These ponderings attempt to let themselves be appropriated by the event. (Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Martin Heidegger, 1936–38/1989)
Monday, February 28, 2022
6:14 PM (2/28/22)
Russian troops advance on Kyiv as Ukraine continues to resist
Alain Resnais (1922~2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Resnais
http://www.newwavefilm.com/new-wave-cinema-guide/best-resnais-films.shtml
我想他的時間,過得太慢,有點像,騎著牛,從台北去墾丁,反過來說,我們現在的時間,過得太快,有點像,打炮,還來不及拔出來,就已經,從台北「去過」墾丁,回來,而且已經,抽了好幾根事後菸,意思是說,我們的時間,是用事後菸,來計算的,你要理解,一炷香十五分鐘,一根菸五分鐘,
聽說,德勒茲對於,電影的時間意象的理解,啟發之一來自於他,我沒有聽說,德勒茲對於事後菸,的時間意象,做過說明,雖然他一輩子抽了不少菸,
Kyiv on heightened alert as Russian forces close in on all sides
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/europe/ukraine-russia-invasion-saturday-intl-hnk/index.html
See also
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-27-22/index.html
White House responds to Russia's decision to put deterrence forces on high alert
中共駐烏使館命令中國留學生假裝日本人說日文
私は日本のポルノ女優です
Watashi wa Nihon no poruno joyūdesu
私は日本のポルノ俳優です
Watashi wa Nihon no poruno haiyūdesu
第四天
5:41 AM (2/28/22)
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Putin orders nuclear deterrent forces on alert
Now, you see, like Xi, these two fucking assholes, are planning for total destruction of mankind.
周日 (2/27/22)
Saturday, February 26, 2022
後結構主義和心理治療
Plateau de Millevaches
內在世界 avec 外在世界
周六 (2/26/22)
Friday, February 25, 2022
周五 (2/25/22)
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Caring for the Treatment-Resistant Patient (David Mintz, APPI, 2022)
https://www.appi.org/Products/Psychopharmacology/Psychodynamic-Psychopharmacology?utm_campaign=appinews&utm_source=email&utm_medium=title
康德留給我們的悲劇
共匪為什麼拔掉李瑩的牙
Combining Antidepressants Found Superior to Monotherapy in Treatment of Depression
Did Lois Shawver mention Gilles Deleuze?
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Jennifer Doudna and Marty Chavez on where CRISPR meets Wall Street
二十一世紀的德勒茲想做什麼
This Deleuzian Century (ed. Rosi Braidotti, Rick Dolphijn, 2015) 沒有寫好,除了引言的前三頁,
讀德勒茲的策略
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
one vs. multiple (being vs. becoming) (deleuze)
Washington Must Prepare for War With Both Russia and China
A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (ed. Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell, James Williams, EUP, 2018)
周二
Monday, February 21, 2022
1:58 PM
virtual (deleuze)
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Warning (2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning_(2021_film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8956324/
God, thank you.
You're welcome.
series vs. event
形下 vs. 形上
The 5 Technologies That Will Change The Future Of The Human Race
體感四度 (5:45 AM)
Saturday, February 19, 2022
11:37 AM
3:32 AM
Friday, February 18, 2022
10:29 PM
後結構主義和心理治療
The World According to China (Elizabeth Economy, 2021-10-25)
守靈夜二三事 4:31 AM (2/18/22)
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Complex Air Defense: Countering the Hypersonic Missile Threat (2022-2-7)
後結構主義沖刷後的自體心理學
10:25 AM
D
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
objet a ... transference ... analyst's desire ... ethics of Psychoanalysis (拉岡桑)
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Omicron’s Surprising Anatomy Explains Why It Is Wildly Contagious
4:57 AM (2/15/22)
Monday, February 14, 2022
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win (Peter Schweizer, 2022-1-25)
即時事後菸
拉岡桑的思路
怎麼讀德勒茲
怎麼讀 Badiou:滅共就是革命就是事件就是存有
- Theory of the Subject, transl. by Bruno Bosteels; (New York: Continuum, 2009)
- Being and Event, transl. by Oliver Feltham; (New York: Continuum, 2005)
- Logics of Worlds: Being and Event, Volume 2, transl. by Alberto Toscano; (New York:身 Continuum, 2009)
2/14/22 (拉岡桑)
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Lesbos (Kan Mitami, 2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgf3xdUgpaU&list=PLVprq8t2bkWmYF84unwcnIxe8EXL8syTP
2/13/22
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis (BOŠTJAN NEDOH, ANDREJA ZEVNIK)
What Can Philosophy Do? A commentary to Alain Badiou’s Seminar on Lacan (1994-1995) (Alessandra Campo)
Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 (The Seminars of Alain Badiou)
Lacan Deleuze Badiou (A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Jon Roffe)
2/12/22
Friday, February 11, 2022
2/11/22
我知道我有點急
拉岡桑和 Kohut
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Roger Scruton (1944-2020)
He wrote in 2019 that "despite the appeal of the Poles, Hungarians, Romanians and many more, it is the shy, cynical Czechs to whom I lost my heart and from whom I have never retrieved it".
徐州市委書記公告「關於中國拐賣婦女的經營理念和市場邏輯的數點說明」
為什麼讀德勒茲
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
怎麼讀拉岡桑
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Lacanian Perspective (Liliana Rusansky Drob, 2008)
2022-2-12 (Later Lacan, presented by 謝銘晃君)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rGsODjrfa3CVZKFOD5TpjhzXKFKk8olT?usp=sharing
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Samurai Marathon (2019)
https://www.myvideo.net.tw/details/0/219557
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Marathon
Working in the Dark: Understanding the Pre-Suicide State of Mind (Donald Campbell, Rob Hale, 2017)
2022-2-8
怎麼評價包子
event vs. RSI
徐子八和流浪狗
Alain Badiou ‘regrets’ backing Khmer Rouge genociders
Monday, February 7, 2022
Become Animal:Get in touch with your senses
2022-2-7
Sunday, February 6, 2022
11:36 PM
Antonin Artaud (1896~1948)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud
Artaud in Rodez[edit]
In 1943, when France was occupied by the Germans and Italians, Robert Desnos arranged to have Artaud transferred to the psychiatric hospital in Rodez, well inside Vichy territory, where he was put under the charge of Dr. Gaston Ferdière.[26] At Rodez Artaud underwent therapy including electroshock treatments and art therapy.[27]:194 The doctor believed that Artaud's habits of crafting magic spells, creating astrology charts, and drawing disturbing images were symptoms of mental illness.[28] Artaud, at his peak began lashing out at others.[citation needed] Artaud denounced the electroshock treatments and consistently pleaded to have them suspended, while also ascribing to them 'the benefit of having returned him to his name and to his self mastery'.[27]:196 Scholar Alexandra Lukes points out that 'the "recovery" of his name' might have been 'a gesture to appease his doctors' conception of what constitutes health.'[27]:196 It was during this time that Artaud began writing and drawing again, after a long dormant period.[29] In 1946, Ferdière released Artaud to his friends, who placed him in the psychiatric clinic at Ivry-sur-Seine.[13]
- https://jacket2.org/commentary/antonin-artaud-asylums-and-after
- Gaston. "I Looked after Antonin Artaud". In Artaud at Rodez. Marowitz, Charles (1977). pp. 103–112. London: Marion Boyars. ISBN 0-7145-2632-0.
- https://artauddesnosthenovel.com/2019/12/30/from-book-3-gaston-ferdiere/
Paule Thévenin (1918~1993)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paule_Th%C3%A9venin
She saved Artaud, a life that was beyond repair, for us.
2022-2-6
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Alejandro González Iñárritu (b 1963)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gonz%C3%A1lez_I%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu#Filmography
Antonin Artaud and the Healing Practices of Language: How Life Matters in Artaud’s Later Writings (Joeri Visser, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
Antonin artaud and gilles deleuze’s philosophy of modern cinema (2014)
Tatsumi Hijikata (土方 巽, 1928-1986)
TO HAVE DONE WITHTHE JUDGEMENT OF GOD (Antonin Artaud, 1947-11-22 to 1947-11-29)
「方舟與中國」分析蠢兒習近平怎麼亡國滅種
立春次日 (2022-2-5)
Friday, February 4, 2022
The Social Conditions of the International Circulation of Ideas (Pierre Bourdieu, 2002)
Le Pli (Deleuze, 1988)
去領域化 (deterritorialization)
2022-2-4 (後結構主義和心理治療)
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Tech war: Beijing will come out of decoupling worse off than the US, say Chinese academics
一百零五條舌頭一起舔屁眼
Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis (ed. Boštjan Nedoh, Andreja Zevnik, EUP, 2018)
Deleuze and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Essays on Delueze's Debate with Psychoanalysis (ed. Leen De Bolle, Leuven University Press, 2010)
The Psychoanalysis of Sense: Deleuze and the Lacanian School (Guillaume Collett, EUP, 2018)
Deleuze and Desire: Analysis of "The Logic of Sense" (Piotrek Swiatkowski, Leuven University Press, 2015)
2022-2-3
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
11:08 PM
Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture? (Ihab Hassan, 1977)
Deleuze on Cinema (Ronald Bogue, Routledge, 2003)
GLOBAL TAIWAN INSTITUTE (全球台灣研究中心)
George Soros on China, Xi Jinping, and the Threat from Within: Delivered at the Hoover Institution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suMviHNNk2U
https://www.georgesoros.com/
以下是在 2022 年 1 月 31 日胡佛研究所(Hoover Institution)专题讨论会开幕式上发表的演讲——冬奥会前夕的中国:世界民主国家的艰难选择
2022年将是世界历史上关键的一年。 再过几天,世界上最强大的威权国家 – 中国,将开始举办冬奥会,并会像 1936 年的德国一样,试图利用这一景象为其严格的控制体系赢得宣传上的胜利。
我们当今的世界正在或即将做出,影响世界前进方向的重要决定。 德国的选举已经开始,法国的选举将于 2022 年 4 月举行。同月,匈牙利的选民很有可能会让独裁统治者失去权力。 连同普京是否决定入侵乌克兰,这些事态的发展将会决定欧洲的命运。
10月份,中国共产党第20次代表大会将决定,是否让习近平第三次连任中共总书记。 然后,美国将在11月举行中期选举。
气候变化仍将是世界面临的首要政策挑战。但当今世界地缘政治的主要特征,是两种截然相反的治理体系之间不断升级的冲突。 因此,让我尽可能简要地定义一下两者之间的差异。
在开放社会中,国家的作用是保护个人的自由。 在封闭社会中,个人的角色是为国家的统治者服务。
作为开放社会基金会的创始人,我当然是站在开放社会的一边。 但现在最重要的问题是,哪个体系会占上风?
每种体制各有优缺点。 开放社会释放人们的创造力和创新能量,封闭社会将权力集中在一党制国家手中。 这些是强项。 各自的弱点则更取决于不同的当地和区域条件。 例如,欧盟与其成员国之间的关系仍在逐渐演变。 欧盟应该保护承认台湾的立陶宛免受中国的非正式封锁,但欧盟会这样做吗?在濒临军事侵略的世界中,不能将开放社会的胜利视为必然,这对乌克兰和台湾都是如此。
拜登总统总体上采取了正确的政策。 他告诉普京,如果攻击乌克兰,俄罗斯将付出沉重的代价,但美国不会为了保卫乌克兰而开战。 如果普京发动攻击,他最重的惩罚将是更全面的跨大西洋合作。 拜登不会单方面做出任何让步,但有兴趣找到和平解决方案。 选择权在普京。
与此同时,拜登向习近平表明,如果他对台湾动武,中国不仅要对抗美国,还要对抗由澳大利亚、英国和美国组成的更大的澳英美联盟;还有美国、日本、澳大利亚和印度的四国联盟,以及其他一些尚未完全承诺采取联合行动的潜在盟友,例如韩国和菲律宾。 日本是最坚定承诺保卫台湾的国家。
另一方面,习近平也已表示,他决心在必要时以武力维护中国对台湾的主权。 他在军备上投入了大量资源。 最近,他展示了一种高超音速可控导弹,令世界震惊。
美国在这点上没有可比性,也不打算竞争。 我认为这是正确的政策,因为习近平的高超音速成就并没有改变既定的相互毁灭的平衡,因而可阻止敌对方相互攻击。 这一导弹只是宣传上的胜利。 尽管如此,美国与其敌手之间的战争似乎变得更加可能,这不是一个令人愉快的话题。
最近,我在问自己一个问题,现在这种情况是怎样发生的? 当我在 1980 年代开始我称之为政治慈善事业时,美国的优势毫无疑问。 当前已不再是这种情况。 为什么?
部分答案可以归于技术的进步,其中大部分是基于人工智能,它在 1980 年代还处于起步阶段。
人工智能的发展与社交媒体和技术平台的共同兴起, 产生了非常高利润的公司,他们变得如此强大,没有人可以与他们竞争,但他们可以相互竞争。 这些公司已经开始主导全球经济。 他们是跨国公司,其影响力延伸触及到世界的每一个角落。 我们都知道的有脸书、谷歌、苹果和亚马逊。 中国也有类似的企业集团,但他们的名字在西方较鲜为人知。
这一发展产生了深远的政治影响。 它加剧了中美之间的冲突,并赋予了它一个全新的维度。
中国已将其技术平台转变为国家主宰的霸主; 美国对此尚有所保留,因为担心他们对个人自由的影响。 这两种不同的态度,为美国和中国所代表的两种治理体系之间的冲突提供了新的视角。
理论上,人工智能在道德和伦理上是中立的; 它可以用于好或坏。 但在实践中,它的效果是不对称的。
人工智能特别擅长制造有助于为专制政权服务、并危及开放社会的控制工具。 有趣的是,冠状病毒通过使个人数据用于公共控制目的合法化,加强了专制政权所享有的优势。
有了这些优势,人们可能会认为,在收集个人数据以监视其公民方面,比历史上任何其他统治者都更为激进的习近平一定会成功。 他自己当然这么认为,而且很多人也都相信如此。 我想解释为什么不是这样。 这需要简略回顾一下中国共产党的历史。
中共的第一任主宰者毛泽东发动的大跃进造成了数千万人死亡。 其后的文化大革命,折磨和杀害文化和经济精英,摧毁了中国的传统文化。
在这场动荡中出现了新的领导人邓小平,他认识到中国严重落后于资本主义世界。 他的座右铭是“韬光养晦”。 他邀请外国人来中国投资,创造了一段奇迹般的增长时期,以至在习近平 2013 年上台后仍在继续。
此后,习近平竭尽全力摧毁邓小平的功绩。 他将在邓小平手下创建的民营企业置于中共的控制之下,并削弱了使其具有活力的机制。习近平没有让民营企业开花结果,而是提出了自己的“中国梦”,用两个词来概括就是:全面掌控。 这带来了灾难性的后果。
与邓相比,习近平是共产主义的忠实信徒,以毛泽东和列宁为其偶像。 在庆祝中共建党100周年时,他的穿着像毛,而其他观众穿的是西装。
根据邓小平制定的接班人规则,习近平的任期应在2022年届满。但习效仿列宁,已经牢牢控制了军队和所有其他镇压和监管机构。 他精心设计了一个程序,将他提升到毛泽东和邓小平的地位,使其成为终身统治者。 为了做到这一点,习近平不得不重新解释中共的历史,在逻辑上表明他应该至少再连续一个任期。
习近平树敌众多。 虽然没有人可以公开反对他,因为他掌握了所有的权力,但中共内部正在酝酿的斗争如此激烈,以至于在各种党刊上都有体现。 习近平受到了那些拥护邓小平的观念,希望看到民营企业发挥更大作用的人们的攻击。
习近平本人认为,他正在引入一种本质上优于自由民主的治理体系。 但是他以恐惧来统治,没有人敢说他不想听到的东西。 其结果,他的想法很难改变,尽管其与现实之间的差距越来越大。
中国正面临以房地产市场为中心的经济危机,自2013年习近平上台以来,房地产市场一直是经济增长的主要引擎。
房地产繁荣所基于的模式是不可持续的。 购买公寓的人甚至在建造之前就必须开始支付费用。 因此,该系统是建立在信贷之上的。 地方政府的大部分收入,来自以不断上涨的价格出售土地。
最终,价格不得不上涨到超出普通人能够承受的水平。 这发生在 2021 年年中。那时,房地产的繁荣已经发展到不健康的程度。 它占经济的近 30%,并且正在吞噬越来越多的信贷。
房地产热潮在逐渐加速之后嘎然而止。 2021 年 6 月的住宅地价比前一年高出 30% 以上。 当局试图放慢步伐,命令银行不得增加对住宅房地产的贷款。
该指令的效果与预期相反。 这使得规模最大、杠杆率最高的开发商恒大难以履行其债务义务。 没有得到报酬的分包商停止工作,买了公寓的人开始担心他们可能永远不会得到他们一直在支付的房子。
当主要销售季节在 9 月开始时,卖家比买家多得多。 有一段时间,几乎没有以报价成交的。现在,土地和公寓的价格都开始下跌。 这会导致许多将大部分积蓄投资于房地产的人反对习近平。
恒大现在处于破产接收状态,其他开发商也面临着类似的命运。 恒大的债权人开始争斗,以努力提高他们在接受破产分配方面的地位。 现由法院接管,他们的第一步是保护雇用约 7千万农民工的分包商。
当局将如何处理危机还有待观察。 他们可能推迟处理太久了,人们的信心现已动摇。 习近平有很多工具可以重建信心,问题是他是否会正确使用它们。 在我看来,2022年第二季度将显示他是否成功。 目前的情况对习近平来说并不乐观。
与房地产密切相关,中国还面临着严重的人口问题。 出生率远低于公布的数据。 专家测算,实际人口比官方公布的14亿约少1.3亿。 这并不广为人知,但它会加剧房地产危机,导致劳动力短缺、财政紧张和经济放缓。
习近平在疫苗方面也遇到了严重问题。 中国疫苗是为应对武汉变种而设计的,但世界现在正与其他变种做斗争,先是 德尔塔,现在是 奥米克戎。 在等待第三届任期时,习近平不可能承认这一点。 这是一个有罪的对中国人隐瞒的秘密。
习近平现在能做的就是实施“清零政策”,即在最轻微的爆发迹象时进行严格的封锁。但这对经济活动产生了负面影响,也给无论身在何处都会被即刻隔离的人们造成了严重的困难,他们的抱怨无法平息。
奥米克戎可能威胁到习近平的毁灭。 它比以前的任何变种都更具传染性,尽管它对所有已经正确接种疫苗的人的危害要小得多。但中国人只接种了武汉变种疫苗,习近平的这一有罪的秘密必将在冬奥会期间或之后不久被披露。
奥米克戎主要通过港口城市天津进入中国,从天津乘坐高铁到北京只需30分钟。 到目前为止,这一变种已经蔓延到中国越来越多的城市,不再可控。
由于冬奥会是习近平的威望项目,政府将竭尽全力使其取得成功。 参赛者与当地居民完全隔绝,但在赛事结束后继续这样做是没有意义的。 全市范围的封锁不太可能对抗像奥米克戎这样具传染性的变体。 这在香港很明显,奥米克戎的病发看似越来越严重。 然而,由于将这座城市与世界其他地方甚至与中国隔绝,清零的成本每天都在上涨。 香港凸显了 奥米克戎为习近平带来的更为广泛的挑战。
他试图强加全面控制,但失败了。 鉴于中共内部的强烈反对,习近平精心策划的将自己提升到毛泽东和邓小平的地位的情况可能永远不会实现。
希望习近平可能会被一个在国内不那么专制、而在国外较为和平的人所取代。 这将消除开放社会今天面临的最大威胁。人们应该尽其所能鼓励中国朝这一理想的方向前进。
谢谢。
2022-2-2
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
China’s Local Governments Are at Risk of a Puerto Rico Moment
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Timothy Snyder, 2017)
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth-century
1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
2. Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. So choose an institution you care about and take its side.
3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections.
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world. The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.
5. Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.
6. Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching around with torches and pictures of a Leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.
7. Be reflective if you must be armed. If you carry a weapon in public service, God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.
8. Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.
9. Be kind to our language. Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.
10. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
11. Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate to others.
12. Make eye contact and small talk. This is not just polite. It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society. It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.
13. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.
14. Establish a private life. Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the Internet, or simply using it less. Have personal exchanges in person. For the same reason, resolve any legal trouble.
15. Contribute to good causes. Be active in organizations, political or not, that express your own view of life. Pick a charity or two and set up autopay.
16. Learn from peers in other countries. Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends abroad. The present difficulties in the United States are an element of a larger trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure you and your family have passports.
17. Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. Do not fall for it.
19. Be a patriot. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come.
20. Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.