It is this–more from Matalin than from Romney–that makes me believe the US has “leaders” (oligarchs) entirely capable of a massive “downsizing” of its population. Who would offer to defend the population of the US against its government/oligarchs? Who can “correct” the unmatched military power in the world–the one who has proven more than ready [...]
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Absentee America
The Big House, you see, still stands, though now the tenants are the absentees. Paul Muldoon in Horse Latitudes photo credit: Old Ship Church by Kallicrates
What Is American Education?
Today, though it is certainly by now an “old” debate, our Sunday paper has an “opinion” piece about Common Core State Standards. The Errant has posted before on this (here, and here–the collusion of “divergent” interests) but I want to try to elaborate a bit on what I think are the things that are not [...]
But It Isn’t Freedom
Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens, I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth. [...]
Against the Eye of Self
This is a huge topic in my own mind, and if you read this blog or the previous blog (Nemesis) this is no revelation (ah, damn, a visual term). I think it is an enormous calamity: we are dominated by the visual sense. Almost entirely excluding all other senses. (Robert Harrison, in a recent podcast [...]
Breaching the Sound
Breaching the Sound Born upon speculation only the gamble for the ground Anchored against the past our foundling fathers founder us Pledged to declarations constitutive bodies come unmoored Gauged between self and state owing all to each as purchased Sounding the breach
Soulless We Externalize
For Eric…seeking a French story. “But I admit that I am indulging in theoretical considerations of the short story, although happily I can disregard them when I begin to write. But I am not satisfied that the American form is the better. The American method at its best is to tell a story which prepares [...]
The Unexceptional, Unsurprising Success of America’s Bully Class
Here is a paragraph from Salon.com’s Andrew O’Hehir on the MPAA’s choice to rate the documentary about school bullying “R” and thus limit and restrict access to the kids who already live worse lives than the movie might “expose them” to. The MPAA is ridiculous on its face. Any movie you can think of with [...]
Bury These Nostaligias
Is there a better way to demonstrate the absolute vacuity of America and its “gifts” to the world than the Academy Awards? This morning I read a critique of the telecast on Salon by their movie critic Andrew O’Hehir. He said it stunk. This was not a surprise. When we applaud the “meta” career of [...]
A Society Which Ought Not To Exist
“Society ought not to exist, if not for the benefit of the whole. It is and must be against the law of nature, if it exist for the benefit of the few and for the misery of the many. I say, then, distinctly, that a society, in which the common labourer, with common health and [...]
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The Chaos of Monoculture
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The Custom House: Louis Agassiz with Christoph Irmscher
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