here's the footnote in volume 2. it's a dangerous game to try and dunk on a whole field without doing a comprehensive survey of a subject first
although I'm not always free from that particular sin, my show is built on "surely someone has already written about this" and tracking it down, not shooting from the hip. thank you.
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in 1965, a young Bill Clinton was at Georgetown where he took a class from Carroll Quigley. I've heard people say Quigley was his favorite teacher.
Quigley was controversial; some called him a "conspiracy theorist". he argued that much of the world was dominated by a relatively small set of people.
after taking the class, he went on to study at Oxford, probably worked as a CHAOS snitch for the CIA, and the rest is history
check out this shit - a University of Chicago's model united nations playing out the United Fruit Company's board of directors roleplay scenario from 2018
it's time to talk about Jacobin's article on Jonestown
"Over 900 died at Jonestown in 1978 in a murder-suicide that shook the world. How did Peoples Temple go from emancipatory project to disaster?"
^ there were clear utopian and progressive political elements to Peoples Temple, but as I've said before, it's extremely gormless to buy that Peoples Temple was ever intended to be an emancipatory project
I realize that going on and on about my trip to Japan is privileged and also could be annoying, but if you want to hear about it, indulge me and I'll get real city pop for a bit
the trip was a lifelong dream of my wife's, so I didn't hit up every single sus or interesting historical sites I might have wanted to; we also don't GAF about anime or shrines so it was heavy on food, architecture, some history, and V I B E S
on paper some of our movements seemed sus, like we walked past a bunch of embassies (this is the Russian one) and we creeped around the Chongryon (the unofficial DPRK embassy)