cultural hegemony = skewed data

in an uncharacteristic and pretty much impulsive act ( which should have the marketers among you salivating since impulse is your god ) i bought a local newspaper today to go along with the n y times that comes to my door ( no i don't trust them either...but it is the paper of record...read it...check out the evening news...epiphany ) after being suitably unimpressed i began to look for crossword puzzles...one happened to be in the "jobs" section...some section...one piece of standard newsprint folded into the standard four pages you get out of one...the front page was consumed by advertizements and an article about the perfect resume and the back page was all adverts...page two was half consumed by an advice column on workplace interactions and the continuation of the resume article and a third of page three was the crossword...that left room for ads or 45 jobs...the "official" unemployed class in lake county indiana is 19,628...you can add ninety percent to that because politicians cook the numbers out of political expedient...not many jobs for all those poor sods...but the dow is soaring ( mostly because a bunch of bankers have sworn on a stack of bibles that they'll save the euro form the intrinsic nationalist loathings that have been on the loose in europe forever and a day...good luck you technocratic morons..irreducible ethnic nationalism will stick a shiv up your ass and smile while doing it )...but that bunch of penguins is no good as an indicator of the real world...they're just betting...and mostly against the rest of us...it's an election year and the whores are going to tell you it's better than it really is and try to sell you on how they can make it better while saying as little of anything substantive about things as they can...they are part of the hegemonic culture with a vested interest in keeping us uniformed about real conditions because if we start to change things they stand to lose wealth and power ( which would be a good thing as far as i can see...but i read a lot and that isn't healthy in the orthodox view of the elite )..so? start thinking critically people and work on the skills and shadow institutions you 'll need to save yourselves when the whole thing implodes ( when? who knows but resource substitution is idiocy and economists are the new alchemists trying to make gold out of base metals all the time not realizing that the ensuing glut would make it more worthless than it is as anything but a fair conductor of electricity...shiny lead...the rest is an abstraction...have a hard look at a natural economy and tell me it will withstand endless extraction...someone should teach these fools some biology)...in the end they are doomed to morph into fascists as they are faced by the threat of substantive change from below...then chicago becomes aleppo...and whoever is presidents turns int bashir al assad

fuck these people

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/magazine/can-the-democrats-catch-up-in-the-super-pac-game.html?hpw _____________________________ joseph schumpeter hit the nail on the head when he said there isn't any "common good' involved in american politics...only a contest for votes after which the needs and interests of "the voter" become secondary ( if that ) to the interests of those who fund the campaigns...and joe died in 1950 so there isn't much of anything new in this observation...the system has been seriously skewed since at least 1789 and it is humming along the way the framers intended...they couldn't have foreseen the technology or the obscene amount of money that would come to be involved but the basic strategy of marginalizing the political will of any majority would come shining through to them and their ultimate approval...jay madison and that ass hamilton belong at the center of the lake of fire with old bill maclay standing over them pouring on the brimstone...i don't care who is "in the white house... the interests they represent are not my interests and never will be...time to save your own damned self...these jokers don't give a rat's ass what happens to you once you cast a vote.

july 3rd 1790

"these yorkers are the vilest of people. their vices have not the palliation of being manly. they resemble bad schoolboys who are unfortunate at play: they revenge themselves by telling notorious thumpers. even the new england men say that (rufus) king's character is detestable...a perfect canvas for the devil to paint on; a groundwork void of every virtue." the journal of william maclay 1789-1791. july 3, 1790. _________________________________________________________________________ rufus king was a senator from massachucetts and one of those "new england men" who kept the tariff bill bogged down in committee after committee so that their "constituents" could profit by charging their "customers" for a tariff they had yet to have to pay...another of thst "nest of vipers" old bill had to serve with and whom he detested so much for their backroom deals and manipulations of public policy for private profit...as the foul slide into the cesspit of the 2012 presidential election gathers unrelenting speed and generates a massive amount of cash for the correctly placed public relations firms and media outlets let's stop to consider that the system isn't broken...its well oiled hamiltonian/hegemonic culture machinery is humming along just as it was meant to...not that the goebbels of his time could foresee the technological gizmos or the finely tuned and byzantine ethical rationalizations that would develop..but he'd surely recognize the spirit of the system as an old, familiar friend it is...swilling from the trough of public policy has deep roots in america...a storied tradition with the likes of roscoe conklin and william howard taft as leading characters...willing to sell out the "voter" at the drop of a five dollar bill much less a greasy paper sack of wilted hundreds...bath house john and hinky dink called it "honest graft"...but they were small-time operators in a chicago ward with a parochial outlookon "honest" that viewed the everleigh sisters as upright and charles tyson yerkes as a role model......i'm inclined to call it a corrupt system run for corrupt ends ...and if joe, barak, hillary, mitt, or that lame assed quitter from alaska don't agree send them around...i'll be happy to give them an anti-federalist tutorial on madison jay and hamilton that would leave the tea party hacks gasping for breath and stampeeding the exits.