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I write. I take photos. I used to make things that broke things (https://t.co/Rke62RnW9x). Former VC-backed founder & NYU Professor https://t.co/ccOjYkn6tI

Apr 21, 2024, 6 tweets

Over time, I've noticed some inaccuracies or slight misrepresentations in Estulin's "Tavistock" book..but its value as a concise well-cited infogrenade far outweighs the errors

Some of Ch. 4:
If this is new info & it doesnt 🤯
...check a mirror, cuz you've already turned ghoul



To provide an example of what I mean when I write "slight misrepresentation". Estulin fixates in one of the passages above on the word "n*crophilia".

well a few months ago I finally got around to look into this which meant slogging through Adorno's verbose (probably drug-addled) writing

I am *NOT* a fan of Adorno but folks like him and Friere seem to use it as euphamism: meaning things that reduce humans to just the material.

The above quote was found in Paulo Friere's book "Pedagogy of the oppressed". I found the "n*crophilia" quote (everyone was referencing) ~556 pages deep in a snoozy analysis of Adorno's snoozy analysis of Shoenburg's SNOOZY-ass music:

The above clip is from Adorno's "Essays on Music" I've attached the full page below so you can judge yourself

Anyway, I dont like Adorno (I own a first printing of "Authoritarian Personality"), but it's important to corroborate Estulin who otherwise does a good job.
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P.S. there's another mini-thread on Adorno, David McGowan, Owsley Stanley, LSD, and The Grateful Dead (aka "The Warlocks" which was their original name 🤣) here:

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