tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post2134363831133463197..comments2024-03-28T10:05:08.122-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: If You Would Recover, You Have to Get Over the Shattered Autos in the Backwoods Lot to that Bridge in the Darkness Where the Sentinels Stand Guarding the Border with Their Half-Slung Rifles, Warned of the Likes of YouUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-2199599983809391602011-09-13T11:01:50.603-04:002011-09-13T11:01:50.603-04:00Not necessarily incompetent. More incapable of mai...Not necessarily incompetent. More incapable of maintaining the cohesion necessary for a conspiracy. They are as small and petty as the middle school analogy implies.<br /><br />My own analogy is ants. Collectively they devour the dead mouse, but there's no conspiracy to strip the mouse bare.SeatSixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-2990280808187179452011-09-12T22:18:43.566-04:002011-09-12T22:18:43.566-04:00The Federici's well worth your time, if you ca...The Federici's well worth your time, if you can do it, though I understand nonfiction nondoing.<br /><br />For those who think the powerful are incompetent, I'm not sure if I agree or disagree, but I will say this: maybe they can't provide <i>you</i> with coffee effectively, but have they stopped making money for themselves?Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-81896533755143420112011-09-12T20:53:58.713-04:002011-09-12T20:53:58.713-04:00Got to agree with Landru. My current corporate col...Got to agree with Landru. My current corporate collective can't effectively figure out how to provide coffee service in an eight floor building. Anything resembling conspiracy is a fleeting pattern in the chaos. The momentary synchronization of turn signals at an intersection.SeatSixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-65241585770691854712011-09-12T16:02:54.266-04:002011-09-12T16:02:54.266-04:00See, I try to stay out of it when you go all Tim R...See, I try to stay out of it when you go all Tim Robbins, but that is most explicitly not how you're presenting. I must chide Sasha briefly and mildly, though--the active subject/verb here is not just about pols. <br /><br />That said, her point is valid conceptually. There's no argument about the inexorability of power--I agree. But the way you present your argument very explicitly posits planning and conspiracy (as an act, not as a legal term). Three days in the private sector--or close dealings with it--should really disabuse you of the notion that such a thing is plausible. It's more of a systemic/organic coincidence. <br /><br />That's why I rail against the way you formulate this.Landruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11954074164878242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-66934175238191657852011-09-12T13:15:16.969-04:002011-09-12T13:15:16.969-04:00I prefer to think of it as giving power credit for...I prefer to think of it as giving power credit for its inexorability.<br /><br />Pols are just bus drivers who think they're actually steering.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-22546485411262070932011-09-12T12:53:07.155-04:002011-09-12T12:53:07.155-04:00I can't understand why you continue to give po...I can't understand why you continue to give pols so much credit for planning and efficacy.Sashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06501998212859335778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-44698630843347150012011-09-12T12:16:59.576-04:002011-09-12T12:16:59.576-04:00The fact that YFWP didn't deign once to mentio...The fact that YFWP didn't deign once to mention either Dick Armey (COO) or the Koch bros (Board) in their 'analysis' of the origin of the Tea Party shows just how stupid they (think we) are. It is the marketing arm of the Republican party—selling patriotism, anti-socialism, anti-government/pro-Corporate politics.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-47941654960983852302011-09-12T12:10:06.878-04:002011-09-12T12:10:06.878-04:00Thanks for the linkage!Thanks for the linkage!zencomixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02425613931488064403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-41196404169630764872011-09-12T11:15:07.208-04:002011-09-12T11:15:07.208-04:00Snyder is the real winner of Nineleven®.Snyder is the real winner of Nineleven®.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-5507238546971650532011-09-12T09:49:05.384-04:002011-09-12T09:49:05.384-04:00You're welcome and thanks.
Went to stacks and...You're welcome and thanks.<br /><br />Went to stacks and pulled the Federici. I'm horrible when it comes to reading non-fiction, (though I now recognize I read some of the book for a class eighty decades ago) but it looks fascinating and I'll certainly read the intro (and look at all the cool and horrific pictures) and see where I go from there. It's already reminded me what a misogynist pig Billy Shakes could be: "sulphurous pit/Burning, scalding, stench, consumption."BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-91255667910284124802011-09-12T09:30:36.697-04:002011-09-12T09:30:36.697-04:00(PS what was marketed to you as your innocence was...(PS <i>what was marketed to you as your innocence was never yours to lose</i> is damn good.)Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-14800897885299388342011-09-12T09:27:49.935-04:002011-09-12T09:27:49.935-04:00Happy birthday Arvo Part and thanks for the link. ...Happy birthday Arvo Part and thanks for the link. I wouldn't exactly call your argument teleological (and I don't disagree).Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-6095937569877120862011-09-12T08:34:04.715-04:002011-09-12T08:34:04.715-04:00Mystery gunk downtown remains.
~Mystery gunk downtown remains.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com