I spotted this line in an Esquire interview with Glenn Greenwald …
If you’re gonna challenge people in power, you have to be ready to be attacked in effective ways. That’s the nature of power. If they couldn’t do that to you, they wouldn’t be powerful. Yeah, but I mean, of course it’s not easy. Nobody likes it.
Yeah, he’s right. I have the scars to prove it. I’m not trying to make out I’m a martyr or anything, but Greenwald’s description (“be ready to be attacked in effective ways”) is bang on, and when it happens, it stings. It’s like that y’all.
– P
‘Be prepared to bleed’ is a line from Joni Mitchell’s song A Case of You.
The nights of the long knives are around the bend (Night of The Long Knives is a track by AC/DC of For Those About to Rock (we salute you)
It’s funny how a line in a sing can ‘stick’ and float to the top of your consciousness … and feel like an insight, or a warning …
everything is connected. Won’t bore you yet read a great contemporary philosophy text this year on the unconscious becoming conscious, the conscious returning to the unconscious honestly, it has been my experience these past couple of years that everything is connected, was before the ‘net, just facilitated further now. Gotta love quantum mechanics and the the thought of those early theoretical physicists, Bohr, Albert et al; Seen a graphic once representing the ‘activity’ of the www (at a theology seminar) ; resembled the human brain, yet looked like a galaxy.
furthermore , politics is a dark art ‘dissidents’ are watched, and occasionally attempts are made to ‘spook’.