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2016/06/14 · 20:41

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Rock n Roll's Disastrous Legacy

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 10:39 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 22:39

American political culture does not arise from education - despite the influence of Public Administration programs from leading Institutions and Political Science programs with their small collections of enthusiastic debaters and would-be attorneys. All the power in our political culture arises from agencies of consumerism - businesses, corporations, would-be lotto winners, car enthusiasts, electronics buffs, ATV owners - anyone with an interest in promoting lifestyle and wealth; which places the overwhelming majority of people, young and old, in the political classes that run everything - that is the consumer class - and that class cares about nothing except preservation of personal happiness as measured in hours of music, availability of excess food supplies, hours of driving around, consumption of drugs and alcohol, freedom to act on impulse, and freedom from labor.

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Friday June 12, 2009 · 8:41 PM PDT

2009/06/12 · 20:41

It is useful to understand that, in the US, the decentralization of Christian power in the post-Reformation era produced a hundred or more small centers of organization - the denominations; each of which reflect the era in which they crystallized; the cultural heritage of the ethnic group to which the originators of the denomination belonged, and the peculiarities of the personalities who formed the ideas and traditions that constitute the crystalline structure in consciousness that is copied by its adherents from generation to generation.

It is as if, when the originating organism - the Roman Catholic Church, broke into pieces, each broken piece grew anew, but with only fragments of the code of the parent organism, and incorporating new instructions from elements that it synthesized from competing and proximal religious systems; and from mutations that were introduced by individuals and smaller collections as they replicated; so that, decade by decade, an entirely diverse set of child organisms, like so many breeds of dogs, appeared - all of them still called Christian.

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Does progressivism overlap with ecumenism?

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Does progressivism overlap with ecumenism?

yes - more than less

29 votes

no - progressivism includes more and more mega-church christians

1 vote

no - progressives are post-christian

10 votes

progressivism does not imply acceptance of gay culture

8 votes

Abandon commodification of electronic content

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Saturday April 11, 2009 · 6:14 PM PDT

2009/04/11 · 18:14

There are dozens of diaries discussing one or another opinion about the closing of newspapers: causes and effects, diarists hate the newspaper or not, they say the newspaper was shit or not. Opinions about the value of newsprint v. television v. internet are critical components of defining a new economy. But this diarist maintains that the central cause for the failure of newspapers and other media is that the networks by which information is delivered and replicated demands new forms of economy - because the basis of the political economy does not apply in this newly constructed network. Outside of normative controls there is little to stop replication and distribution of content. Nor should there be.

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Thursday April 09, 2009 · 9:42 AM PDT

2009/04/09 · 09:42

This is a defense and explanation of my diary from yesterday: "The Precendential Inawegrewnation of Balack Nobomba". Please forgive the indulgence.

I published yesterday's diary consisting primarily of portmanteau words, puns and wordpuzzles as a kind of linguistic celebration of the inauguration and first one-hundred days of the new Administration. For me, the diary was a positive and entertaining way to think about and write about politics. Whether the composition itself is good or clever or lame or not does not trouble me - de gustibus non est disputandum - but it was troublesome to find a dozen or more folks who thought the diary entry was racist and/or stupid. Should I continue to post under this pseudonym, I would not want this one diary entry to go misunderstood or insulting to the sensibilities of self-proclaimed Kossacks. (An appellation that is itself a made-up word, the result of wordplay ;) .

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Wednesday April 08, 2009 · 5:46 PM PDT

2009/04/08 · 17:46

Genuweary Twinteeth To Throwsand Nein in Wishingtown, Dawestruck of Corrumptbeya (the tea this far from Boston is silent), allmust two minion Armoricans came togather on the Kewpiedoll Mall to cerebrate Martyr Luster King Day and the Inaggregation of der Forte Forth Placidont.

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Tuesday April 07, 2009 · 7:04 PM PDT

2009/04/07 · 19:04

The widely accepted appellation "me generation" defines one of the effects of the blindly narcissistic political economy and venal philosophy that has dominated the popular culture and has expanded its influence and footprint since the era of Ronald Reagan. The most egregious and omnipresent artifact of the me generation is the automobile, a machine that is an extension of the self and of private property and individualism; the massive overproduction of which, and overinvestment in, stupidly and arrogantly squandered the labor and material resources of an entire generation.

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Do you think that draconian measures are justified to alter the automobile economy?

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Do you think that draconian measures are justified to alter the automobile economy?

No - this is an extreme argument.

10 votes

No - we have to sustain the automobile industry as it is until it evolves itself.

2 votes

No - I plan to continue to purchase quality vehicles and do not want high taxes.

0 votes

No - this is a tired discussion.

2 votes

I do not care at all and did not finish reading.

1 vote

I read some but it is someone else's issue.

0 votes

Yes - there are actions that can be taken.

13 votes

Yes - I will think about what I can do.

1 vote

Yes - This is old hat but thanks anyway.

2 votes

Strategic Collapse

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Saturday March 28, 2009 · 4:27 AM PDT

2009/03/28 · 04:27

To understand the financial collapse of 2008-9, as it is called, it is best to answer the questions, who benefits? and what strategic goals are being realized? The standard explanations: incompetence, greed, inaccurate risk algorithms and etc. are not sufficient to explain what is happening to the world financial system if you take as a baseline that the meltdown is a combination of design and accident.

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Sunday November 23, 2008 · 9:09 PM PST

2008/11/23 · 21:09

The ability to transform potential energy that is stored in fossil fuels to the energy of motion by means of mechanically controlled fire, is Black Magic. Most of the modern political economy arose from the work of Black Magicians.

For virtually anyone educated in the west in the last seven or eight centuries, this characterization seems archaic or absurd - but it should not. This essentially medieval language powerfully expresses a simple truth that is hidden in plain sight; black magicians accrue power to themselves and control most of humanity by means of directing and controlling energy; and most human beings in the developed world move and breathe and have their being governed by images and implements that are the domain of the Black Arts.

In the context of the culture wars it is useful to for progressives and environmentalists to call out black magic for what it is, a force focused on its own gain and on the expansion of the material culture that is its work. Black Magic threatens the planetary life itself, and yet has become so ordinary that it is unremarkable.

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Rock n Roll's Disastrous Legacy

Types of Christianity and Gay Politics

Abandon commodification of electronic content

Linguistic play and the language of politics

The Precendential Inawegrewnation of Balack Nobomba

America's Squandered Wealth - the Self-Mobile

Strategic Collapse

The Hydrocarbon Economy and the Chains of Black Magic