whorespeak

"both parties are planning legislative maneuvers this week to try to caricature their opponents as either in the pockets of the oil companies or hostile to domestic energy production. the debate may generate a fair ammount of noise that provides one side or the other with a temporary political advantage but is unlikely to have an apperciable impact on gasoline prices."
n y times 4-30-2011


"every time an american has to shell out $60 or $80 to fill their tanks they mutter under their breaths about government. it puts pressure on congress and the white house to do something. but it is just howling at the moon. the basic laws of supply and demand have n't changed."
byron l dorgan
chair of the energy project
bi-partisan policy center


imagine my surprise...while the whores bark, howl, or, better yet, quack at each other ( orwell's concept of "duckspeak" fits the mode of public political debate in the late empire...thanks eric) about culpability in the disintegration of the economy, oil company apologists are telling us to suck it up and keep the pumps flowing and the credit card companies flush with the ensuing debt peonage...the ponzi scheme that is the second republic ( although of late i have been mulling over the possibility of the third republic based on the overt, public sea change in the way the people view government in the wake of the criminality of the nixon adminstration and the perceptions of the voting public held by the ruling elite since the "regan revolution' so forcefully reinforced hamiltonian precepts of the basic unfitness of the population at large to do much more than serve the interests of that elite and learn to like it) is in serious shit folks...they don't have a clue really and in their desperation they are turning to academic economists and the slugs from business schools across the country...so desperate that they are willing to listen to any crackbrained scheme anyone with a few academic credentials has to offer...i have said before and am saying again that they are pretty much finished as far as constructive ideas go...it's time to create an alternative independent of the exiisting political institutions that actually serves the needs of people, not artificial corporate entities...it's an idea that won't sit well with anyone with a vested interest in things as they were before the recent collapse...but that past is as dead as cheney's ethics...time to let go and move on...people are smart, resourceful, adaptive animals that can work out survival strategies indepenent of abstract authority...it will be a long slog to get out of the cultural trap sprung by industrial capitalism and all the bullshit rationalizations it has fashioned into a secular religion and called consumerism...it can be done...unplug the tv and start to think.