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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 13:05:28 GMT -5
Adolph Reed, born 1947, is an Ivy League professor of political science and history and a thorn in the side of black Democrats. He is from Chicago. I discovered him a few years ago when I happened to stumble upon a prescient article he wrote iin 1996 about the rise of a certain emerging black Democrat star that left me flabbergasted. Apparently it had the same effect on others as it is quoted in his wiki bio, and in recent months he is very sought after on the progressive youtube circuit. "In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better."What I haven't been able to locate is the article I saw by Reed AFTER that which called Obama a 'neoliberal confection'. I also haven't found any footage of him over four years old so I'm using a very recent one because it seems the most natural. And I can only find one photo of him where he's discernibly younger than in the footage.  |
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 13:09:15 GMT -5
Recent interview. vincent, anyone, everyone.. |
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 13:16:37 GMT -5
Reed seems a slam dunk 6w5. In footage of lectures or when he's being interviewed on something like Skype, he seems more formidable, but actually I think based on this he is another sp/SO stacking and has a big One fix second. ("Big" being actually redundant assuming stack-fix correlations and ranges work). I would have thought 1w2(9w1) but there is something bearish to him all things considered, so it might be 1w9(9w8)--or something else.
For the heart as it is last I might go with 4w5. He seems somehow in a 'holy' space for one so engaged (similar to say Ralph Nader); I also find his speech and writing to be subtly lyrical.
I'm honestly not settled enough on the details of these factors to really offer a tentative typing other than sp/SO 6w5-1wX-?4?
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 13:18:10 GMT -5
Okay I 'll throw caution to the wind:
sp/SO 6w5(7w6)-1w2(9w1)-4w5(5w6)
But there are a bunch of other possibilities.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 13:28:52 GMT -5
Mind you we have Nader as sp/SO triple attached 9 leading with movement into the Hole on 6w5 and THREEw4. I find Reed to be more similar to me. He seems to have some really reserved NON-attachment going on far beyond sp dom and seems also too easily articulate for (5w4) on the 6w5. I think..
There is a strong case for 1w9(9w8).
synflow 146 with 6 leading may gravitate to Academe/criticism. He is a prolific writer of political analysis with an undercurrent of poesis. He's done organizing but is more of an academic than an activist overall. He does contribute to a lot of popular journalistic publications though-- not an 'ivory tower' academic. And as I said I feel there is something 'holy' underlying it. So to the c.t...
he seems to have Ni/Se.He may also have Te/Fi. I guess he could be Gamma. I'm not sure because I think my experience with Gamma has been skewed and I need to look at it more objectively. He cannot be Alpha. tbc'td.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 13:40:46 GMT -5
Rereading that excerpt from the Village Voice in the OP, he feels like a synflow version of me and only synflow by a nose.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 13:45:57 GMT -5
I do think 146 'triple critical' Oracle and Delphi (the city AND the hole... ) > 136 "Get It Right" or 126 Comply and Demand. 146 is Heraklitan. Everything is constantly getting dichotomized then synthesized; burnt and resurrected. This seems to be his base metabolism. Analyze, synthesize, wash rinse spin...
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Post by vincent on Nov 25, 2019 13:53:54 GMT -5
sp/SO 6w5(7w6) 1w9(9w8) 4w5(5w6) sounds right to me. For the cognitive type, i'll need to look more closely to be sure, but my first guess is ENTJ or INTJ He is almost certainly gamma, and certainly not ISFP or ESFP. I'm leaning toward ENTJ for now, because as withdrawn as he is, i'm not convinced he is an introvert in the typological meaning of the word.
Ni dom / Se seeking doesn't feel quite right.
And I think we might be looking at a case of "Si polr as a superpower" (which can manifest as an immunity against narrative bullshit).
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Post by vincent on Nov 25, 2019 13:57:58 GMT -5
This Heraklitan aspect would correlate very well with Se tertiary.
It's not just "power as an agenda". It's also about the fundamental flow of events. (edit: and also event as opposed to stories and narratives)
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 14:01:55 GMT -5
Ni dom / Se seeking doesn't feel quite right.
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No, it doesn't. But what he wrote in 1996 about Obama is oracular for sure and other people know it. It still sends chills down my spine. That's why he's so sought after now on the progressive youtube circuit. "And I think we might be looking at a case of "Si polr as a superpower" (which can manifest as an immunity against narrative bullshit)." Se agenda makes sense. He seems to exude "Toughen up y'all". So TeNi. That was my actual guess just extrapolating but I was shy to say without checking around first. |
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Post by vincent on Nov 25, 2019 14:03:11 GMT -5
If i recall correctly, in one of our first messenger conversations, we talked about the cognitive type of a few philosophers.
I mentioned some ENTJ ones (Aristotle, Hegel) and their ability to "ride the Zeitgeist".
I think there is something like that with this guy too.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 14:06:14 GMT -5
And I ought to add:
he was a founding member in 1996 of the U.S. Labor Party. They had some labor pains in terms of how to organize it and then the damn thing tanked after 2000 because all the pussies became afraid to be a 'spoiler like Nader' with the Green Party.
History could have happened differently. Gore could have won (the Dems could have fought more TOO; it was all very fishy Florida 2000 was).
The point is Reed really was poised to be a Mover and Shaker. Only, history got constipated and farted.
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 14:07:07 GMT -5
And may be getting a colonic now and he is still around. Agree with Te primary vincent. |
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 14:59:22 GMT -5
Starting around 15'25",he'll respond to Nathan's question--well I read this really important study and I'm having difficulty reconstructing the argument now but it's a really important argument... Completely unfazed that he can't remember the details of the argument. Confident that by tool of conveying the direction of it out of the ether we will grasp the power and relevancy of the argument. Ti ignoring works very well vincent . We will GRASP the agenda. |
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Post by Roshan on Nov 25, 2019 15:13:19 GMT -5
At around 20" Nathan reads the excerpt I pasted from wiki (toldja it enthralled people  ) and Reed proceeds to describe his political activities at the time he encountered Obama in Chicago in the nineties. I guess it's not accurate to say he's MORE of an academic than an activist. it does seem more like he rides the waves of the Zeitgeist. Watching the whole thing now he is really far more bumbling with words in conversation than I noticed at first--because he's so imposing and his IDEAS are so crisp and his WRITING is like a scalpel. Definitely his gut moves way into 9. sp/SO 6w5(7w6) with 1w9(2w1) second is Jordan Peterson. A steady stream of verbal artillery fire. |
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) and Reed proceeds to describe his political activities at the time he encountered Obama in Chicago in the nineties. I guess it's not accurate to say he's MORE of an academic than an activist. it does seem more like he rides the waves of the Zeitgeist.