Barrie Zwicker hasn't got back to me. This may be due to his age; he'll turn 90 in a few months. As far as i can tell, he hasn't put out any new work or made any public internet posts for several years.
Tonite i'm pondering the case of Robert Scheer, a 'radical' Lefty journalist and author. I've read a fair amount of his writing, mostly in Playboy magazine years ago, and been a great admirer.
His position on 9/11 is odd. It reminds me of Noam Chomsky's. Zwicker in his book had a whole chapter on Chomsky's puzzling dismissive rejection of the JFK assassination and 9/11 'conspiracy theories' that these events involved high level governmental involvement and cover-up of the truth. Likewise Scheer only goes so far as to say that the government could and should have prevented the attacks from happening, leaving open the question whether this was because of incompetence or deliberate conspiracy.
It's nigh impossible to believe that sheeple as smart as Chomsky and Scheer could fall for the official lies or narratives of these events, which leads me to think that like Chomsky, Scheer must be a Left gatekeeper. That is, someone who accumulates much respect and credibility among Left 'radicals' but for whatever reason refuses to explore or acknowledge the deepest darkest aspects/secrets of the establishment, thus misleading many of their admirers by dissuading them from doing so themselves.
I have an email address for Scheer and thought of writing him about this for a moment. He's just a year younger than Zwicker, but unlike Zwick, is still publishing work. However, it would probably/ almost certainly would be a waste of time, as I doubt if he would admit to either being an actual government agent, or merely being savvy enough to understand the boundaries he can't cross if he wishes to avoid the dirty attacks and smears (smear scheer!) one must expect if one is both prominent and the sort of truly radical critic who obliterates the boundaries of acceptable criticism of said establishment.
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