L.B. Neill

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 46 through 60 (of 278 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • in reply to: Good News: And No Religion, Too #238639
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Tom,
    Act and react.
    I could consider myself ‘encased in a nutshell’ and consider myself a king of infinite space!
    Yet hark: my very acts have consequences!
    My shell is bigger than I thought!
    We are more than the sum of materialism and mechanical psychology: we are the sum of that and so much more!
    Be safe.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    in reply to: Russian Tensions #238634
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Gulp!

    This Nazi narrative: where did you first hear it?
    What are its origins to you?
    Find the origin (in a Derridean sense) and there you see the origin and genealogy of what you said. And what you said came from.
    MH was a precursor warning to all nations and all peoples: none of us are immune to such conflict and we all suffer.
    Throw away that little red rev book- and take a look at true socialism (via democracy and education).
    Myself: statist news and national interests always seem an origin of aggressor controlled narrowcasts. I avoid its hold but note its audience.
    Seek broad views as best you can… avoid narrowcasts.
    Be safe.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    in reply to: Merry Marxmas #238626
    L.B. Neill
    Participant


    For a comrade who is no longer here. Thank you for your love no matter what!
    Loved you man. A big shout out to your partner and dear friends.
    I will forever know Mouffe and Laclou sounds like an expensive furniture shop!
    Still have a post modern couch for us to share stories!
    Miss you.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    in reply to: Russian Tensions #238623
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Really!
    Are you spreading a little of it too!
    MH Flight, the Russians who shot a civil plane down initially said: spies…. spies… Nothing to see here… Mmm… Mmm!
    Mmmm.

    What are you shooting down: Mmmm!
    Truth eh!

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    in reply to: Palestine-Israel Conflict #238621
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Between Russian Tensions and here: it seems my post is in moderation.
    I will say this: ethnic, national and all kinds of tensions generate conflict.
    Regarding Hope:
    Catch that glimmer friend: it is shared by so many you would not believe!
    I am as you may know an Irish man living on the south of the world, who is a person of faith, who expresses socialist ideations… and so much more subject positions.
    Sides of a sword kill: their sharp ends.
    The flat sides do not: long live the flat sides.
    Not sure why I needed to say that.
    As a kid I learned about Dier Yassin: the ovens. Another atrocity.
    As an adult: I learned we can overcome national tensions… that seem superior to ‘governmental tensions’
    Casting an apex aside (casting class interests aside) we will see one another for our humanity and common goals.
    No matter what.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    in reply to: Russian Tensions #238491
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Can any solution be found in seeking ‘points of equivalence’ in any national struggle?
    The very things that unite us as human beings should look above nationalism and ethno-political tensions.
    The episteme of lived experience: love, child raising, production of meeting all our needs, and so on.
    Nationalisms in all their manifestations seem to have an apex of power and control: a ruling ‘top end class’…
    Alan, do you think we can rise above the tensions and see each other as sharing a commonality, thus ending history: ending divisional nationalism and seeing one another as mutual beings assisting one another, or is the stirring of ethnic-national tensions a bane that prevents us from becoming the ‘democracies yet to come’?
    Not an easy question: just wanted your take on it as I am trying to be optimistic.
    Regards
    LB Neill

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill. Reason: Spelling mistake!
    in reply to: Tribute to Kropotkin #238488
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    ALB. This is a really powerful parable on benign colonialism: points to that notion of charitable acts as ‘stock management’.
    I am still mulling over it, might say munching its cud! Thank you for posting on Tolstoy.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #238458
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Oh. Oh.
    I am not sure what to type.
    Sugar.
    I will miss Matt. I am sorry I did drift away from SP…
    Alan: Nothing in socialism is under. We long for that ‘don’t follow leaders, watch for parking meters’ as Matt referenced to me once.
    Shit… I am really knocked for six.
    Loved him.
    Liam (L.B. Neill).

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #238455
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Well Alan. Seems my visual skill are skewed.. I might see if it is transcripted.
    Oh, sorry to post it here: how is matt cuthbert? I have missed his critique of my posts…
    I had missed being here: seems I had been on an existential walk about and now feel lost in the politics of things… Matt certainly grounded me in social reality.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #238449
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Incredulity!
    What is wrong to make someone think 70,000 plus 1 makes sense!
    I hear you on that!
    The old guard of state capitalism has many guises- totalitarianism is its number.
    Ye shall know it by its use of money and orders.
    Workers killing workers sums it up as others have said.

    I long for people to beat their weapons into plows and notice that if we do not: it is capital interests beating workers as fodder against each other.
    Its number is CAPITAL. Its number is one more false ideal sold to a side in a needless conflict. Its number is one dictator surrounded by a mobilised oligarchy surrounded and held together by a state sanctioned apex.
    Know it by its focus on one at its apex.
    Sorry, a little esoteric in some ways. I am miffed that anyone would shout a old guard hay and hay to the Russian regime based on nostalgia for oppressive state capitalism.
    Have a lovely festive season: with no festering.
    L.B. Neill

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    in reply to: Talk on capitalist stagnation #221213
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Thanks ALB,
    Will do.

    in reply to: Talk on capitalist stagnation #221182
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Hi all,
    Adam,
    Mike in the Asia region is giving a discord talk in October.
    Are you able to help me with the invite to it?
    Sorry I could not attend the August one: it happened on my birthday and my family had planned much needed celebrations…
    Be safe,
    Mr O’Neill 🙂

    in reply to: Coronavirus #221181
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Hi MS,
    Yes it is a complex situation indeed. It seems the antivax protests had taken hold.
    However on a positive note: Australians are now turning out and getting vaccinated and the lockdowns have continued in many states… I myself am feeling the weight of the restrictions, though I typically spend a lot of time in my mind-scape!
    The good news is a lot of ozzies are pro-vaccination (est:95% supportive of vaccine campaigns in general). Yet there are a noisy minority influenced by the Big 12 influencers who wreak havoc on scientific truths on social media… I think Alan had posted on this 12 influencers recently… time to name the network and hold them up to fact checks.
    Be safe brother.

    in reply to: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance #220867
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    “A one child limit on births for each and every child rearing/fertile unit of two persons would result in a 50% reduction in earth’s human population in one generation. 7.7 billion reduced to just under 4 billion in one generation…Instead of UBI and UBS, we should pay people to voluntarily block their fertility after their first child.”

    What a really sad ideology! Birth control as a welfare payment to the working class and the precariat. Birth as a financial privilege (dominant classes able to freely give birth: another class who are in poverty and have no finance surrender their reproductive rights after the first child just to receive a payment).
    Smacks of reproductive control and a commodification of the womb. Wonder who is sterilized: will their thinking fall heavily on women? That is another question!
    We have enough resources to our current and future populations, bar the coagulation of wealth and productive resource controlled in the apex structure.
    I am reminded of Ian Banks and Ken Macleod literary comments on money: wherever their is money there will be poverty.
    Our people are our wealth… every countless one of us is precious.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by L.B. Neill.
    in reply to: Coronavirus #220216
    L.B. Neill
    Participant

    Thanks Matt- yes I appreciate it would generate confusion!
    But good to hear from you again..

Viewing 15 posts - 46 through 60 (of 278 total)