Via Wikipedia, I accessed a 2007 New York Law School Law Review piece by Roger Citron. It’s rather of interest to us, I think, because it shows how autobiographical “Greening” was for him.

And it might interest our host Neo to reflect on that past era of cultural turn, when revolution was in the air, and institutional distress reached its maximum intensity.

Two things stand out, after only reading 10 (out of 30) pages. Reich wanted to study sociology but wound up schooled in legal realism. “Greening” really did let him let his hair fly!

And second, Reich not only clerked with Justice Hugo Black but lived with him!

One imagines an ongoing legal and social seminar occuring because after Black’s wife died, the family wanted him to have company. And hosting his clerks was the way this came about.

Anyway, this was Reich’s most intellectually informative moment.

How does this example bear upon our times? It’s hard to imagine something equally shaping for the young today.

The spirit of hard thinking is so dead today. But perhaps others will reach a different estimate to analogize?

On Steve Bannon’s Pandemic Warroom podcast, Lindell denies ever specifying a month for this.

Cornhead — are you sure you aren’t just guilty of taking the Lying Oligarch Media’s word for what Mike Lindell said? I suspect you did. Don’t be an easy Mark — please?

Lindell knows about Quo Warranties (sp?), and argues that this unprecedented remedy — because used for other elected offices — could allow the SCOTUS to rubber stamp a reversal of President.

I, however, understand that such doctrine is trumped by the written method of the US Constitution. And therefore, if the Supremes go so far as to review this remedy, would implicitly commend the method mkent discusses in his post above.

That is, an arduous Constitutional-Legal process of successive resignation and appointment (and Senate approvals) to High Office.

But this is definitely bound to be further subverted by hyper emotional cry bull Democrats and their Oligarch MediaCommies. They live for these dramas and poisoning our nation in real time, as the Kavanaugh charades proves.

I wouldn’t’ be surprised if it came out that the won by fraud he’d get renominated and millions would vote for him. The explanation\excuse would be that Trump was so dangerous to the US that anything was justified to remove him from office. CNN and MSNBC, NYT, etc would pick up the narrative.

Blazing Saddles is registered in the Library of Congress for it’s significance and merit. Not to say that the left will move heaven (scratch that), work like hellions, to get it removed.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6700144

Zaphod:

Well, when the appropriate self-help groups form, we may meet, have coffee with bad creamer and cheap tiny cookies, then introduce ourselves.

“Hi, I’m huxley and I have a short attention span.”

I don’t understand you Far Right Baddies, but I’m willing to learn.

My main problem, so far, is I don’t get the whole Jews and Israel angle. I find Unz pretty much unreadable on that account.

We Far Right Baddies love Burnham’s critique of Managerialism. He was still a Marxist when he wrote Managerial Revolution. The thing about old style rigorous Marxists is that while they were wrong about human nature and ‘Not Even Wrong’ about the resource allocation == economic planning problem (There’s a giant Incomputability sized hole in that one)… they were often very good at the dialectical analysis of social classes and how social and power relations worked in reality as opposed to theory — naturally enough as they were looking for chinks in their enemies’s armour. It’s a mistake to throw out the baby with the bath water or to mix these hard-headed bad-ass guys up with stuff the Frankfurt School and later folks made up out of whole cloth. Same applies to various other schools of Bad Guy Thought. There’s always something to learn — even if it’s only what not to do.

No excuse for once having thought myself well-read except for a mis-spent youth. Once hyperlinks and instant reward became ubiquitous, I’ve lost a lot of my patience for longer works. Not something I’m proud of at all.

Zaphod:

Probably so. I know Burnham from Orwell’s essay on Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution”:

https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/burnham/english/e_burnh.html

Geez. I’m going to have to read that again! From Orwell I meant to read Burnham in the original, but so many books, so little time.

I miss how well-read people were once upon a time. Even those on the left. I caught the tail-end of that wave.

So, Zaphod, what’s your excuse? 🙂

Reich must have read Burnham. Another old Lefty who marched to his own beat and didn’t always follow the crowd.

Reich got his JD from Yale Law, clerked under Justice Hugo Black, and returned to Yale Law as a professor. “Greening” was a cry from his heart.