decision day

in the end i see it as a negative choice...the hegemonic culture is not my culture...but go vote lest the slimiest of the cretins gains influence...they already do a multitude of things in my name that infuriate me but this loathsome creep is utterly unacceptable.

political silence broken

all politicians are whores....this is an a priori truth that is indisputable to the extent of being second nature to any really sentient being...i haven't had much to say because it has been such a foul political season with the bullshit " say nothing that pins you to a position" avoidance of commitment though lame rhetoric that i really felt it to be beneath contempt ( and i still yearn to be found in contempt of congress so i can put it on my cv )...but guy fawkes day is a political celebration ( even though the republicans would call it terrorism i would call the powder plot populist outrage and direct political action ) and as good a day as any to break my political silence ( i concluded who my choices were long ago...the fucking thing has only served to positively reinforce my loathing ) and say this mourdock fellow is a complete and utter atavistic throwback to a time when robber barons roamed the earth ( in overt fashion...not hidden behind glitzy pr like today's economic thugs are ) and greasy bags of hundred dollar bills were the currency of political debate...only the pea-brained republican worshipers of wealth will vote for this reeking turd...anyone with an ounce of intellect and with any respect for women will send this clown home tomorrow...where are dr. tarr and professor feather when you need them? flog this creep to the dustbin labeled " hamiltonian "...pull the "you must be fucking joking" lever on november sixth.

co-opt at all costs

"i am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the trade union or goes into labor politics, he becomes quite middle class, whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoise he becomes a bourgeois." from "the road to wigan pier diary" by george orwell 2.6-10.36 ____________________________________________________________________________ george was a sensitive to ironies as he was inequalities...so is this a mechanism of hegemonic culture? anyone who might acquire real influence must be co-opted into the status quo? i have to think so...inclusion as a reward ( or control) for showing initiative or ability that might pose a threat if enough of it was left outside the system...the threat of loss of inclusion ( the control part ), status, economic security for political or philosophical heresy...reinforcement of the elite's orthodoxies...certainly holds true in my union...it's run like a business and leadership has common interest with capital in controlling labor...strikes, slowdowns, a vocal dissent on policy all impede the union's cash flow since their product is industrial peace in contract size chunks...the nature of a union official's duties and obligations push them towards a rapprochement with management and distances them from those purport to represent...an unfortunate circumstance that has turned the "official" labor movement into a special interest...doesn't come as much of a surprise that there weren't many indignant howls of protest from walmart employees when indiana became a right-to-work state...fairly soon unions will be a memory...just like a healthy economy ( healthy for whom? that's a question for another blog...certainly the economic health of wage earners isn't at the top of wall street's agenda...or whoretown's for that matter no matter what those sluts say about "the street"...we're in the middle of another one of joseph schumpeter's foul "contest for votes"...sit back and ask yourself what's changed come next january and make an assessment of whether it's for the better...odds are it won't be for you and me mac...win or lose old mitt will still be doing okay...not so the 23,110,695 "actual unemployed" the u s national debt clock is showing [ as opposed to the politically expediently cooked numbers the bureau of labor statistics arms the whores with]...they will still be putting up with conditions that transfer their wealth to mitt so he can send it offshore...where is the lake of fire? )...then it will be time to rebuild something that is a bit more worker friendly and has the gumption to assert its numbers and subvert the hamiltonian disenfranchisement of the political will of the people.

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.

so is this freedom or indoctination

the "nanny" is part of a full page ad in today's new york times attacking bloomberg's proposed ban on "sugary" drinks over 16 fluid ounces, placed by something called consumerfreedom.com ( if you're going to propagandize people why not turn a profit while you're at it? nothing dr. goebbels wouldn't approve of...he wasn't stingy when it came to taking care of himself...why should these guys? )telling me i have a right to induce type 2 diabetes if i want and who is the government to tell me what i can and cannot pound down? the fact that most of those "sugary" drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup ( the drink of the devil ) seems to be eluding ( or is being obfuscated )most of these bozos...fuck the indoctrinators...watch "king corn"...read some of marion nestle's blogs on hfcs...and make your own choice...i've dropped fifty pounds in the last few years mostly by avoiding anything with hfcs in it like the plauge...i don't much like government or its institutions but the empirical evidence tells me that consumerfreedom.com is a scam front for the hfcs syndicate and they can go get bent.