Off-the-cuff Review of @PetruPopsecu #ScienceFiction Novel “Almost Adam”
Author Petru Popescu asked me via Twitter about my thoughts regarding his science fiction novel, Almost Adam.
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of one’s actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.
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Malcolm X patiently tries to explain to white bourgeois devils the nature of black identity in the U.S.
B.A.M.F.K.R.
Angelo Herndon. Black communist charged with ‘insurrection’ for leading a march of thousands of unemployed people at the steps of the court house in Atlanta, GA July 1932. He served two years before being released, facing charges again by the U.S. Supreme Court, which were dropped.
Know the origin of the ‘insurrection’ law in GA?
That’s right. Slave rebellions.
