Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans ... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les Anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them.
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