarding the use of water. Where in the world is he getting this? No idea what he means by "tree clear"...but if he means that we need to thin our forests and remove all the slash...making the forests like there were before we messed them up....he would be correct. Anyway, you and Sarah seem to have a lot of facts wrong about West Coast wildfires.

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I love it, man.

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"...nothing in the system can be recovered. The whole of it has to go. The late and brilliant Moishe Postone was also on this wavelength."

This could not be further from the truth. On the contrary:
(from his essay Anachronism of Value)

"As an aside, it should be noted that within this framework, the idea of another possible form of social life, beyond capitalism, is immanent to capitalist modernity itself. It is not derived from cultural contact or the ethnographic study of fundamentally different forms of social life; nor is it based on the experience of a previous social order with its own moral economy that is being destroyed by capitalism [...]"
and
"Marx’s analysis is directed less toward the emergence of “resistance,” (which is politically and historically indeterminate) than toward the possibility of transformation. It seeks to delineate the emergence of a form of life that, as a result of capitalism’s dynamic, is constituted as a historical
possibility, and yet is constrained by that very dynamic from being realized. This gap between what is and what could be, allows for a future possibility that, increasingly, has become real historically."
and
"It is capital, itself, as objectified human capacities, which generates the possibility of a future society. Yet it does so in a form that, at the same time, is increasingly destructive of the environment and the working population."

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The future world of "Children of Men" was in fact imagined by P.D. James, who wrote the novel that the film was based on. Alfonso CuarĂłn did a brilliant job of translating it to the screen, but both people deserve credit for the final work.

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PD James! Came here to say this. HUGE oversight to not credit the writer. Especially bad to overlook a woman writing in sci fi. Fix it!


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