Posted in Musings, Quotes, Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Listen!
Are indeed quite intriguing. I have long admired their unique class, and now more than ever, I feel as though I have a duty to share my experiences with them. Though I have met, and taught quite a few people in my time, I’m quite convinced that each and every one of the seniors just [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Quotes on March 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“The diminished and impoverished Crown could no longer stand. It fought against the new wealth the struggle of the Civil Wars; it was utterly defeated; and when a final settlement was arrived at in 1660 you have all the realities of power in the hands of a small powerful class of wealthy men, the [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Quotes on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“For a society in which the determinant mass of families were owners of capital and of land; for one in which production was regulated by self-governing corporations of small owners; and for one in which the misery and insecurity of a proletariat was unknown, there came to be substituted the dreadful moral anarchy against which [...]
Posted in Quotes, Randolph Bourne on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Absurdity is an intrinsic quality of so many things that they only have to be touched to reveal it. The deadliest way to annihilate the unoriginal and the insincere is to let it speak of itself. Irony is this letting things speak for themselves and hang themselves with their own rope. Only, [...]
Posted in Badiou, Capitalism, Quotes on January 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For each identification (the creation or cobbling together of identity) creates a figure that provides a material for its investment by the market. There is nothing more captive, so far as commercial investment is concerned, nothing more amenable to the invention of new figures of monetary homogeneity, than a community and its territory or [...]
Posted in Capitalism, McCabe, McCarraher, Quotes on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I want to offer a quotation sandwich. When I read these quotes Barak Obama came to mind as he appears to be running on the Jim Wallis “Religious Values Matter” campaign (check out Obama’s speech “Call to Renewal”). I have to be honest, I am very intrigued by Obama, but for all his [...]
Posted in Quotes, Virtues on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
This quote from Groucho Marx has served me well through the years. I take it as a fundamental reality of human life that we are determined to deceive ourselves about ourselves. As such one of the most basic and fundamental [...]
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