Lew and Burke, random thoughts

[ish mailian]

What are Radical Thoughts? The working conditions and the wages, the
growth of the population of workers and the methods used by
governments and business to control the workers, these, it seems to
me, are more explosive than radical thought. The idea, if I follow the
analogy you've used, that the mind of the worker is inert until
agitated by radical thought ignores the body, divides the laboring
body from the laboring mind. Put them back together and no radical
thought is needed for workers to organize and resist their oppressors.
As governments and business expanded, and monopolized,  at an
explosive rate, so too did labor,  and the need, on labor's part,  to
respond to activities of governments and businesses, activities that
wanted to keep labor costs low and labor power inert. Doesn't take a
lot of radical thinking to figure out that the monopolized power,
allied with governments, with armies, was out to crush any attempt to
empower workers. Now, maybe I've misunderstood and simply stated the
obvious here, and maybe the point is that by "radical thought" you are
suggesting some kind of anarchist thought(s), or the use of airplanes
to take out world trade. ?

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:25 AM Raphael Saltwood
<PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
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> References to Lombroso, seems like that could use some attention.
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> Kieselguhr the relatively inert ingredient, into which the nitro seeps. Could probably relate that to the mind of workers (and eventually Lew) exposed to it - is that a similar process to those exposed to radical thought?
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> He’s not the Nitroglycerin Kid which would be 6 syllables instead of 4, and in addition to lacking alliteration would also take longer to yell ( like “F*ck not with the Kid, lest instead of f*cker thou become f*ckee!” in GR, which when you’re driving past somebody in a Jeep they might miss the tail end of )(asterisks because I think it’s funnier that way)(as Isaac Asimov claimed Nathan Hale said, I regret that I have but one * for my country!)
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> Then the editor opening a jug, after Lew demonstrates concern for the Kid’s right to privacy. Turns out this makes Ponghill find something he likes about the cut of Lew’s jib.
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