Like excommunication from a religious body, banning from a website is risible. It serves only to eliminate dissent in order to drive money into the pockets of the owners. To be clear, this was not a banning, but more of a purge. Luckily, these purges do not harm anyone. We can laugh at them and the little purgers, those who think they are going to amount to anything.

In a hundred days, let alone a hundred years, no one will ever read anything published on a blog.
We must educate on political theory, revolutionary theory, the principles of social organization. The irony is, one will understand what is happening with greater clarity than the barrage of tawdry outrages of political titillation which pass for informed opinion.

Then create books and publish them, and use blogs for the one thing which they are good for: advertising.

Well, except this blog, which does not have advertisements.

It takes a lot of effort to get through this material. It is one hundred percent worth it and necessary.

We possess no real knowledge about anything unless we have recreated this knowledge on our own, for ourselves. To wit, the illusion of social communication: it isn't knowledge, it isn't awareness, it isn't even sleepwalking. It is nothing more than me expressing feelings, outrage, presenting something dug up, and leaving nothing explained. Nothing. It is the antithesis of rational inquiry. It is the ideology of "evidence," taken from watching too many crime programs on TV: a court of law is an entirely fictitious ontological world. It is the very paradigm of a totalitarian regime: all information is strictly controlled, agreed to by the judge and the adversaries. As a mechanism for settling legal disputes, it is imperfect, as anyone wrongly executed for a crime she did not commit would tell you if they were not dead. As a model of epistemology, of the ability for being aware, it reflects exactly what the elites want us to believe: that we can have a "reality" without our input, without WE deciding what is real, and using critical inquiry to challenge any authority over reality. Even in science this is true: we have a theory which we accept as correct, only until it is proven false. No statute of limitations, no limits on what one can ask, and above all, no human authorities.

There will be no revolution in the US. All of the great revolutionary movements began with major pieces of intellectual work, digested by the engineers and architects of social change. Those who did the heavy mental lifting were often poor, even if they were famous. Those who understood and could express a system of thought as a plan of action were persecuted.

The point is, that there can be no lasting change without a solid foundation.

Daily Kos is a joke. I know this may come as an offense to some, who invest a great deal of time and who are able to write, who bring information about events taking place which are deemed of significance.

However, nothing changes if the struggle is not based on firm convictions, which for human beings must be grounded not in the enthusiasm of self-interest, but in reason.

I have written this before, and I will keep writing it until the message is understood.

As for the small potatoes influence peddlers of the digital world, no one is so blind as to see that restricting a clear debate about the next President serves any use except that of those who profit from censorship, which is always those with capital. They are bait-and-switch artists, building trust and then selling that trust. Capitalists and commodifiers of fears, hopes, desires, and dreams. One pretends to build a movement which reflects the neglected interests of the disestablished classes, and then, when trust has been won, abandons them and chooses self-aggrandizement.

It is the dream of the very small person, and the nightmare for everyone else who is waiting for some savior.

Be that as it may, no website is going to influence the vast majority of the voting public. Every blogger ought to know this. Sitcoms and infotainment have more influence.

One hundred forty characters being the profound literature of our age, no one who is not in a small minority of the US population will bother reading blogs. They will still listen to the mass media first and foremost, seeking to make an honest, informed decision does not challenge the convenience of their lifestyle, does not costs them much. It is cheap and it is most everyone.

This media, which controls not only political opinion, but the way we dress, how we speak, our opinions. It limits us. Not with political bias, but with a bias much more insidious, much more far-reaching: the bias of categories of self-indoctrination. That is the great failure of democracy: to prevent the indoctrination of the self. The US media are masters of this.

Others have expressed this opinion but I shall say it again: the owners of some sites are the quintessential US mentality, the "self-made persons," the "entrepreneurs." In other words, the bourgeoisie. In other words, the disposable cogs of the larger apparatus of controlling wealth, thought, education, culture. The problem is not being an entrepreneur, the problem is the ideology of being an entrepreneur, and the real tangible effects this has on destroying the fabric of a rational, integrated, whole society.

Class struggle is the defining force that shapes all modern societies. For some this means struggling out of a class into another, for others it means struggling to end the control of one class over another. Some choose the former, others the latter.

Unlike some, I think this pattern remains in place indefinitely. There is no "absolute trajectory" of human history. It continues until there is a way to stop it, and the means to stop it, and the will to stop it.

Peace and love be upon you, reader.