Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

Q: Curt: –“Speaking as a friend. Your usage of advanced technical vocabulary restricts what you write to people like me used to reading advanced philosophical books. You will never reach a wide audience that way.”–@ArionWise11

Of course. However, a couple of questions arise:
1) I have to produce work that can survive competition in legal forum over at least two centuries, and against the enemy who is equally sophisticated as I am despite the unsophistication of both populations we serve.
2) Who has power and who will always have power? Whether it be power to advance popular and national interests or collective international interests?
3) What audience do I speak to then? In my understanding I speak to those who will at sometime soon have power.
4) Are those you suggest I might reach capable of understanding what I’m communicating without adapting it to their (lesser) frames of reference (theology, fascism), or will they adapt to the frame of reference (greater) that I’m providing?
5) I’m quite happy if others communicate to their audiences on their terms what I suggest. And it happens consistently if slowly and without attestation.

I am quite aware of the minority of young men who are producing content that informs their bases. The question is whether those bases (y’all) have or will have any power – the answer appears to be no. Instead, those bases can only reduce impediment to those with power, amplify the power of those with power, and if necessary apply force in mass to enforce those with possibility of, possession of, and skills in weilding power.

This is the primary problem with the internet generations – they understand that they can have a voice, that they can counter the voices of propaganda, and that they can shift democratic opinion ‘somewhat’, and they can make a bit of money doing it. Weakening the power of the past generation of power structures.

But that is not power. It is only influence. Power requires the capacity to organize incentives to apply some means of coercion whether moral or immoral.

And the means by which power is engineered is the law.

Cheers
CD

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