mailcall feeds my cynicism...whether it's loan offers seeking to erode my equity....cable deals i simply cannot afford to pass up...tracts...rent-to-own circulars...or the ever specious political mailings they all reinforce my world view in a way that most other media ( except, perhaps a column by that ass friedman) can't even approach...so blatantly based and manipulative that i am contnually astonished at how foolish the senders think i am...they are mistaken, of course...most of us are more than capable of penetrating their transparent motives...that's why it's called junk mail... the organization that i pay on a monthly basis to represent me in work related matters has sent me an urgent postcard announcing that it has uncovered a movement to marginalize workers and to liquidate middle america as a class...stunning in its obviousness...where were these guys during the reagan/bush years ( or the clinton years for that matter...i had always thought that carter was the most republican of democratic presidents...he is the one who started the whole "deregualtion" ball rolling...a sort of populist nixon...but then came the bubba from little rock who sold us nafta and gave h ross perot the ammunition to destroy third party politics in america for another few generations...and they impeached him over the intern business?) where they were was doing alright and so unconcerned about the the future...well...the future is here and they are as fucked as any of the rest of us...the economy is facing a number of serious dilemmas ( as opposed to problems...you can listen to politicians whistle in the dark as they pass the empires open grave but they are fooling you as well as themselves with the bullshit talk about "recovery"...the combined weight of climate change, energy shortages, water shortages, spiraling food prices, and foolish stop-gap measures will eventually crush the degenerate bastards where they stand and i will not mourn their passing) and their phony jobs are on the line...they need help to get their point across and since they have done so much for me as a worker it's time for me to step up and make my voice heard in the lair of the beast...(they don't need everybody's help though as the fine print disclaimer at the bottom discloses...it is a craft union after all and contracts are sacrosanct...the representaives are "business agents" ...nothing so undignified as "steward" or the even more proletarian "griever"...they are patricians of labor...and they have a responsibility to uphold the honorable traditions they inherited from samuel l gompers)...good luck guys...i have a mid-term in linguistic anthropology on thursday...i have my own priorities.
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