Oct. 22nd, 2008

ineffabelle: (pagoda)
When I see a guy like Ben Bernanke or Paulson with their goddamn 10000 dollar suits and gold rings and shit...

and you know, they never did one good thing for ANYONE in their life. You have to root for the whole thing to go down.
If you're worried about your 401K plan, you have the wrong perspective. You have no idea what poverty really means.

Go ask some 50 year old guy in Indonesia lifting heavy shit all day for a dollar what he thinks of the fact that you have to sell your house for 100K less than you paid for it.

The plan shouldn't be for us to salvage our domination over the world and keep squeezing the shit out of everyone else so we can afford 500 dollar outfits. If it is, we deserve to go down in flames.
ineffabelle: (thingy medicine)
People respond to trigger phrases and not actual logic. Assuming what is not spoken.

The experiment yields results but not happy ones.

EDIT:
to clarify, I've been called "a communist", "a capitalist" and other horrible things, while not changing the mechanism of what I actually believe one whit, just emphasising different aspects of it.
I don't think institutions are helpful to us, but I'd rather have a kindly farmer farming me than a cruel farmer.
In the end, I think the whole thing will go down in flames because the S/M dimension of human relation is limited/non-universal. And I look forward to it. I think the slaves are sometimes more dangerous than the masters, because they resent people who don't play along. The masters don't give a shit at least.
And again, if the people who want to be slaves wanted to free the rest of us, they could throw off the masters in a matter of days, if they only knew they could. My job then, is to let them know that.
ineffabelle: (squirrel love)
Emotions come from ontological situations, this is their value.

Do not roll your eyes at yourself, or anyone else. Instead, examine your situation and discover your ontological grounds.
Then you will learn about yourself and find your way. Even if the Other does not learn right away, you will, and then you win anyway.
ineffabelle: (swanky)
"You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value."

"Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. And that is what was to be found here. The corrido. The tale. And like all corridos it ultimately told one story only, for there is only one to tell."

- Cormac McCarthy

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