Thank you for this fresh perspective and insight. My first reading of this resonated deeply as my own family’s experiences across five generations in America were in many respects mirrored in your reexamination of our collective history over and beyond the 20th century. Our family’s experiences were profoundly influenced by the Marxist overthrow and enslavement of our ancestral homeland; an act of chaos making to impose a new order of oppression and control in the name of western utilitarian Utopianism. South Korea is South (as opposed to North) for essentially the same reason.
My hope is to see you explore the question of what value systems the chaos makers are seeking to undermine and destroy. The reasons for their malevolence goes beyond mere wealth accumulation and naked power; they have had both for quite some time already and need not seed chaos in quite the manner they have been doing for well over a century. Indeed, they might have chosen an entirely different ethical path and maintained their privileged status BY BEING WORTHY OF IT AND ACTUALLY EARNING IT. There is a significant difference between true noblesse oblige and its false equivalent philanthropathy.
I suspect I will find further resonance in Hidden Figures as well although our particular inconvenient demographic hasn’t yet been celebrated in any similar way.
I look forward to your next Stack. May all that is good uphold and sustain you in your endeavors.
Hello! I love this. Thank you. Yes, I will keep your thoughts in mind, as I decide on future content. I do have an idea about what could be the "reasons for their malevolence," and it will be good to delve into this further. It's a substack I've been wanting to write, actually. I will probably include some of your comment in that future Substack, if you don't mind - I like to acknowledge comments that inspire me to write. It's up to you if I quote you by name, or not. Again, thank you!
It turns out that I am from Seattle and my name might cause problems for my relatives still in the PNW. My nom de plume will need to suffice but such regrettable need for prudence is not something new to our family. The act of speaking truth is not uniformly appreciated and may result in exile and persecution of one’s relatives. Both happened to our family in the wake of the aforementioned Marxist revolution.
I shared your thoughts about rezoning on Vashon with a lifelong friend who resides there. He enjoyed your Stack immensely and filled me in on things best left unwritten in public forums.
I return to visit family from time to time but Wolfe’s insight that you can’t go home again and some of the circumstances of his posthumous work bear eerie resemblance to our own time.
Absolutely. Understood - and Polemarchus is your preferred nom de plume? I appreciate your care and caution on behalf of your PNW family members, and I would love to hear from your lifelong friend who enjoyed my zoning Substack. Would be great to hear his thoughts on the matter...! I think we can engage in private messaging here on Substack, so if we figure that out, I can share a good email and phone number. Thoughts?
Thank you for this fresh perspective and insight. My first reading of this resonated deeply as my own family’s experiences across five generations in America were in many respects mirrored in your reexamination of our collective history over and beyond the 20th century. Our family’s experiences were profoundly influenced by the Marxist overthrow and enslavement of our ancestral homeland; an act of chaos making to impose a new order of oppression and control in the name of western utilitarian Utopianism. South Korea is South (as opposed to North) for essentially the same reason.
My hope is to see you explore the question of what value systems the chaos makers are seeking to undermine and destroy. The reasons for their malevolence goes beyond mere wealth accumulation and naked power; they have had both for quite some time already and need not seed chaos in quite the manner they have been doing for well over a century. Indeed, they might have chosen an entirely different ethical path and maintained their privileged status BY BEING WORTHY OF IT AND ACTUALLY EARNING IT. There is a significant difference between true noblesse oblige and its false equivalent philanthropathy.
I suspect I will find further resonance in Hidden Figures as well although our particular inconvenient demographic hasn’t yet been celebrated in any similar way.
I look forward to your next Stack. May all that is good uphold and sustain you in your endeavors.
Hello! I love this. Thank you. Yes, I will keep your thoughts in mind, as I decide on future content. I do have an idea about what could be the "reasons for their malevolence," and it will be good to delve into this further. It's a substack I've been wanting to write, actually. I will probably include some of your comment in that future Substack, if you don't mind - I like to acknowledge comments that inspire me to write. It's up to you if I quote you by name, or not. Again, thank you!
It turns out that I am from Seattle and my name might cause problems for my relatives still in the PNW. My nom de plume will need to suffice but such regrettable need for prudence is not something new to our family. The act of speaking truth is not uniformly appreciated and may result in exile and persecution of one’s relatives. Both happened to our family in the wake of the aforementioned Marxist revolution.
I shared your thoughts about rezoning on Vashon with a lifelong friend who resides there. He enjoyed your Stack immensely and filled me in on things best left unwritten in public forums.
I return to visit family from time to time but Wolfe’s insight that you can’t go home again and some of the circumstances of his posthumous work bear eerie resemblance to our own time.
Absolutely. Understood - and Polemarchus is your preferred nom de plume? I appreciate your care and caution on behalf of your PNW family members, and I would love to hear from your lifelong friend who enjoyed my zoning Substack. Would be great to hear his thoughts on the matter...! I think we can engage in private messaging here on Substack, so if we figure that out, I can share a good email and phone number. Thoughts?