Willard prides himself on it.
I’m not familiar precisely with what I said, but I’ll stand by what I said, whatever it was.
Imitation and repetition are the instinct-drivens’ stock in trade. What was, is and will be forever more — an efficient response, if nothing else.
The issue of the 21st Century is whether or not government BY the people is going to be realized. Petty potentates all around the globe are saying, “over my dead body.” In Libya that’s what it took.
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Those are the essentials of the conservative tool box. Indirection, that’s the ticket. Is it because they do not know themselves or because deception is their natural mode? Like the killdeer?
Anyway, it might be useful to compile a dictionary of euphemisms.
Deficit = impotence
Abortion = spermicide
Marriage = dominion
Resource = exploitable
Competition = destruction
Job = make work
So many negatives. No wonder they need euphemisms!
I’ve been nattering for some time about politicians who seem to have adopted the industrial strategy of designing products to fail after a given period of time (in order to prompt a re-order and re-supply and keep funneling profits into the bottom line), by constructing legislation in such a way that it fails to accomplish its stated ends and provides an excuse for the legislator’s re-election so he can “try and try again.” That is, failure has proved the key to legislator longevity in office and power.
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Getting people hooked on a common currency can be seen as a Trojan horse, designed to gain control over how people sustain themselves without them noticing how it’s done. Blaming an immigrant population, whose migration is largely prompted by the deprivation they experience in their home country as a result of natural resource exploitation my moneyed interest, is an easy out, especially if the immigrants are easy to identify visually or linguistically.
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By prompting people like Lynn Tilton to decide that “enough is enough.”
Well, to be honest, as a neighbor tells it, Lynn Tilton is responsible for the rescue of the paper mill in Gorham, NH because her father came to her in a dream and said that taking the two million dollars from the settlement of her sex discrimination law suit and retiring early was the wrong way to go.
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Economics is not concerned with the basics — i.e. exchange and trade of goods and services. Economics is concerned with what can be measured by counting the medium of exchange — i.e. the money. So, whatever activity doesn’t involve the exchange of money as a sort of middleman doesn’t count. What can’t be counted doesn’t count.
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Because in union they achieve happiness, a condition which contradicts the preferred default, the sadness of the dominated and suppressed. If humans aren’t sad to begin with, how is the promise of a reward in the after-life going to get them to do what they’re told? Psychological domination goes hand in hand with private property. It reinforces the condition that if humans are to survive they must do what they are told — i.e. the culture of obedience requires these constraints.
Gay marriage threatens traditional marriage because it negates the hierarchy of power. The relationship is horizontal, rather than top down. (I picked up that concept from a TED lecture on Howard Moskowitz).
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