Monthly Archives: October 2011

Occupy Jerusalem with the People’s Front of Judea

Posted on October 30, 2011 by dwighttowers

OK, via rhizome.coop (Facilitating occupation Posted on October 30, 2011)  I found this video, which is a celebration of the “process” of “consensus” at Occupy Wall Street. Erm, grumpy old man here, but the bit (1;20ish) where one guy says “there … Continue reading →

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Youtube: The Propaganda Model

Posted on October 30, 2011 by dwighttowers

More or less. Herman and Chomsky, with knob gags…

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Youtube: Commodity Fetishism for Beginners

Posted on October 29, 2011 by dwighttowers

You’d think with the word fetish in the title this would go gang-busters on the youtube. But no…

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Youtubes to be made in 2012

Posted on October 28, 2011 by dwighttowers

Hell, I enjoy making them, and they get a few views (more if I did the boring grunt work of publicising them…) So, if you’ve seen any of my videos, please throw comments my way, re: style and subject matter. … Continue reading →

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Timing is everything…

Posted on October 27, 2011 by dwighttowers

Oh boy. Six months on a chain gang for riding on a bus. Obviously, civil disobedience is no panacea. The timing must be right, the tactic, apt. Originality counts. One size does not fit all. The first Freedom Rides were … Continue reading →

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Youtube: Wicked Problems and Climate Change

Posted on October 26, 2011 by dwighttowers

Two bits of good news – climate change is not a wicked problem Helena Christensen cavorting on a beach

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Activists and Militants and Social Entrepreneurs…

Posted on October 25, 2011 by dwighttowers

From Todd Gitlin’s “Letters to a young activist” – when he’s not taking gratuitous and inaccurate pot shots (is there another kind) at Noam Chomsky, he’s actually worth reading… By contrast, in this mainly antipolitical era, the label of choice … Continue reading →

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Youtube: Hitler learns his Leonard Cohen tickets are fakes

Posted on October 24, 2011 by dwighttowers

Standard disclaimers about Constantin Films owning copyright, satire, fair use, Article 17 etc etc

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“Many people go from infancy to senility without ever achieving maturity.”

Posted on October 23, 2011 by dwighttowers

Attributed to some chap* called IAR Wylie (by Willard and Marguerite Beecher on page 89 of their 1966 book Beyond Success and Failure Simon and Schuster Books. Reminds me of that Clemenceau line about the United States – “America is … Continue reading →

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Am I bovvered? And if so, why?

Posted on October 22, 2011 by dwighttowers

When we complain about what someone is doing that annoys us, we are really not complaining about him at all. We are complaining about our own character. We make a fuss about what he is doing, but that is useless … Continue reading →

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