Well, thinking about OAS and generals trying to overthrow, what they see as illegitimate democratic powers because the wrong people are voting, has me cracking open Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. I know it's a veritable Bible on the left, and maybe that's a proper analysis, because looking from the post-colonial landscape, my first impressions are that it's pretty innocent, even if I agree with some of the fire behind it (and disagree with many of the points against it, though that's usually the case)[1]

Hell, even with Gulag, I see much to take apart. And yet few do. Actually, with Gulag, I'm reading it since we're getting to have something close (or far too close for my comfort level) to Chekists here in the States. In Seattle alone, the mayor is deleting texts and the police, apparently, can overrule any civilian oversight. What does that strike one as? And given our draconian laws and how they are applied, really the Gulag system is far closer to ours than we would like (except, perhaps that they ate their own, Stalin being an equal opportunity kinda guy, while we have something like a set caste/class/racial system).

On a lighter note, I'm trying this fiction. Story starts out kinda out there so maybe I'll like it?

[1] Hell, I think there are points to take against Finkelstein's Gaza, and hell, I think that's its weaknesses are there, but you don't see that in any takedowns of the book. It all reads like the shitty call and response that's taking over the internet. Ohhh that book baaaad, so is the author. And that's it. These 1 star reviews about sum it up. 

All right, all these apes are getting me down. 

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