Look, no listen, no hear… The world is riven. More and more we strike epiphanic notes. Aha, the world is run by the few at the expense of the many. Aha, utility privileges the few…
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The Long-Haired Persian Knows It Well: An Errant Snapshot of Greece
Errant contributor Photine Liakos sends us a verbal snapshot of Greece, from Greece, below. While we in the States can know nothing that isn’t punditry promoted by the IMF and the World Bank (unless you’re…
Servicing the Masters (SOP): The Daily Show and OWS
They truly were the least-toileted generation. That quote is from Jon Stewart in the show’s most recent foray into humor at the expense of thought. Take a look and then come back (sorry, I can’t…
Seriously, Just Pay the Vig…Or Else. Schumer Earning His Keep.
Today the HT prints an AP piece that focuses on a proposal (modest?) by one of our many distrusted politicians, Charles Schumer of NY. We distrust Schumer because he is the Senator who receives the…
Reading Is (and Is Not) Power
Historically, reading is power. Rather, reading was an activity limited to those in power. The Catholic Church refused to allow the Bible to be translated from the Latin (a Power language of the church) to…
Human Potential, Time Discipline and Post-Edenic Mind
There is only rendering, the rendered, upon which there is thought. This is the basis of our understanding of mind. Ruskin, Freud, Proust…Bernays, Goebbels, Gossage and so on. In one sense there is an undiscovered…
Project Lead the Way–Engineering Children for Corporate Military Fodder
[In the following Doug Martin once again connects the dots for us. “Right-wing” now seems to mean only “Mammon-Worship” and I’m certain that we need no political affiliation any longer to describe this disease. The…
The Unambiguous Ethic of Power
The “framing text” is a section from Simone de Beauvior’s 1947 book The Ethics of Ambiguity, “The Antinomies of Action”. Indented, intrusive text is Errant and clearly labeled. *** As we have seen, if the…
The Railroad Rides Upon Us: On the Pursuit of Uneventfulness
We embody a type of greatness. We are of capacity. We are of potential. And yet we are nearly entirely imbecilic in body and mind. Of what, on what, in what do we spend our…
“Stick ’em Up!” US and IMF Policies Explained
I just started reading David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5000 Years and I’d like to keep you apprised as I go. I heard Graeber via a podcast and then saw an interview with…