Parker Posey's Mouth

Seems like the future would be filled with all kinds of possibilities for a guy like Jared Kushner. What is there that a man like Jared Kushner could want for? I'll tell you what; it's nothing. A man like Jared Kushner is a man for whom the world's innermost circles are open. A man like Jared Kushner has influence. A man like Jared Kushner has infinite possibilities.

How long, do you think, Jared Kushner will live? It's a real big question. Hard to say. Even a guestimate seems mighty iffy. A man like Jared Kushner lives adjacent to danger at all times. Politics is a dicey game. Intrigues and espionage abound. Not to mention long trails of treachery and corruption. Fates are decided. To a man like Jared Kushner, that's just the way life goes. Because a man like Jared Kushner is exposed to many situations that you or I could only imagine, and is thus presented with many meaningful choices to make. Given unlimited social capital, what kind of life will Jared Kushner buy for himself?

And for that matter, how do you think Jared Kushner might die? Really, sky is the limit on a question like that. Jared Kushner's death, could come from seemingly any cause, plausibly. For a man like Jared Kushner, there's just a lot of possibilities in life, and possible circumstances of death, that most other men do not have. Could Jared Kushner's life end in violence? Scandal?? Might Jared Kushner perhaps be killed in the seizure of a consulate by terrorists? - Could his corpse turn up half melted in a big blue barrel of chemicals, retrieved from a Hungarian body dump? - Could Jared Kushner choke to death on an olive aboard a corporate jet? - Or even be found dead of a cocaine overdose in a high rent call-girl's appartment? - Is it possible that Jared Kushner's long career in corpo-fascist politics lasts into his seniority, and he dies an elder statesman, betrayed by his own protegee, moments before assuming the shadow throne? - Or perhaps it may be that some day, a washed up middle-aged Jared Kushner's death will occur accidentally, via auto-erotic asphyxiation, in a Florida motel. When we're dealing with a man like Jared Kushner, there's just no way to know!

I am right about the things that prove out that I was thinking accurately, that I had enough information to at least guess the truth, and nothing else. I can't get caught in the process of right/wrong. It's not worth fighting to be seen as 'correct' when questions are still up in the air as to what 'correct' will end up looking like. It's a very ephemeral thing, which will never be defined.

So here's a list of answered questions I will fight about;

1. Fascism is always wrong. It is always wrong to side with or support fascist thinkers and their plans.

2. Genocide is always wrong. It is always wrong to side with or support genocidal thinkers and their plans.

3. Capitalism is always wrong. It is always wrong to side with or support Capitalist thinkers and their plans.

4. Children are the future. It is always right to support the children, to hear their thoughts, feelings, and concerns. They may be wrong about things. They are children. They have to be given the chance to learn and grow, and they must be encouraged to think and imagine. We owe it to the children to take their feelings into consideration, because society will be theirs some day, and it's more important that the social world reflect the values, wants, and needs of it's inheritors than it's current stewards from previous generations. If you treat the children with due respect, they will learn to do likewise. We should not be afraid of what they will do given the enfranchisement to do anything at all. We should not attempt to contain, curtail, control, or dissuade them from achieving better things. We should not saddle them with our burdens, and the burdens of outmoded regressive structures and institutions.

5. Change is inevitable, and all efforts made to resist, prevent, or regress against the forces of change (be they physical, social, etc.) are wrong and should not be given real consideration or support. Little 'c' conservatism has existed in some form for all of human history, and as an idea it has never worked favorably even once. We can know this by noting that even big 'c' Conservative thinkers look act and believe differently than they would have even a few decades or centuries ago. Not simply because they just keep losing and moving their goalposts but because they are forced by every loss to change. Change their concerns, change their aims, change their tactics, change their own ways of living and thinking. Sadly, they choose to do so in pointless opposition to further change, never realizing they will simply fail again. Because when things change, that's it; reality is now different. You adapt to it or die completely. This isn't to say all change is good, and change proposed or adopted in bad faith by regressive thinkers is still foolhardy and doomed. For example, look at social media, or other tech industry 'innovations.' This is bad faith change. Attempts to take control of the process of change and attempts to warp changes to suit stagnant conservative models of social hierarchy and resource stratification. This will never work, because it is obvious that it is making the genuine possibility inherent in new things die a mournful death in service of bad ideas, instead of realizing it's transformative potential. New ideas can lead to new benefits, but only if we are allowed to explore the potential unfettered by old and selfish concerns.

6. In the cold, uncaring vacuum of reality, human beings are the only ones who care about human beings. As a result, we are entirely responsible for how we treat one another, and the quality of our inextricably connected lives. It's always in our best interests to trust and cooperate with each other, fairly, in the interests of common good. Common good cannot be defined by any individual's experience or perspective, and so plurality must be accepted as a necessary factor of culture and society. Common good is not an exclusive condition, and any definition of the common good that seeks to establish or requires there to be an 'outsider' faction fails to register as common good, and must be discarded as an idea.

7. Whatever complaints may be raised about the above, the paradox of tolerance is in effect here. For while I will argue for plurality and change, I will not accept the perspective of those preaching for items 1 2 or 3, or against item 4. Put simply, embracing ideas antithetical to cooperation and respect for others invalidates the possibility of being accepted in a pluralist communal society or culture. It's self-selection out of the community, and out of the process. Get better beliefs.

8. Humanity, Society, and Life are not problems that can be 'solved.' There is no singular solution to these problems, and any attempt to reduce our Human social living problems into solvable states will come at the cost of all or most of what Human social living entails. Which is more than any one of us can contain or imagine. There are millions of ways to do anything, as a Human, living in a society. We shouldn't settle for one. And we shouldn't seek to reduce the number of variables inherent to Human Social Life to a number we can count, simply so we can pretend we've found a singular answer. This is bad science, and bad science produces bad results.

9. Leftism is not immune to bad thinking, bad acting, regressive, or reactionary belief and action. The answers to most questions have not been found, and in the push to advocate ideas, to be heard, or simply to condemn that which we see as harmful, leftists fall into many of the same uncritical and thoughtless behaviors and fixations as those we oppose. We haven't figured it out yet, and while the answer is somewhere in our sphere, it's not yet been certified or even likely identified. We cannot ever allow ourselves to believe, as conservatives believe, that we have the absolute answers, or that it is possible to preempt change by getting society 'right' once and for all. As change is inevitable, so must we always be changing, and adapting to the new mode of reality. It will not stand still for us, even if our virtues are somehow perfected, and our vices somehow eliminated. If our goal is not perpetual adaptation and perpetual effort toward a common good, then we will fail regardless of what schemes we implement. Inevitably, change will render our schemes obsolete.

I'm willing to fight anyone about any of these topics, because the evidence is clear, and it's worth getting angry about when a question that has a clear answer is being argued about. It is not worth arguing about questions which have no answer, simply to assert the answer we favor. Advocation is not antagonistic. Argumentation is not helpful. I await your rebuttal, I guess?

RoboCop. Solvin' that normal crime an all what without any violence er whatnot. Dat guy was speedin in a school zone, and you wrote him a ticket like a normal good cahp, and he's learnin the errer of his ways now! Anywho, we got dis here call about da Drug Kings Gang of Murderers goin' on a killin' spree, so I guess it's back ta da shootin' fer you. But wasn';t it nice, just once, to get a call in modern day Deetroit dat did'n require a RoboCahp to solve wid'a gun? Eh? Just fa once?"