Carey Rowland
2 min readJun 7, 2020

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Emmanuel, your work is incredibly perceptive and educational. Thank ypu for presenting it here on Medium.

I can see there is much research that can be done in this area. My own study of this (these) topic(s) has generated four novels which I have composed as a strategem for working out an understanding of what now happens in America in beyond.

Lately, my attention has focused on the lectures of Jordan Peterson. His analysis of the worldwide ancient scriptural generates a worldview that convincingly rejects violence and cruelty. His condemnation of both nazism and stalinism is persuasive.

Indeed, the advocacy of violence and cruelty, being the 0 and 180 degree points of a fascism/communism continuum--such advocacy of violence becomes the definitive point in these judgements that proceed from left and right.

A main point of Professor Peterson's teaching is the capacity of any individual human to assent to--even participate in--the use of violent reprsession. The role of a guard in any prison that might be classified as "concentration camp" becomes the definitive question for any individual who might be compelled to work in the oppressive machinery of a nazi, fascist, communist or socialist prison.

Would I/you accept, from the quasi-. . .ist oppressors a role as prison guard and perform the duties thereof, or . . . allow that system to arrest me so that I become a prisoner therein?

That's where push comes to shove, where the rubber hits the road; that's where all the theory and political verbiage dissolves into the primary issue--the use of cruel punisnment and violence to enforce "State" standards of behavior or citizenship.

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( Glass half-Full, Glass Chimera, Smoke, King of Soul)

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Carey Rowland
Carey Rowland

Written by Carey Rowland

Author and Publisher of 4 novels: Glass half-Full, Glass Chimera, Smoke, King of Soul; 1300+ blogs, musician, songwriter, poet, 45-year husband and father.

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