Maxwell 'Max' Azzarello (1987, St. Augustine - April 20, 2024, New York City)
Somebody should write something at least somewhat interested about the man who set himself on fire yesterday in order to protest the emergence of fascism in America and died today on Hitler's 135th birthday.
I do not believe in leading horses to water that don't want to drink, but I still understand Max' sentiments. There are 27 posts on his substack, 23 from 2023 and 4 from this year. There are 3720 posts on this blog, including this one. Neither his nor my posts are of the sort that would demand classification in the public interest, and while any journalist would feel improperly partial engaging his thoughts, I do not.
So, I glanced at his posts and read two: his farewell letter and PayPal does a Ponzi. His cultural observations, focused on The Simpsons, presumably because The Simpsons are a relatively intelligent show, take issue with the lack of grassroots organisation in America when it comes to deciding its political future, that is civic initiative, and naturally complement his views on the so called PayPal Mafia, who seem to be getting rich by insider trading and finding suckers who invest in their at times dubious ventures.
He corroborates the latter appearance and for that alone I gladly reference him. That a generation of entrepreneurs has arisen in America who make sexual explicit jokes in public and privately consider the public to be dumb f'ers who are waiting to get fleeced is of course public knowledge by now, but Max sees a future emerging thence in which the public isn't just anymore conned, but outright robbed.
The lack of civic initiative in America is of course the flip side of individual freedom, which includes the freedom of the entrepreneur to lobby for his - and nobody else's - interests. And the more money is spent on non-tangible goods, the more lobbying occurs. And I concur that the settling in of a generation of overt cynics is ominous. But I think they'll only be the unscrupulous henchmen of the profanely redefined national interest, not our new masters. Of course, on Hitler's birthday the idea that the likes of Krupp were in charge seems particularly ridiculous, but look no further than Elon Musk to see who's doing whose bidding, who's useful for whom - and this time no one man will wrestle control out of the hands of the combined military establishment.
So, as far as the warning goes, I quite agree with Max Azzarello, but the writing was already on the wall for all to see and they ignore it, because they don't see the roles that they play, what they are to the system and what they could (only) be, for only when you see your life in the world as an encounter with a parking lot attendant who tells you where to park your car, are you equipped to grasp the instruction.
I do not believe in leading horses to water that don't want to drink, but I still understand Max' sentiments. There are 27 posts on his substack, 23 from 2023 and 4 from this year. There are 3720 posts on this blog, including this one. Neither his nor my posts are of the sort that would demand classification in the public interest, and while any journalist would feel improperly partial engaging his thoughts, I do not.
So, I glanced at his posts and read two: his farewell letter and PayPal does a Ponzi. His cultural observations, focused on The Simpsons, presumably because The Simpsons are a relatively intelligent show, take issue with the lack of grassroots organisation in America when it comes to deciding its political future, that is civic initiative, and naturally complement his views on the so called PayPal Mafia, who seem to be getting rich by insider trading and finding suckers who invest in their at times dubious ventures.
He corroborates the latter appearance and for that alone I gladly reference him. That a generation of entrepreneurs has arisen in America who make sexual explicit jokes in public and privately consider the public to be dumb f'ers who are waiting to get fleeced is of course public knowledge by now, but Max sees a future emerging thence in which the public isn't just anymore conned, but outright robbed.
The lack of civic initiative in America is of course the flip side of individual freedom, which includes the freedom of the entrepreneur to lobby for his - and nobody else's - interests. And the more money is spent on non-tangible goods, the more lobbying occurs. And I concur that the settling in of a generation of overt cynics is ominous. But I think they'll only be the unscrupulous henchmen of the profanely redefined national interest, not our new masters. Of course, on Hitler's birthday the idea that the likes of Krupp were in charge seems particularly ridiculous, but look no further than Elon Musk to see who's doing whose bidding, who's useful for whom - and this time no one man will wrestle control out of the hands of the combined military establishment.
So, as far as the warning goes, I quite agree with Max Azzarello, but the writing was already on the wall for all to see and they ignore it, because they don't see the roles that they play, what they are to the system and what they could (only) be, for only when you see your life in the world as an encounter with a parking lot attendant who tells you where to park your car, are you equipped to grasp the instruction.
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