Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "vlogbrothers" channel.

  1. No---I disagree with some of the comments especially the ones that praise John for his Oratory skills---they should qualify him to run for Congress. Skilled verbiage does not make the man. Obama had great oratory skills and was not a man of substance. Trump has no oratory skills and is hardly a man of substance. In the presidential lineage substance disappears within the form of the person. Form is more important than content in the capitalist world order. John is actually better than Congress. Congress would hold his development back, he would not never rise above the social creature he is in Congress. The only thing that would transform John is to spend 2 years living in poverty or in prison. Or in total isolation in the wilderness with little means for survival but for his own body and what he can fashion from nature the tools to assist him in his survival. There he can witness first hand environmental degradation by industry. The reason I say this has to do with perspective. What is missing in John's critique of capitalism is the point of view the oppressed subject. Earth is an oppressed subject under capitalist industry as is humanity. This lack of perspective would make him a very poor legislator in Congress, frustrated, potentially we could lose John to a conversion from legislator into a radicalized religious freak reacting to the contradictions of capitalism and not understanding the inner logic of those contradictions. I suspect he would have few allies in Congress and be railroaded by Congress itself. The foregoing institution has no will or insight into itself as an agency for transformation.
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