First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
So we are back to the "peace process" once again. I think I may have written this post before but hey!... I'm just joining in the circular, groundhog day-like Spectacle, around and around we go! What the hell, why invent new "issues" when you can just endlessly and ineffectually re-hash old ones? Let's see..."settlement freeze" and "refugee status" and "East Jerusalem" and "final status, 67 borders", blah blah...
Even King Abdullah 2 of Jordan got into the act ( I much prefer looking at the Queens Noor and Rania) telling John Stewart that all the issues are "basically" settled. He agreed with me that this is the essential conflict around which all others (war on terror, Irans nukes, Afghanistan, etc) orbit to one degree or the other. Too bad Hillary and Holbrook aren't prepared to do what is necessary, too bad the "international community" isn't willing to put it's money where it's mouth is, too bad facts on the ground preclude a viable Palestinian economy, hence state. Too bad that now both Israel and Palestine are pathologically dysfunctional and will avoid reason like scorpions avoid flame.
Which takes us back to the question of impossible that I raised in the last post. Is peace in the region possible? What of all the things once deemed impossible that we now take as everyday occurrences, flight, bio-engineering, happy marriages? Today's ruling ideology endeavours to make us accept the impossibility of radical change ,of abolishing capitalism, of a domocracy not reduced to a corrupt parliamentary game.
Acting changes the possible by changing the very coordinates of what is possible, thus retroactively creating it's own conditions of possibility. Agape.
I have located the source of a great many of our biggest problems: fucking Ben Franklin! A selection of his quotes show what a demented freak he was: "Time is money" "credit is money" "He that idly loses five shillings' worth of time loses five shillings,..and not only loses that sum, but all the advantages that might be made by turning it in dealing, which by the time a young man becomes old, will amount to a considerable amount of money."
I wouldn't be surprised if he invented the time-clock and punch cards.
"It would be interesting to verify the existence of reality with surveys, as has just been done for the existence of God.:'Do you believe in reality?' The results would be posted everywhere, providing a constant display of the rate of global reality as measured by public opinion."
Jean Baudrillard
posted by troutsky @ 9:46 PM
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There is a more contemporary culprit than Franklin. The great St. Ronnie Raygun. It may be possible to defend Franklin as merely advocating thrift, though it's a stretch.
But Raygun preached something far different, you couldn't really be happy unless you were rich. Now most people weren't rich and that was the fault of the socialists and welfare queens and the usual suspects (Beak will be here with a complete list). So get angry at those folks because you don't have twenty times as much stuff and aren't twenty times as happy.
So, last man standing Libertarianism was unleashed. The Full Ayn Rand for everyone. If you lose in the zero sum game it's always your own fault.
I'd say Clinton was even worse, actually. He tried to put a happy face on everything while he let Robert Rubin and the rest of the gang really get the income transfer in full gear. Franklin? No, if you want a truly vile, disgusting individual it's Clinton.
So here we are. The discrepancy getting worse, poverty increasing rapidly and parts of the nation looking like Europe after the war. The solution our right wing brethren are offering is really stunning and the populace still has that alienation that is the one certain product of Kapital.
Duncy
I see once again as a commie you fail
basic math. Can you explain how a simple average works?
So if a crazed narcoterrosist antisemitic criminal thug persecutes his wealthiest citizens into leaving than the remainder are more equal. Of course a rat colony in a sewer is equal but not optimal.
Of course Capo Ren will rationalize
his sainted Commie thug who is the planets greatest antisemite outside
of the middle east.
Of course commmunist obsessions with Jews and the creation of more Judenfrei real estate are constants. A Jew ( communists are not Jews) sees commies in the same
manner as Blacks see the KKK
Beak, the topic is America, not Venezuela. Try again.
Israel and Palestine, are side issues. Despite all the rhetoric, nobody cares about small countries. To the imperialist powers, they are pocket change.
The best hope is revolution in Iran and Egypt.
Ducky: The monetarist Reaganites, and the Keynesian liberals, are both correct in their prescriptions and both wrong. The problem is that capitalism can't be reformed to what it was, even before the recession.
OT: The new Wall Street movie is trite. Again with the benign capitalism.
That is funny Duncy. As a commie you are never on topic.
Very well lets go into this obsession of Commies with Jews and creating judenfrei real estate. How do the planets greatest colonialists become victims??? Rational thought is not something associated with communists. Pointless death, treason, terrorism, lies and wholesale crimes against humanity are facts associated with your kind.
You have flunked basic math, history, logic and rational thought. Stick with doodling and obscure films and leave independent
thought to those more suited to it.
Hmmm, obscure films. Odd, Troutsky got me thinking about the early days of Italian neorealism.
The early neorealists believed we could deal with some of the post war development problems with common sense and good faith. That was all pretty much trashed and Rosi and Pasolini gave a more accurate look at the rotten core of Kapital.
As Ren says, can't get there from here. There is going to be some invasive surgery needed if we are going to pull out of this dive.
Beak, here's a little tip. The only one here obsessed with Jews is yourself. Now deal with whatever went on in your childhood in Crown Heights and stop insulting us by these petty tirades.
Sure Duncy except communists have throughout their history have exhibited a Joooo mania. Lets see how
much Judenfrei land do you need for a communist contrived fake ethnicity.
I am glad the FBI is doing their job and life for commie criminals is going to be more difficult. Hopefully, the next house they search will be the capo's. Is someone getting money from Chavez?
Is someone working with foreign intelligence.
Maybe Jim Jones should be the new role model for commies.
Looks like Chavez won a majority in last night's elections.
The last time the FBI went against Trotskyists, they lost and lost bad. The FBI bought the leader of the Socialist Workers Party a million dollar condo. They never proved in all the years of surveillance, one illegal act.
Chavez continues his antisemitism. He has meetings and prayer sessions with Venezuelan Jews. He has beefed up security to synagogues on behalf of the state. Airline flights between Caracas and Tehran have been abruptly suspended. Chavez may recognize Israel again soon.
That Ben Franklin!
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Not sure he's the source of our ills, but he certainly codified a lot of Puritan crap that IS the source of a lot of them. Funny too, to trace the arc of his career. As soon as he got enough dough, he took on the airs of a gentleman, i.e., in the old sense, one who does not work, but I don't know when he wrote his Almanacks, and stuff.
The Baudrillard quote would be funny if he meant it as a joke, but I think he imagined he was being, yet again, très profond. Besides reality, what else is there to believe in?
Just coincidentally, I came up with my brilliant Lichanian solution to the 'problem' of reality: Reality is what you experience. Now, if we only knew what 'you' means.'
Here's that link:
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Ren
The FBI will be visiting shortly. My bet is you sing to save your backside. You are too cowardly to emulate Julius and Ethel and lie while serving your sentence
Beak, I've already dealt with the FBI. They were tapping the phone at the Catholic Worker House. Or maybe it was some of your crew at Homeland Security pissing away money eavesdropping on our produce market order. Did you manage to crack the code, Officer?
Speaking of obscure films, visit Lichanos' site. He's been going through Chabrol and he's taking a look at Weimar at the moment. Good stuff.
Meanwhile, Trout, do you really think they won't back out at the last moment in November. If not, you're going to miss Ken Starr when you catch the new act.
The Rethugs might do a Thelma and Louise before they manage to completely trash the place?
Special Agent Beak, Chavez lost ground in a democratic election that was a good deal more honest than what we supervised in Iraq and Afghanistan, any comment?
Beak, just for fun could you give an answer on this one. Now, I know you hate government subsidies of all kinds but lets look back in history to the development of British classical music and how the floor fell out after the court decided to stop financial support of composers like Purcell.
Good move? Just let "the market" take care of cultural development?
Give me a few words.
Oh, Trout, step it up. Beak has Ren and I under the FBI microscope but you seem to have escaped notice. You're not trying.
Ducky
At the rate the FBI is going you just might get a nice trip to GITMO real soon. Ren is probably packing his bags as we speak.
American jails are not a place commies wish to be. Your kind fares really poor in there.
I've already read my FBI through the FOIA. They gave me too much credit. I had an FBI file in high school. In addition my name came up at the Church Committee.
The FBI would have a hard time to attack my group. They got their asses whipped, by even the Socialist Workers Party. They conceded in decades of surveillance, they never found any evidence of law breaking. Again they paid the SWP big $$ in damages. The FBI was watching the SWP atleast from the 1930s.
Beak at one time advocated "guerrilla" tactics against Cuba. That amounts to terrorism. That is code for blowing up hotels etc.
Ducky, I agree Raygun-Clinton was the one-two punch. I was just exploring roots as an academic exercise. Thanks for mentioning Rand, a segue into my next post. The new Pew study on wealth disparity is stunning, I expect the working class will be inspired to go to church more often. Another recent Pew survey showed atheists and agnostics knew far more about religious doctrine than the devoutly faithful.
Ren: I disagree that this is a "side issue". Symbolically at least, it encapsulates the crux of the modern crisis over religion, ethnicity, history and power. The poster child for uneven development.
Lichanos: I guess we differ on profound. I would be amazed if you didn't find Zizeks- Everything You Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock -at the very least intriguing. Being such a film buff and all. The impossible and the Real are not as obvious as you make them out.imho.
Here we go again with the lies of Chavez's capo cabin boy. You better be sure that your group is squeaky clean or you will be talking about Trotsky while being sold for cigarettes in the klink.
FYI FOIA files are often scrubbed so the good stuff is missing. The government likely has the goods now.You can avoid this by leaving.
Trying to cloud the issue wont work. Now remember to check your plants and light fixtures. Any one of your comwads could be an informant.
The election is coming and Obama will have to prove he is serious about dealing with your kind to remain in power. You will be nothing more than a sacrafice.
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