Thank you for the clarification. Apologies for a misreading. And yes, good sir, 100x yes.

Dune. After the God'Emperor turns it wet and green?

Dark pop mad.

Cool and absolutely 💯 most of the time. But by the time WWII was on, there was no way to beat fascism with civility. Ghandi & Dr. King only succeeded because they played power against its best normative values. When fascism is ascendant that maneuver ain't available. Just a thought.

When, asks a concerned Canadian friend, are all y'all going to start taking this seriously? With respect, one knows that you and many others sincerely think you're 'taking it seriously' but one fears it's too few, too polite, too timid.

Your teacher was an ignorant fool. Orwell obviously supported a democratic form of socialism. And opposed totalitarianism on the left (Stalinism) and the right (fascism).

Am I in a death cult? 😉 lol

Yes. Because there is no singular 'correct interpretation' of the 'universe' out there to be stumbled upon one fine day. There are adequate descriptions of the universe that experiments & observation corroborate (e.g. General & Special Relativity) but much remains provisional.

"What are the rights of
revolutionary or non-revolutionary writers and artists? Within the
Revolution, everything against the Revolution, no rights at all." - Fidel Castro, 1961

Permanence is virtue idealism: We can make this city resist the ravages of Fortuna (transition/change/entropy). The forms were the shadows. Yet such flickering figures and the concepts that are spun from their vibrations may be perceived as solid within an arbitrary span plucked from deep time.

At first glance I read it as "the silly ... North Thompson" and suddenly I was transposed to a night decades ago in a Kamloops bar ... 😉