August 25, 2013 “There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line know what any of it is worth” “No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke “There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late” All along the watchtower, princes kept the view While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl. More straight talk from Mirowski: “What purportedly rescues Hayek’s system from descending into some sort of relativist quagmire is the precept that the market does the thinking for us that we cannot. The real danger to humanity resides in the character who mistakenly believes he can think for himself.” “It replaces the time-honored ambition to ‘know yourself’ with the exhortation to ‘express yourself’, with everything the bunco shift in verbs implies… The effect of this congeries of technologies, entertainments, mobilizations, and distractions has been first and foremost to reinforce the exoteric version of the neoliberal self, but more important has served to so addle and discombobulate the populace that they end up believing the adoption of neoliberal notions constitutes wicked rebellion against the powers that be, corporations and a corrupt political class. The nimble trick of portraying a neoliberal world as an insurgency… is the secret weapon of the Russian doll structure, deflecting the gale-force winds of decades of economic contraction.” And from Blake’s Proverbs: “The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.” Sometimes Eek can hardly hear himself think for all the senseless cawing going on these days. But, as he keeps reminding himself, what one outfit has made can also be un-made by another. Lord knows he’s doesn’t for a New York minute believe it’ll be easy, only that it can be done. Oh, and It helps if you get on to yourself a bit and ease up on magical thinking. Just sayin’.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:07:09 +0000
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