tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post8669879350478598410..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Your Chordal List of HatesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-4869424887054146402015-06-26T22:41:08.830-04:002015-06-26T22:41:08.830-04:00Will the POTUS be referred to as "Your Inevit...Will the POTUS be referred to as "Your Inevitability"? Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-32275213361800991112015-06-26T10:38:23.366-04:002015-06-26T10:38:23.366-04:00I'm going to kindly disagree w you re: Marylan...I'm going to kindly disagree w you re: Maryland: between Baltimore City, Moco, PG, Howard, and now a still minority but substantially growing in Democrats Frederick and Baltimore counties, it takes remarkable incompetence on the part of Maryland Democratic Party to lose the governorship.<br /><br />Fuck Martin O'Malley, who is already proving there is no act of toadying he won't do to be either Inevitability's running-mate or in Inevitability's cabinetBDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-63563038861467596332015-06-26T10:11:07.654-04:002015-06-26T10:11:07.654-04:001) i enjoyed new word "flaggasm"
2) in ...1) i enjoyed new word "flaggasm"<br /><br />2) in the time i've been here maryland has not elected the lt. gov. to the top spot - not the woman related to the murdered president, not the man whose mother was swiss - so i don't think our man martin is particularly ineffective in the political sphere - both these candidates had a major disadvantage in so tradition-minded a state<br /><br />2a) i don't like martin attacking bernie, but as i haven't given martin any money i guess i can't complain<br /> <br />3) perhaps, through a combination of circumstances, it could be our CURRENT lt. gov. who makes history by taking office in annapolis - who knows if it's good or bad? <br /><br />4) you link to <b>dark ecologies</b>, where there is a review of james c. scott's <i>Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed</i><br /><br />scott's notions for any future initiative toward a post-capitalist society:<br /><br /><b>Take small steps.</b> In an experimental approach to social change, presume that we cannot know the consequences of our interventions in advance. Given this postulate of ignorance, prefer wherever possible to take a small step, stand back, observe, and then plan the next small move. As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: “You can drop a mouse down a thousand yard mineshaft; and on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes.” (p. 345)<br /><br /><b>Favor reversibility. </b>Prefer interventions that can easily be undone if they turn out to be mistakes. Irreversible interventions have irreversible consequences. Interventions into ecosystems require particular care in this respect, given our great ignorance about how they interact. Aldo Leopold captured the spirit of caution required: “The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts.”(p. 345)<br /><br /><b>Plan on surprises.</b> Choose plans that allow the largest accommodation to the unforeseen. In agricultural schemes this may mean choosing and preparing land so that it can grow any of several crops. In planning housing, it would mean “designing in” flexibility for accommodating changes in family structures or living styles. In a factory it may mean selecting a location, layout, or piece of machinery that allows for new processes, materials, or product lines down the road. (p. 345)<br /><br /><b>Plan on human inventiveness.</b> Always plan under the assumption that those who become involved in the project later will have or will develop the experience and insight to improve on the design.(p. 345)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b></b>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com