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"No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them."

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Jaime Christley

I mean, if nothing else, congrats on episode 200!

TheRavingCelt

Excellent timing with my lunch break. Gonna open my eyes to the horror over this takeaway spaghetti.

Susan Beal

I temped at Sullivan & Cromwell after passing the bar in ‘99. Most brutal gulag. But a free car home every night at 1am! #perks

Blurbstien

Appreciated the insights on Bolano, had been waiting for you cover some of his work since it provides a literary narrative that diverges from the “reality” that state’s champion as it relates to cartels. Oswaldo Zavala’s Drug Cartels Do Not Exist would be worth a look, lots of Bolano analysis and some sickening examples of US policy at the border i.e. the Clinton admin lengthening the border wall at certain points so that migrants would be forced to cross more rugged terrain and a hostile desert environment.

NYCM&AHole

MSJ - I dunno when I feel shitty about humanity I just turn on some Cattle Decapitation and All Shall Perish. I enjoy juxtaposition but I’m gonna tap the hell out of that vein of emotion with those tunes. But as I’ve said many times, I’m just a dumb metalhead.

Jake Miller

Auspicious timing - just listened to #175 yesterday, first read 2666 a month ago, and I've got 100 pages left in my first reading of GR. Coincidence, or is it Them ... Thanks!

John Waaben

Thank you for giving words to the horror

Oatmeal

Just finished my first read of 2666. You’d made a comment on a previous episode about how Bolaño “entombs” the reader & I couldn’t stop thinking about that during the entirety of The Part About the Crimes. The apocalypse is already happening all around us; and without it our way of life wouldn’t be possible. Thanks again for all your hard work and congratulations on 200 episodes. You’re the man judge.

Zach

This episode resonated. Haven’t been able to get this line from Distant Star out of my head the past few weeks: “What you have to understand is that Carlitos Wieder looked down on the world as if he were standing on top of a volcano; he saw you and me and himself from a great height, and, in his eyes, we were all, to be quite frank, pathetic insects.” Also, I’d never heard of that AUMF vote. The similarities between it and the STEP Act are horrifying (and, I’m sure, intentional).

Jerry Stahl

You had me at “raves next to concentration camps….”

Shiv

German title? This will probably be an uplifting one!!

NYCM&AHole

If memory serves me right, the last time there were 3,000 murders a year in a city was NYC in the beginning of the 80s, which fits in capitalism running on corpses theme

Bob Mycelium

Speech is a spell and some words still have power across time. Does little for the suffering now but we’re all trapped in our hermetic cells. The story about the bomber pilot is grim, beautiful, and sharp. Many thanks.

M Wigby

also worth noting that 2666 absolutely directly associated the violence of Sonora as absolutely contiguous with the holocaust itself, during the last section of the book. the confession of the low-level bureaucrat who was put in charge of executing several hundred Jews (who Archimboldi strangles) will stick with me till I die. The perfectly banal, hermetically sealed psyche of the everyday administrators of the Reich (4th or otherwise) is possible only because the slaughter is not an oddity, but the basic practice of governance. not sure how to live in this world. what is a citizen of the Reich to do? i am lost, angry, and safely watching the liquidation of concentration camp from my phone. Consciousness is ill equipped to even approach this world.

Nat

thank you for what you do msj. this is making me think about this Hito Steyerl video piece I saw a few years ago https://vimeo.com/76011774

Pear Is A Patsy

MJ let it be known that you have the absolute best mid-atlantic news voice impression of all time

Byron’s Glowing Filament

Thanks for another great one on this event. I’ve been listening to Pink Floyd’s The Wall since you did that episode partially on it and a line really stuck out (well, many many lines did, but this one in particular): “Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?” Album is haunting and way too prescient for the times.

Bored at Work

I was in Jordan when September 11th happened and watching Al Jazeera and CNN both report facts and then watch CNN spiral into propaganda was wild. Flying back home through Germany that year little 15-year-old me was obviously randomly selected for a bomb test where some creeper went through my entire suitcase especially rubbing whatever bomb test on my underwear. And somehow this is so much more horrific and like just by numbers exponentially worse.

warren_

I’m nitpicking here but Vyvanse and Modafinil are very different drugs

Kamran Husain

no memory of 9/11 but i did have to move a few times because of that event

Gratch

Your analysis that the fact that the horror is more visible than ever makes it less credible to many has been haunting me since I listened because it's so spot on. You can go on social media right now and watch a video of an entite family getting blown away and the comments will be people debating whether it's real or, worse whether the family did something right before the start of the video to deserve getting wiped out. I think the last few years' discourse about disinformation and deepfakes only gives people more license to decide that none of it is real and turn their eyes away.

Justin Reid

1:13:47 - does this string of numbers in that order mean something to you like it does to me?

Patrick Cabell

Hey it's me the guy who's been trolling you to do some more on Bolaño. A comment above mentions Oswaldo Zavala, he actually has a whole book on Bolaño if you read spanish. His reading of Bolaño is definitely not the dominant one, and I think there's a ton of room for someone like you, given how elaborately you understand GR, to note how much of his work circles around the Gladio events in our history. The Opus Dei stuff in Nocturno de Chile is brilliant, but even the hostility to Octavio Paz in SD is about Bolaño's hatred of the literary mafia that controlled the publishing houses, grant system, etc. If you despise our corrupted academia like I know you do, Bolaño's assault on that institution is truly heroic. Much love for all your courage.