insurrections

 I don't understand this obsession with condoms but very well.

Why are Hitler and the Japanese gent holding hypodermics (dripping with what we, in that man of the world manner of teen boys, called The Syph), and Mussolini is holding what appears to be a hooker doll?  What is with the hooker doll?

And who is the Japanese gent?  Could be Hirohito, the emperor who, like George Costanza, would have preferred to be a marine biologist, or Tojo who was the main man who wanted the war?  They both had moustaches so it's hard to tell, but I am going with Tojo, because that seems to be the name one hears most often watching WW II movies about the Pacific.  Doing my research I came up with this fun fact:

After recovering from his injuries, Tojo was moved to Sugamo Prison. While there, he received a new set of dentures, made by an American dentist, into which the phrase "Remember Pearl Harbor" had been secretly drilled in Morse code.^[

Writing about the weathermen in the last post, and reading Emma's autobiography, and just yesterday afternoon hearing that the tribunal of justice will be wanting to hear from Hannity. got me to thinking about the last three American insurrections.

Emma Goldman, and many of her fellow anarchists and socialists were champions of the working men who were working those long hours in the smoking factories and dark mines and places of that ilk.  Herself she was from that ilk and it seems most of her compatriots were too.  I am about halfway through and she has been in prison a few times, and spends much of her time in meeting halls giving rousing speeches, and there are magazines and debates with other radical groups because they had all these different theories, but it strikes me that there is not much talk about what to do when they achieve their goals, what sort of government they thought to replacing the one they overthrew.  Well many of them were anarchists, so they didn't believe in government, but there has to be something doesn't there?  Were they dreaming of some libertarian eden, some Galt's Gulch from sea to shining sea, only without so many fatuous rich guys?

She didn't think of much of democracy because she thought the masses were too easily led by silver tongued devils, and she didn't care for mere reform because she thought it would blunt the revolutionary spirit.  And maybe she was right because about one hundred years after the forty hour week are we not in another gilded age much like the one she deplored.

I always think of the revolution of the sixties as the perfect storm, all those baby boomers, and all those illegal drugs that made outlaws of much of that generation, and of course The Unpopular War that we were called to fight in.  We were largely a generational thing, we never really connected to the workingman.  We had the Black movement on our side, but they had their own interests.  Most of us were white middle class, the children of privilege, and really all we wanted was to legalize dope and end The Unpopular War, Hey and don't make me cut my hair Man, and I reckon we would have been happy enough.

But the bombings stand out, what was with that?  Even as a rank and file hippie and generally in favor of those radical guys I wondered why are we doing that.  Did we think that this was going to end the war or legalize dope.

And I wonder why there are no bombings from the Trumpists and their allies like the Proud Boys and their ilk who talk a pretty violent game but generally just want to bump chests with antifa.  Where we had our weather underground they have their Qanon, but those guys just seem to talk to each other, and that's about it.

But it all seemed to come together January 6th huh?  They got to stand up and fight, only instead of fighting antifa and feminists and gays and minorities they were fighting cops who they profess to love with all their hearts.  But maybe they have something that the other insurrections didn't.  Neither Emma's ilk, or the sixties ilk had a clear goal of what to do when they took power, but the Trumpist's do.  It's Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump forever.