Good post. The only real “power” anyone can have over you involves your loved ones, and your own threshold for pain.LVH2 wrote:Hi guys.
So, as usual I think you're kind of lumping the liberal left into one big ball, defined by it's worst elements. Of which there are plenty.
Of course, just as many Republican elites would happily allow the waltons to devour your first born in a ritual for immortality, liberal powerbrokers are fine with all kinds of misdeeds among their own so long as they agree that racism is bad and it would be neat to have a woman president.
The left I am more in touch with hates people like Weinstein as much as you guys. They aren't shy about bill being a pig etc. They have been roasting both Weinstein and the ny da at every opportunity. They understand perfectly well that limo libs are abhorrent and drive the country right.
Anyway. What interested me about this case is how Harvey often had little to no real power over these women. The philosophers I read would say even someone with the power to kill you has no real power. That's a little hard to internalize. But in this case we are talking about people who would have plenty to eat, live in nice houses and marry desirable people regardless of what Harvey did. Yet he was able to behave this way for decades.
Not that I blame them much. But its sort of interesting the degree to which someone can build and abuse power on matters that are mostly mental or of little consequence.
Glad to see you back.