Comments by "cjay2" (@cjay2) on "The Truth About Kanye" video.

  1. "It could be said that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness. A giant machine designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures. To do so requires creating a vast apparatus of armies, prisons, police, and propaganda engines of every conceivable variety. Most of these do not attack alternatives directly, but instead create a pervasive climate of fear, jingoistic conformity, and simple despair that renders any thought of changing the world an idle fantasy. Maintaining this apparatus seems even more important, to the exponents of the 'free market', even than maintaining any sort of viable market economy." Hope in Common-Essay-David Graeber https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common.pdf
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  2. I don't know. It's a quote from a book on economics, written sometime in the last part of the 20th century (1900s). But it introduces the concept of purposely manufactured hopelessness, and it expresses it well. Hope in Common-Essay-David Graeber https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common.pdf
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  3. Martine Shamzin It's a quote from a book on economics written in 2008. It introduces the concept of purposely-manufactured hopelessness as a part of the effort to destroy the Western civilization. If you have a complaint as to the grammar or lexicon of the quote, direct it towards the author, if you can find him. Notice that I've put quotation marks around it. Hope in Common-Essay-David Graeber https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common.pdf
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  4. John Snow knows me Hope in Common-Essay-David Graeber https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common.pdf
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