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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

2 Jun

There is no reason for Bill Gates to own more farmland than anyone else in America.
There is no reason for any human to own more of Earth than a modest portion which they personally occupy and tend.
"The Tragedy of the Commons" was literally a made-up story. Those events never.

But billionaires have made it happen in the oceans of the world, much of it in my one lifetime.
Now that we know the whole cycle of plastic, there is no moral or social excuse to continue to make it.
There's a money excuse.
Every destructive act on Earth is somebody's job.

3. Observe the media. Observe your Twitter feed. Observe politics.
The entire discussion is around an ever-changing yet never-changing set of talking points from both sides.
That's it, pretty much.
"We need to get MT green🤮 out of Congress!"
Why? She's just a noise machine.

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

1 Jun

I acknowledge the sins of my fathers, and regret them.
However, on a day to day basis I am more interested in finding ways to move forward appropriately, than of detailing the evils we have done.

2. All of it - the genocide, the slavery, the ecocide - was done to build global 2021, the practices, the technology, the value system.
You can't build a good system out of ceaseless evil.
We do not live in a good system.

3. I find the idea that we can somehow tweak the outcome of slavery, genocide, and ecocide, and get a fair and equitable society, to be unpersuasive. I appear to be in the minority.

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

1 Jun

I first found out about the Tulsa race slaughter about two, maybe three years ago.
I am a 73 year old white adult with a high school education from my era.
When I was born, that slaughter was 26 years in the past.
Within my parents' lives. They were children in Iowa.

I saw someone today refer to that as "privilege," but it's not.
It is not a privilege, to be misinformed. It is manipulation. It is control. "My people" wouldn't be barbarians.
But they were. But I never found out.

3. 9/11/2001 was 20 years ago. Seems like yesterday. When I was born, the Tulsa race slaughter was only 6 years older than 9/11 is now.
Vanished like a puff of smoke. And only one of many, I'm also finding out just finally.
I mean, I didn't even know to ask.
Disinformation.

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

31 May

https://twitter.com/homemadeguitars/status/1399455725173329920

Want to hear a totally different Vietnam story?
You do know we lost, right?
We dropped more tons of bombs on tiny Vietnam than all the belligerents dropped on each other in Europe in World War II.
And still lost.
Not a bad trick.

https://twitter.com/homemadeguitars/status/1399455725173329920

2. Vietnam - our project there with the war and all - was run by people who were literally referred to in the press as The Best and the Brightest. Somebody might have written a book with that title, I can't remember.

3. As you can probably tell, a lot of it is dim in my memory. I have a hole in my brain. Things store oddly.
Anyway.
Robert S. McNamara, former CEO (I think) of Ford (I think) was SecDef. McNamara's War.
Best and Brightest. Yale, maybe? I dunno. Best. Not like turds like me.

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

25 May

Long time readers may have noticed that I've got of backed off my usual schtick about Amish communities on the on hand, and developee societies evolving forward to animal and sail power.
The reason is,.almost everybody sees what I write and thinks, "White America, 1859."
No. Not.

For Dr. Hans-Martin, and anyone else who benefits:
I speak of low energy transportation and power. Many to most who respond to me object based on things that were bad in US culture before automobiles and airplanes and modernity. It appears that I am advocating for an historic way

3. Women write to me and say, life was terrible for women then.
Yeah, it was. I don't want to live then.
Black people write to me.
Obviously, they see a flaw. Slavery and all that it meant. Then Jim Crow / near slavery as sharecropping farmers.
No, not that either.

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