This post is going to come across as sanctimonious but I cant help that...sorry to say it Proper Tidy but I think this thread is in bad taste.
My impression is he
is going through some mental health problems and so calling the thread "Mad Paul Mason", saying "blokes fucking cracked", and posting random pictures to try and back that up doesn't sit well with me. (The quote about '
a single mind coordinating the crisis' is taken unfairly out of context too IMO.)
I don't know him so my armchair analysis means shit all, but my impression is compared to how he seemed when he first started reporting around the 2008 financial crisis and onwards he does come across as increasingly erratic, and to me it looks like he is getting seriously burned out from over engaging and doing too much. In many ways going a bit mad is the sane response...its far from an uncommon trajectory....many amongst us have had our mental health deteriorate as a result of confronting the political situation and struggling to change it.
To me this thread doesn't feel like punching up it feels like punching across at our own. I get the political differences people may have but it doesn't have to be done like this.
By way of a little balance I thought Live Working Die Fighting was an excellent book...in fact there's a lot of good things that can be said about his work....he's genuinely committed...but whatever, sermon over.