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[jingofever]

"Were it not for David Lynch, Miley would never have been Hannah Montana." - Billy Ray Cyrus

[DevilYouKnow]

It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

[Jeff]

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

[charlie meadows]

Giordano Bruno forgot the golden rule for survival: Scire, tacere. To know and keep silent. Apparently he knew the right things, but he talked too much.

Then there was the time, years earlier, when he woke up in Nikon's arms. The first thing he did was phone La Ponte and tell him he'd met a beautiful woman and it was very much like being in love....

Once he'd thought he really loved Nikon.... When he watched her defending the freedom of peoples and signing petitions for the release of imprisoned intellectuals, oppressed ethnic minorities, things like that. And seals. Once she'd even managed to get him to sign something about seals.

[jingofever]

"Markets like totalitarian governments." - Larry Fink, "who manages over $3 trillion, and is the world's biggest asset manager."

[DevilYouKnow]

This primitive accumulation plays in Political Economy about the same part as original sin in theology. Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. Its origin is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote of the past. In times long gone-by there were two sorts of people; one, the diligent, intelligent, and, above all, frugal elite; the other, lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living. (...) Thus it came to pass that the former sort accumulated wealth, and the latter sort had at last nothing to sell except their own skins. And from this original sin dates the poverty of the great majority that, despite all its labour, has up to now nothing to sell but itself, and the wealth of the few that increases constantly although they have long ceased to work.

[Allegro]

— FWIW —

… If we give credence to the research detailing the centrality of affection in father-son relations and the relative irrelevance of the father’s “masculinity,” it becomes clear that boys don’t hunger for fathers who will model traditional mores of masculinity. They hunger for fathers who will rescue them from it. They need fathers who have themselves emerged from the gauntlet of their own socialization with some degree of emotional intactness. Sons don’t want their father’s “balls”; they want their hearts. And, for many, the heart of a father is a difficult item to come by. Oftentimes, the lost boy the depressed son must recover is the one not he but his father has disavowed.

REFER thread; REFER streeb.

[Jeff]

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

[jingofever]

"Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you've been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart." - Roger Ebert, from his review for Battle: Los Angeles.

[compared2what?]

[vanlose kid]

My quote for this decade: "If ‘War is an extension of Politics by other means’ then, Politics is an extension of Economics by other means and further, Economics is an extension of Servitude by other means. We go to war today so we create servitude in others tomorrow. Politics, Economics, Warfare, Servitude; they’re all manifestations of the same fundamental flaw in the Human Psyche, that Control is a cure for Fear."

by TwoShortPlanks
on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 23:41
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/operat ... nt-1048942

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[vanlose kid]

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. – Simone Weil, The Need For Roots (1949)


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[Stephen Morgan]

“Control over the use of ones ideas really constitutes control over other peoples lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.”
-Richard M. Stallman

[Stephen Morgan]

It has been suggested, I think by the hon. Member for East Aberdeenshire (Mr. Boothby) that the most constructive suggestion he could make was to urge an early General Election and a return of a Tory Government in Britain. Why on earth should he want to prophesy what might result from a Tory Government when history has the record for him? Why read the crystal when he can read the book?
-- Nye Bevan

[The Consul]

"You shouldn't grieve for what is unavoidable." - Isherwood's Bhaavad-Gita