Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

Those of you who receive my newsletter, Center and Margins , will likely at the beginning of October receive an essay (on the 'Center' side) that overlaps with the material below.  But the overlap is not repetition, and may indeed be a sort of parallax.  ---------------------------- On the Epstein matter in general, Trump is simply saying what he deems he has to say. Politically, this is a toughy for him. After all, perhaps even more than immigration/border issues, revulsion about pedophilia and elite conspiracy are what has gotten him where he is. During his first campaign, in 2016, the emails of John Podesta, a Clinton family advisor, were leaked to the public (through Russian efforts) and one circle of theorists decided they were all written in a secret code that when decoded detailed Podesta’s involvement with a child-abuse ring. There is no evidence of this, the ‘code’ was something the theorists made up. This soon led to a bizarre story about the basement of a Washingto...

  I think it is great when the Trumpeting wackos have a falling out. With any luck, the whole terrible 'movement' is going the way of the doodoo.  Alex Jones, the infamous detector and denouncer of crisis actors, is at odds with QAnon.  It is one of those "I hope ya both lose" moments, boxing fans.  Jones' deal is: there are no real school shootings in America. They are all fake. How can we know? Because when Jones reviews the footage after such events, he always finds that some of the people in one of them look like some of the people in another. So it is all a matter of "crisis actors" trucked from one place to another in the hire of a conspiracy to create a grassroots demand for gun control. QAnon looks at a conspiracy theory like that and says, "you're a piker, boy. Let me show you how it's done." QAnon seems to have begun as "Pizzagate," a rather modest theory (itself endorsed by Alex Jones IIRC) that a specific pizza pla...