And concludes that it definitely does work, if you take the attitude that you are the one that has the fucks to give, that you can achieve this goal.

Me I'm a bet hedger - I'll take the magick and the science, and do the whole shebang. You've covered all the classics anyway I think.

There's a good one that I've begun that takes a scientific look at intention setting - Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything by Dr James Doty. It takes a neurological, psychological look at what is basically the core of chaos magic, stripped of all mythology,

Sorry for your loss - and welcome back.

They want them ignorant and plyable I'm guessing.

Notice that they left China and Vietnam fairly well alone *only after* Reform and Opening Up, and the Đoi Moi reforms. You can't have a fully socialist economy or the international bourgeoisie will attack your revolution.

What anarchists fail to see is that the bourgeois will never stop trying to reverse any successful revolution. If you have a revolution in Russia, expect the US, UK and various other countries to intervene militarily - which they did. Why? Because revolution removes that market from capitalism.

I disagree on what tankie-ism is at its core - it's not about dogmatically supporting literally anything the USSR did so much as realising that a violent counter-revolution sometimes needs to be put down with absolute force to prevent the fall of your socialist republic to CIA plotters.

Olga Kobzar if I'm not mistaken?

Definitely mid level predators. Don't let them outside where there's coyotes or wolves or pumas but in the UK they're fine.

Imagine being the therapist at the top of that pyramid... Like, if you had a therapist who specialised in therapists, but they'd them have to see a therapists' therapists' therapist, and so on up, eventually you get to a therapist who bears all the weight of every other therapist and their patients

Good old Goatse, I remember it well. 🤢