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Sunday, December 30, 2012
SOMEONE LIKES THIS RECENTLY WHY SHOULDN'T YOU TOO
Re boards of directors, experts, academicians, Rumpole, Rum, Maverick Executive, team play, etc.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-academic-industrial-simpletonex.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-academic-industrial-simpletonex.html
the menu Polish or Ukrainian holiday soup
This is dedicated to the BFF
Three or four large organic potatoes, finely sliced or diced, covered, almost, with water, in the bottom of a good pot.
Add a half cup of Ba Tam pt garlic dill pickle juice to the water, one crushed clove garlic, and a half or whole large cooking onion, finely diced.
Cook covered. Add, near the end, say 10 minutes, three tablespoons health food rendered smoked bacon fat,
and one cup, at least, drained organic sauerkraut.
Add ground pepper and Tabasco to taste;
no additional salt, as some of these ingredients are loaded with it already.
Chilled Riesling, or East European beer, or chilled Vodka.
Three or four large organic potatoes, finely sliced or diced, covered, almost, with water, in the bottom of a good pot.
Add a half cup of Ba Tam pt garlic dill pickle juice to the water, one crushed clove garlic, and a half or whole large cooking onion, finely diced.
Cook covered. Add, near the end, say 10 minutes, three tablespoons health food rendered smoked bacon fat,
and one cup, at least, drained organic sauerkraut.
Add ground pepper and Tabasco to taste;
no additional salt, as some of these ingredients are loaded with it already.
Chilled Riesling, or East European beer, or chilled Vodka.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
G LOBOTOMIZATION GLOBALIZATION NOW FAR ADVANCED
G lobotomal global market capitalism may be unwinding faster than enthusiasts have predicted.
Market capitalism, not held in check, eventually gives itself a lobotomy: it globotomizes itself by globalizing.
That has been what we have been seeing for several decades now.
Market capitalism, not held in check, eventually gives itself a lobotomy: it globotomizes itself by globalizing.
That has been what we have been seeing for several decades now.
Friday, December 28, 2012
AMERICANS MAY SOON FIND OUT
PERHAPS, AN OLD STORY BY NOW.
That Apple has found out,
that their ideas are being gutted. say lobotomized, and knocked off by copycat Asian nations where their products have been made for so long.
None of that will have been a surprise for me.
That Apple has found out,
that their ideas are being gutted. say lobotomized, and knocked off by copycat Asian nations where their products have been made for so long.
None of that will have been a surprise for me.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
the holiday menu for Gigi
High quality panetone slices, egg and milk dipped,
pan butter fried French toast,
whipped butter,
maple syrup, or raspberry conserve if needed,
fat link pork breakfast sausages
italian roast coffee
Background music: Dino Robbins
pan butter fried French toast,
whipped butter,
maple syrup, or raspberry conserve if needed,
fat link pork breakfast sausages
italian roast coffee
Background music: Dino Robbins
A USEFUL DISCUSSION ON GUNS AND MASS KILLINGS IN CONTEXT
I just started to read this.
Randall Collins' September 1, 2012 post.
Randall Collins' September 1, 2012 post.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
re BBC the typical economist line re Japan
'Ask any economist of any stripe what Japan needs and they will give you a very similar list.
Regulation needs to be loosened, foreign investment welcomed and women empowered to stay at work while raising families.'
Question: if this has not worked. in the long run, for almost all already developed economies, or for the successful developing ones,
as we are now seeing,
why would anyone think it should work for Japan now, after a long successful developmental protectionist state period, 1950 to 1980 or so, but then
torpedoed by the US opening to China after the Nixon Shock?
Saturday, December 15, 2012
BRILLIANT DISCUSSION OF POLITICS
Randall Collins:
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"
Thursday, December 13, 2012
someone likes this old note on economics
Why shouldn't we reprise it now?
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/06/cobdenist-manchester-school-corn-law.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/06/cobdenist-manchester-school-corn-law.html
Sunday, December 2, 2012
PAUL FINKELMAN not so good
Yet his description of the real Jefferson is pretty much accurate.
The point, however, is that these , Jefferson's,
were the mainstream white views at the time, everywhere in the world. They were mostly Lincoln's views too! Most abolitionists' as well. Not some creepy hypocritical aberration.
They considered them not fully human, a very very common, if quite erroneous, view.
But it's an issue he does not want to look at that way.
The ' aberration ' here is Finkelman's.
Grandstanding punditry rather than sober analysis.
The point, however, is that these , Jefferson's,
were the mainstream white views at the time, everywhere in the world. They were mostly Lincoln's views too! Most abolitionists' as well. Not some creepy hypocritical aberration.
They considered them not fully human, a very very common, if quite erroneous, view.
But it's an issue he does not want to look at that way.
The ' aberration ' here is Finkelman's.
Grandstanding punditry rather than sober analysis.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
RE NOCERO RACE AND NCAA
NO MORE A COINCIDENCE, IS IT, THAN RECENT PROSECUTIONS OF INVESTMENT ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR ON WALL STREET?
One wonders why the nyt did not pick up, or did it, on such similar recent coincidences in its own back yard, so to speak?
Perhaps they had been warned off such a story, or not sell enough newspapers, or raise the bugbear of an attacks among ethnic white rivalries on and off Wall Street?
Yet it's almost always ok to raise the spectre of black white racism here. Indian (not black) entrepreneurs are open season with impunity it seems. No questions asked.
One wonders why the nyt did not pick up, or did it, on such similar recent coincidences in its own back yard, so to speak?
Perhaps they had been warned off such a story, or not sell enough newspapers, or raise the bugbear of an attacks among ethnic white rivalries on and off Wall Street?
Yet it's almost always ok to raise the spectre of black white racism here. Indian (not black) entrepreneurs are open season with impunity it seems. No questions asked.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
re JUST A SCHOLARLY REFERENCE FOR ALL YOU ZEALOTS OUT THERE CHRISTIANS JEWS AND MUSLIMS
Read The Bible Unearthed.
It deals with Old Testament, or Torah, period, and later Old Testament, .............. ancient history, the so called ' promised land ' period too, with current archaeological research findings.
Very illuminating.
Paraphrasing a classic line in 'The Graduate', ('plastics')
I've got just one word for you: CAMELS
(The Old Testament is filled with references to ' camel caravans '.....................)
A must read for anyone who wants to know something,
rather than just believing something.
For the reading challenged, there is a miniseries:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC7EAEC99E1CE728
It deals with Old Testament, or Torah, period, and later Old Testament, .............. ancient history, the so called ' promised land ' period too, with current archaeological research findings.
Very illuminating.
Paraphrasing a classic line in 'The Graduate', ('plastics')
I've got just one word for you: CAMELS
(The Old Testament is filled with references to ' camel caravans '.....................)
A must read for anyone who wants to know something,
rather than just believing something.
For the reading challenged, there is a miniseries:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC7EAEC99E1CE728
RE A FAREWELL TO FANGS NYT
That was really mean of the Times, right now,
to publish fan remark
'not able to act out of a box'!
Lawyers and law students might be expected to dis like that...........
What a meanie publication the nyt can be.
(I know what it's like dealing with a little meanie like that!)
to publish fan remark
'not able to act out of a box'!
Lawyers and law students might be expected to dis like that...........
What a meanie publication the nyt can be.
(I know what it's like dealing with a little meanie like that!)
RE BBC ARTICLE RE EAST CHINA SEA ISLANDS CHINA JAPAN
They, BBC, mentioned in passing that Japan and China established diplomatic relations only in 1972.
(Maybe they, relations, had existed in the past at some point. Certainly, playing three sides, non diplomatically, in the Cold War, had long been surreptitiously going on behind the scenes.)
Coincidental that that was around the time of the Nixon Shock? The dumb money in the room.
Term search: poker, poke her, Wittgenstein, gin.
(Maybe they, relations, had existed in the past at some point. Certainly, playing three sides, non diplomatically, in the Cold War, had long been surreptitiously going on behind the scenes.)
Coincidental that that was around the time of the Nixon Shock? The dumb money in the room.
Term search: poker, poke her, Wittgenstein, gin.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
WELCOME TO WW IV OR V
Most people would say III, but I count IV, or even V.
(I say the Seven Years War, or ' French and Indian War ', was the first real WW I.
But for those who follow Bobbitt and others, and call the entire 20th Century, WW I, WW II, and then Cold War, as one Long War, then they are at 'WW III' (what I call IV), but only if they Count the Seven Years War as ' WW I ', as I do.
Otherwise, they are only at II....now.
Whatever..... )
By my assessment, it, IV, has actually been going on for a couple of years now,
but Americans, and most others, do not know this.
Asia, not just Middle East, or Eastern Europe, is a dry tinder box.
Even Gibraltar! BBC News Spain versus UK.
Looking, bigger picture, for just a moment, one could even speculate that the actual WW I was not The Seven Years War after all,
but the struggles against the Mongols (first with China, really more a civilizational civil war, like our 2 World Wars and Cold War), with both the Orthodox, and Muslim worlds, and the ultimate conquest of Russia (Eastern Europe) (and parts of Central Asia, and India) by the Golden Horde.
(I say the Seven Years War, or ' French and Indian War ', was the first real WW I.
But for those who follow Bobbitt and others, and call the entire 20th Century, WW I, WW II, and then Cold War, as one Long War, then they are at 'WW III' (what I call IV), but only if they Count the Seven Years War as ' WW I ', as I do.
Otherwise, they are only at II....now.
Whatever..... )
By my assessment, it, IV, has actually been going on for a couple of years now,
but Americans, and most others, do not know this.
Asia, not just Middle East, or Eastern Europe, is a dry tinder box.
Even Gibraltar! BBC News Spain versus UK.
Looking, bigger picture, for just a moment, one could even speculate that the actual WW I was not The Seven Years War after all,
but the struggles against the Mongols (first with China, really more a civilizational civil war, like our 2 World Wars and Cold War), with both the Orthodox, and Muslim worlds, and the ultimate conquest of Russia (Eastern Europe) (and parts of Central Asia, and India) by the Golden Horde.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
BBC EU UNION NEEDS TO BE MORE LIKE THE US
Lots of luck with that.
"We need a real European state with all the building blocks that the United States put in place two hundred years ago. We need a true European government, a true European democracy, and a real European budget."
Our system is more a ' disunited states ' with a pseudo central government overlay, which does not, and has never, worked very well for its average citizens.
It shows how benighted Europeans are, that they should hold this so called system up for emulation.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
RE TAUP FARDY
A certain girl in Berlin,
also at times a little meanie,
seeing this topic,
might get a good guffaw!
also at times a little meanie,
seeing this topic,
might get a good guffaw!
re Top Forty song
Someone, it seems, perhaps through 'the BFF' intermediary,
has partially pirated my little dittie caricaturing and mocking the top forty.
Perhaps it's just one of those little coincidences, (but I had heard about it before it happened).
Although, here, it's certainly "not about the money money money" for such a sweet innocent little lyrical grab,
a sort of trick or treat hold up, so to speak,
some little varmint might at least have said " thank you ",
after being such little meanies in the first place.
This is the cleaned up version of it, from many months ago:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-grammies-and-top-40-so-what-money.html
I will admit that it was not all that bad, as a lyric.
has partially pirated my little dittie caricaturing and mocking the top forty.
Perhaps it's just one of those little coincidences, (but I had heard about it before it happened).
Although, here, it's certainly "not about the money money money" for such a sweet innocent little lyrical grab,
a sort of trick or treat hold up, so to speak,
some little varmint might at least have said " thank you ",
after being such little meanies in the first place.
This is the cleaned up version of it, from many months ago:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-grammies-and-top-40-so-what-money.html
I will admit that it was not all that bad, as a lyric.
RE COCA COLA TARGETED BY CHINA BBC ON BEING CHINAFIED
This is really a private matter between these two market capitalist entities.
Nothing really political here, just the normal process of more or less free international markets among private players and occasional dirty tricks by governments acting as private players. Just call it ' team play '.
No need for benighted investors, or God forbid, citizens, to have a care.
Is China a so called ' market state ', or is that something else, yet again?
Any sovereignty or constitutional or military issues here?
Not to worry.
Call in Professor Counselor Bobbitt. He can perhaps help us with being on the verge of a new constitutional order,
since we are sort of, figuratively, on the verge of China, in many ways, already; just not quite Chinafied enough quite yet.
Perhaps China might be made our fifty-first state (?), as we seem to like large numbers of them, historically, anyway,
to help us maintain separations of powers at all levels.
Would that many new voters (billion) sway an election?
Many big political and economic decisions, and actions, are taken routinely by American politicians, based on influence of, and from, foreign governments and NGOs, as well as American private entities and individuals. (Think eg NAFTA AND WTO, Nixon Shock, trade and commerce history chronicled in Trading Places, etc. for example.)
No one here voted for them (foreign political leaders, big foreign lobbyist interests), but sovereignty was given up in this way,
just as surely as it was in the ways discussed in Sovereignty At Bay regarding multinationals and their foreign direct investment history.
Nothing really political here, just the normal process of more or less free international markets among private players and occasional dirty tricks by governments acting as private players. Just call it ' team play '.
No need for benighted investors, or God forbid, citizens, to have a care.
Is China a so called ' market state ', or is that something else, yet again?
Any sovereignty or constitutional or military issues here?
Not to worry.
Call in Professor Counselor Bobbitt. He can perhaps help us with being on the verge of a new constitutional order,
since we are sort of, figuratively, on the verge of China, in many ways, already; just not quite Chinafied enough quite yet.
Perhaps China might be made our fifty-first state (?), as we seem to like large numbers of them, historically, anyway,
to help us maintain separations of powers at all levels.
Would that many new voters (billion) sway an election?
Many big political and economic decisions, and actions, are taken routinely by American politicians, based on influence of, and from, foreign governments and NGOs, as well as American private entities and individuals. (Think eg NAFTA AND WTO, Nixon Shock, trade and commerce history chronicled in Trading Places, etc. for example.)
No one here voted for them (foreign political leaders, big foreign lobbyist interests), but sovereignty was given up in this way,
just as surely as it was in the ways discussed in Sovereignty At Bay regarding multinationals and their foreign direct investment history.
Monday, November 5, 2012
CHINA FILES A WTO COMPLAINT AGAINST EUROPE RE SUBSIDIES
So unfair to defend or subsidize one's industries or peoples. Shame on those Europeans.
Remember that it was Clinton who drove that one (WTO) through, on the tail of NAFTA,
A REPUBLICAN INITIATIVE, BUT HE WAS THOROUGHLY ON BOARD.
MY WIFE SAYS THINGS LIKE 'HE ONLY DID IT TO TRY TO GET RE ELECTED',
AS IF THAT WERE SOMEHOW A VALID AND COMPLETE EXCUSE.
Remember that it was Clinton who drove that one (WTO) through, on the tail of NAFTA,
A REPUBLICAN INITIATIVE, BUT HE WAS THOROUGHLY ON BOARD.
MY WIFE SAYS THINGS LIKE 'HE ONLY DID IT TO TRY TO GET RE ELECTED',
AS IF THAT WERE SOMEHOW A VALID AND COMPLETE EXCUSE.
Friday, November 2, 2012
TERMS SEARCH
soft power, Steingart, etc.
See eg: http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/11/re-bbc-china-buys-stake-in-heathrow.html
See eg: http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/11/re-bbc-china-buys-stake-in-heathrow.html
RE BBC OKINAWA
I say just clear the Americans from Okinawa and rely from here on out on:
Term search: Mary Poppins
Thursday, November 1, 2012
RE BBC CHINA BUYS STAKE IN HEATHROW AIRPORT
This is just a tiny example, of what one now often sees, with relatively unbridled so called market capitalism.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
Monday, October 29, 2012
SHORT SIGHTED ASIA INDIA SUCKING UP
TYPICAL NOW OF ANGLOPHONE LAISSEZ FAIRE NATIONS THE WORLD OVER.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20114032
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20114032
Saturday, October 27, 2012
RE BBC CHINESE PISSED OVER NYT SCANDAL RAG SELL THOSE NEWSPAPERS TO BOZOS
Who can blame them, shameless globalist panders west, versus globalist authoritarians east.
BBC DUKING IT OUT, IN BETWEEN, maybe something there to observe, re the so called global press?
In the words of Thurow, they, all three, each need to go head to head.
BBC DUKING IT OUT, IN BETWEEN, maybe something there to observe, re the so called global press?
In the words of Thurow, they, all three, each need to go head to head.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
POIGNANT AN OLD MORGAN STANLEY VETERAN NO WHERE REALLY TO TURN NOW
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2012/10/25/why-i-bailed-on-gold?ref=hp
I can well understand the feeling, and the longish background, going back into the 60s really.
Conservative professionals, everywhere, losing their ass now.
No good investment decisions, or nowadays really talking about trades, nor more buy and holds, left, really, to be made.
Term search: cashing in their chips
I can well understand the feeling, and the longish background, going back into the 60s really.
Conservative professionals, everywhere, losing their ass now.
No good investment decisions, or nowadays really talking about trades, nor more buy and holds, left, really, to be made.
Term search: cashing in their chips
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
re the larger disaster looming behind the financial one
Americans have been lead to believe that it has been mainly a financial debacle that has been under way.
Grounds for this are that the so called US economy (nothing like this really exists anymore) has become overly financialized.
That tells only the part of the story.
How did the what- it- used- to-be economy get over financialized in the first place?
Grounds for this are that the so called US economy (nothing like this really exists anymore) has become overly financialized.
That tells only the part of the story.
How did the what- it- used- to-be economy get over financialized in the first place?
Sunday, October 21, 2012
AN INTERESTING ESSAY BY RANDALL COLLINS
I HAVE ONLY STARTED TO READ IT:
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"
RE EAST CHINA SEA TENSIONS CHINA JAPAN
Hopefully this will continue an ' uncoupling ' process, re a coupling that has been going on now for many decades.
Term search: playing three sides, Nixon shock, Mary Poppins, weasel, etc.
Term search: playing three sides, Nixon shock, Mary Poppins, weasel, etc.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
term search Thurston Howell Boca etc
Re Thurston Howell Romney, I had said it all back in 06,
and in Boca too!
There are ' property rights ',
and then there are big big big property rights.
and in Boca too!
There are ' property rights ',
and then there are big big big property rights.
many viewers like this one
Who knows why.
It shows a very old cello belly, off, and the bottom block area of the belly, where prior bottom block outlines, and recent and older repairs of cracks, including plugs or patches or whatever they are called, share the photo view.
Some of these were quite old, some looked much more recent, throughout the body.
It shows a very old cello belly, off, and the bottom block area of the belly, where prior bottom block outlines, and recent and older repairs of cracks, including plugs or patches or whatever they are called, share the photo view.
Some of these were quite old, some looked much more recent, throughout the body.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
RE KEVIN PHILLIPS BAD MONEY
"THE U.S. POLITICAL SYSTEM IS NOT BROKEN....BUT BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE CALCIFIED...."
He really will not tackle deeper issues, recent or older, here; he sees all as hunky dory if only the parties would get it together.
He fails to see, or better, refuses to discuss, that always, since the beginning really, say 1776 and before, structural problems have enabled party problems to be blamed, rather than structural ones.
He takes a broad historical perspective. Goes way back into history, everywhere, back to Rome, etc.
Reminds one of Niall's gyrations.
He talks, every few pages or so, about things he claims neither party's politicians will talk about..........................and points at other recent doleful financial and geopolitical trends the average American can know little about................
Yet, he mentions the Civil War, a hello long standing structural problem here, only once, p 124, for a tangential non point about oil.
Why have politcal parties calcified?
When did that start? (He wants to imply it is somehow a recent development, in an otherwise virtuous political history.)
Why?
Take a guess.
He does talk about structural problems in ch 6 somewhat, but backs away from calling it other than party schlerosis.
At p 156, he sets out his theory from 40 years ago, in a sentence, if subsequent history does not correspond, he calls it a schlerosis of the party system, not the political system structure itself.
He really will not tackle deeper issues, recent or older, here; he sees all as hunky dory if only the parties would get it together.
He fails to see, or better, refuses to discuss, that always, since the beginning really, say 1776 and before, structural problems have enabled party problems to be blamed, rather than structural ones.
He takes a broad historical perspective. Goes way back into history, everywhere, back to Rome, etc.
Reminds one of Niall's gyrations.
He talks, every few pages or so, about things he claims neither party's politicians will talk about..........................and points at other recent doleful financial and geopolitical trends the average American can know little about................
Yet, he mentions the Civil War, a hello long standing structural problem here, only once, p 124, for a tangential non point about oil.
Why have politcal parties calcified?
When did that start? (He wants to imply it is somehow a recent development, in an otherwise virtuous political history.)
Why?
Take a guess.
He does talk about structural problems in ch 6 somewhat, but backs away from calling it other than party schlerosis.
At p 156, he sets out his theory from 40 years ago, in a sentence, if subsequent history does not correspond, he calls it a schlerosis of the party system, not the political system structure itself.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
RE THE MARKET CALITALIST WORLD OF EDUCATION AND EXPERTISE SHARING
"....Today's universities have an insatiable appetite for cash, and thereby have to cater, in dozens of ways, to those who can provide it. Quite a few, including my own alma mater Harvard, have turned their endowments into hedge funds and thus experienced both the pre-2007 boom and the disastrous 2008 crash. (To be fair, Harvard's endowment just reported a flat year, indicating that its new manager, Janet Mendillo, has in fact adopted much more conservative strategies.) Dr. Hubbard's career is another example of how they function as one side of a triangle that also includes the financial services sector and government...." David Kaiser
I would add that, re our higher educational system, we have systematically given away what Randall Collins calls cultural capital to underdeveloped countries whose goal is to pull abreast and then overtake us.
Our laissez faire higher educational system, though an enormous market capitalist bubble for us, has frankly been of less benefit to Americans than to foreigners in recent decades.
In this sense it has paralleled our market capitalist corporate commercial and industrial sectors closely,
and, once again, according to analogous principles as Collins has pointed out.
The internet has facilitated this trend, a technology which, once again, we also pioneered, then offered to them as well.
Never, in the history of human conflict,
has so much been given away,
by so few,
to so many,
for so little,
so rapidly. Paraphrasing Churchill.
I should point out, parenthetically, that my inferences from some of Collins' views would not be shared by him, based on some of his views, eg that 'we are all one, under the skin', things like that.....
although this seems to me inconsistent with his theory of change as based on conflict, it is what it is apparently, for him.
I would add that, re our higher educational system, we have systematically given away what Randall Collins calls cultural capital to underdeveloped countries whose goal is to pull abreast and then overtake us.
Our laissez faire higher educational system, though an enormous market capitalist bubble for us, has frankly been of less benefit to Americans than to foreigners in recent decades.
In this sense it has paralleled our market capitalist corporate commercial and industrial sectors closely,
and, once again, according to analogous principles as Collins has pointed out.
The internet has facilitated this trend, a technology which, once again, we also pioneered, then offered to them as well.
Never, in the history of human conflict,
has so much been given away,
by so few,
to so many,
for so little,
so rapidly. Paraphrasing Churchill.
I should point out, parenthetically, that my inferences from some of Collins' views would not be shared by him, based on some of his views, eg that 'we are all one, under the skin', things like that.....
although this seems to me inconsistent with his theory of change as based on conflict, it is what it is apparently, for him.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
COMPETITIVENESS ALWAYS WAS A MISNOMER FOR ME
Nationalism is really what it should have been about.
'Competitiveness' terminology begs the whole question,
and gives the discussion into the hands of economists,
who have monopolized what economic rivalry is supposed to be about, including the bouger of protectionism
and to ignorant politicians like Gore, who, for example, waved a copy of Smoot Hawley in a debate over NAFTA, as if that won the intellectual day for NAFTA.
'Competitiveness' terminology begs the whole question,
and gives the discussion into the hands of economists,
who have monopolized what economic rivalry is supposed to be about, including the bouger of protectionism
and to ignorant politicians like Gore, who, for example, waved a copy of Smoot Hawley in a debate over NAFTA, as if that won the intellectual day for NAFTA.
RE RULES FOR CRAFTSMANSHIP DAVID BROOKS
No one person, or even small group of persons could, possibly, 'fix' our political system,
which needs drastic structural overhaul and consolidation, not ever more, decades in, decades out, presidential politics drivel.
And please don't bring up something like EJ Dionne's 'vital center', the kind of bipartisan mutual myopia that kept us in this downward spiral since WW II at least, as a fix in Brooks' terms.
The bipartisan 'vital center', after WWII, is really what got us here.
which needs drastic structural overhaul and consolidation, not ever more, decades in, decades out, presidential politics drivel.
And please don't bring up something like EJ Dionne's 'vital center', the kind of bipartisan mutual myopia that kept us in this downward spiral since WW II at least, as a fix in Brooks' terms.
The bipartisan 'vital center', after WWII, is really what got us here.
Friday, October 12, 2012
bob tube comment on Krugman's editorial
His is better than Krugman:
- Bob Tube
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Dr Krugman, here's what you got wrong: Republicans are all FOR economic stimulus and huge amounts of deficit spending -- as long as the President is a Republican. You need look no further than the Bush II Administration for proof --reckless tax cuts, unfunded Medicare Part D, Bridge to Nowhere, two wars on our children's credit cards. Then, when a Democrat became president, Republicans suddenly came to Jesus (in more ways than one) and wanted to cut spending and reduce the deficit, even if it would worsen the economic suffering of Americans. If Romney wins, be assured the first thing Republicans will do is have yet another come-to-Jesus moment when they decide we must stimulate the economy NOW and cut deficits later (when a Democrat is president.) Get it? Republicans in power: reckless spending is good; Democrats in power: sound the deficit alarms and cut spending
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NOTE PANETTA'S CONCERNS, BY NATION.
NOT SO MANY MUSLIMS IN THE GROUP.
THIS IS THE KIND OF THING BOBBITT HAD HINTED AT IN THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES.
MUSLIM THREATS ARE REAL,
BUT WHO HAS MORE TO GAIN, OR LOSE, REALLY,
AMONG CIVILIZATIONS, OR GREAT POWERS,
THE ONLY THINGS THAT COUNT, REALLY?
THIS IS THE KIND OF THING BOBBITT HAD HINTED AT IN THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES.
MUSLIM THREATS ARE REAL,
BUT WHO HAS MORE TO GAIN, OR LOSE, REALLY,
AMONG CIVILIZATIONS, OR GREAT POWERS,
THE ONLY THINGS THAT COUNT, REALLY?
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