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So let’s look at how to think about comprehensive problems by resolving a series of patterns through the context of the fundamental wage dispute.  There’s an interesting whistleblower* case where one guy in Utah has contacted the IRS and has a case.  He does, although he has the odds stacked against him because it’s one guy against massive corporations trying to expose corporate fraud.  I want to talk about the fact that wage disputation is a fundamental armament because it exposes the continuity between Oedipus and freedom and the actuality of a duality: that you have to build power to overcome the 20% lack of freedom we have in our daily lives to decide our own fate, moreover that power resides in private agreement that can be quickly changed but must be held to the path of attaining freedom.  But I wonder at the person who can say that everything belongs to some higher purpose, a synthesis of meaning across disciplines, willing to enforce a system of integral balance, and is not integrally capable of even coinciding with the idea that nothing is the best approach. He cannot even think this. It’s quite remarkable.  How can he compare two things with everything?  Transparently it is according to a rules based international order and a domestic civil society.  Furthermore it is buttressed by enormous wellsprings of faith in the goodness of humanity, which he cannot see.  It is things like you cannot cheat and you cannot steal and furthermore this is good.  Plainly all good things could be said about him, and are, and periodically with great excitement and verve.  He is willing to stand up.  Sometimes that is all that is said of a man.  Shall we make it not so?  Low light, a desk full of instruments. Let’s call it the subtle light of the screen shall we not?  When he knows, we’ll know.  It’s not like I am working on the media side of personality.  I think it coincides but it doesn’t overlap.  Sophistication might be in the eye of the beholder if all good things were not discernible.  


* https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/0deTHhcyOI

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