Sunday, October 11, 2015

See How Dirty Your Hands Are




  • Shkrelicapitalism & Dentistanimaltrophyism, both within past three months, both might as well be twenty years ago today.
  • Ethical Loneliness: We live in a world where every relatively privileged life relies on the use of misery: the clothes we wear and the food we eat come from abusive labor conditions, the super-wealthy hide their money in tax havens to avoid contributing to larger social benefit, powerful nations pay corrupt elites in underdeveloped nations for natural resources at rates that benefit everyone except the people living in those underdeveloped nations, and it is all legal. Most individuals benefiting from that misery have not participated directly in imposing oppressive or violent conditions. And so they may think they cannot be responsible for what happens. My point: many will be left unprotected and without recourse even in a world where everyone lives up to their legitimate legal duties and does nothing more than that. More is needed. But in order to see that you have to tell yourself a different story about where responsibility comes from and who bears it. If you believe in a justice beyond bare legal culpability, then you have to accept responsibility for more than what you’ve done and intended.
  • Same old shit (featuring Blue Nile).
  • In praise of Hillary Clinton's pandering.
  • I tweeted this Friday night regarding Sanders addressing Shkrelicapitalism: After intense focus group Sunday clears pronouncment Monday morning Inevitability will say ditto.
  • Last night I discovered that Clinton and Sanders will debate on Tuesday and I thought to myself, that could be good TV, this morning? Fuck that, it's as stupid and useless as blogging on a Helmetball Sunday of a three day weekend.











THE MAUVE NOTEBOOK

John Ashbery

On a set you need bush rebels,
that numbing little chair while passing.
If we knock 'em out
seven precincts are going to show up.
It looks like you don't need oil.
I think it'll be fine.
Did she think that might be good,
or for the man who listens to it,
nothing to be done or thought,
(section pending)?
Or for the man who listens to it,
an abrupt yawn, history or the other.
Home economics.  Dr. Singalong
can't find his way back.
I don't know about that, but
at her lamps do you still see
the awkward ceremony, too serious?
Leave it that way, imperfect start beyond
where I was going.
Prison outside the perpetual sonata,
the only anxiety,
since you wonder what they don't do,
from your red zero heart page
waiting to touch your face.
Although they know about it and
it literally doesn't exist,
no, stay up and go to sleep,
unless it falls on the right side of the brain
positioned for so many forgeries,
moon nugget...
I don't cut 'em any slack.
Assault on a clean front,
that's a lot to be turning into.
These residents, they start throwing 'em early.
Continue to open your door to mud!                                                          
Take the noon balloon to Rangoon,
gutta percha academy,
to the place of ice cream,
 
because, really, what difference does it make?
When it was time you went home.
Tears and flowers,
see how dirty your hands are.
We had a lovely dime.
Soon it will be seven I ask you.



2 comments:

  1. it has been asserted

    Last night I discovered that Clinton and Sanders will debate on Tuesday and I thought to myself, that could be good TV, this morning? Fuck that, it's as stupid and useless as blogging on a Helmetball Sunday of a three day weekend.

    my own opinion is different - i will be watching that tv show, and hope that many others will do the same

    one possible outcome of this particular candidates' debate is that a significant fraction of the audience will find that, on balance and to their surprise, they prefer bernie

    maybe, maybe not - it's hard to make predictions, especially about the future

    may the creative forces of the universe stand beside us, and guide us, through the night with the light from above, metaphorically speaking - for this to do any good, we would have to be paying attention, of course




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