[[1]mim3@mim.org comments on "Tree of Destruction." See also responses
   to Tani on Frankenstein.]
   
   
   
   OK, the TOD diagram, that is pretty Marxist.
   
   The only way it can be distinguished from Marxism is by statements
   Tani makes that we have to try something other than revolutions of the
   Bolshevik sort. Well that implies the Reds didn't attack the root of
   the tree. But is it really true? Will it be faster at the tree tops we
   have been pushed to to see the tree collapse of its own weight? Will
   we be able to reach UP and attract a lightning bolt? Marxism does not
   look BACKWARD to things that cannot be restored. There is no economic
   power on earth that will carry out what Tani is saying.
   
   Tani comes off to me as circular. To me the solution to the root is
   replicators and free energy. The solution is not going back to
   nomadism. You may THINK this tree has it good in terms of being
   difficult to uproot, but it's branches may grow outward in such a
   direction as to CATCH a LIGHTNING BOLT. That is dialectics.
   
   ESCAPISM should be viewed as PART of the TOD. And if we focus on the
   top of the tree, we will see that it is much easier for TODAY's
   oppressors to point to those of 10,000 years ago to avoid getting
   blame. You see, the oppressors of 10,000 years ago are already DEAD.
   
   So then let's address Tani's Eastern tactics. Understanding that grass
   was green 10,000 years ago in no way requires one to see today's grass
   as green. The way you folks talk about this TOD it's an excuse to say
   grass is pink; it becomes another religion invented by intellectuals
   as Marx said.