RE THE ROLE OF UNCLE SAM BROOKS NYT DIONNE

Brooks touches a useful area here, but as usual blunders briefly around it, and fails characteristically to even join the issues in the discussion to include Democratic failures re nationalism. 

KISS NO DOUBLE JEOPARDY GOOD BYE

Or even triple or quadruple jeopardy, say.

Re Galactic: There are two types of people, those who say there are two types of people and those who don't

This is a writer who comments on DKs blog.  He has an entertaining dribble here:

"Living always in my head and not in my heart I have always tried to categorize people and figure out myself and others through anaylsis, like ethnic or racial background, or working class vs. academic or relgious roots or the psychoanaylsis trip (mother and father relationships, etc.). This is perhaps typically male and intellectual (another analysis unfortunately) Lastly I found astrology and even that is sick in a sense, like you can finally ignore race, etc. but then say to yourself, "typical pisces, etc." 

This all reminds me of the joke "There are two types of people, those who say there are two types of people and those who don't".

We can all use what we are and have become for the good or for the worse of society, for others or for our greed. This is a free choice. and we can blame our failure or our sins on a bad past or a bad horoscope ("the fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves horatio"). But we tend to group ourselves into black , white, female, rich, poor and make identity politics to increase our power against others. Start talking Soc. Security and you get old people up in arms, etc. Talk to me about minority, women's or gay rights and I will become more than likely dismissive as a white male until you hit some point where the rich are taking my job away and I see common cause with minorites or other oppressed. So we have to "walk a mile in the other's moccassins" to get the picture. It certainly helps to be around other people from other perspectives (have kids and a long suffering working wife, have gays, blacks, (and even a rich and harried boss), etc. at work or as neighbours) to feel for them and break down barriers. A multi-culti childhood and then such a marriage as I have lived through is great and living abroad. still if the heart is not open then it doesn't bring much but mental structures building up on each others more theory without any true understanding and "love of your neighbour"."

see DAVID KAISER'S CURRENT POST STRUGGLE

And especially Bob in NC's comment. 


Very insightful.

RE FACEBOOK

http://www.realecontv.com/videos/the-stock-market/social-media-accounting-fraud-and-robbing-customers.html

TERM SEARCH VARIOUS VARIATIONS ON FACEBOOK TERMS

RE DAVID BROOKS HOW CHANGE HAPPENS NYT

What a ridiculous laissez fairy tale.

YOU DON'T KNOW

"Do I love you because you're beautiful,
or,....,because I love you?" 
Cinderella track 11,

or 

"you don't know, that's what makes you beautiful?

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/05/you-dont-know.html

Term search: eg Venus Willendorf

JUST ANOTHER SUDDEN LITTLE STICKY WICKET

Italy and India, ocean routes issues, etc., may lurk below the surface here, perhaps?

RE SOCIAL SCIENCE RELIABILITY EG ECONOMICS SOCIOLOGY

Cf Gutting, nyt today:


Not reliable, really at all.

is paper money a commodity

Do you really want to go 'paperless', whatever that means,
in a world where the banks already owe you your unsecured deposits only in paper, and only as an unsecured claim?


What becomes of the claim when it is a purely virtual unsecured claim?

ITALIAN BANKS JUNK STATUS MERELY CONFIRMED BY PUPPETS

YOU DON'T KNOW

'That's what makes you gullible.'


http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/05/you-dont-know-thats-what-makes-you.html

RE really erratic entrepreneurs cf Morgan etc

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=4147236395245613308

re Game Over nyt today

Liberal democracies believe that these issues are best left to the wise hand of the global market, and to the steady hand of really radical, rail to rail, liberal democratic Smithian, help myself, help-the-world, so to speak, Maverick entrepreneurs.

Term search rail to rail, maverick executive, enter preener, etc. 

see David Kaiser's current post

I am going to give your ear a break

And not talk about it here.

weekly audience Russia heavy

United States 8 Russia 4 Germany 1

RE GAME OVER

FOR THE CLIMATE NYT

I like game over idiom use.

Why not game over nyt?

RE JAMIE DIMON MORGAN ETC

These places are literally packed tight with immature illiterate bozos doing things like this.

RE MYERS BRIGGS ETC

Anyone trying to use this schema, for anything at all, really should think again, 
study the background, and take stock of what this is based on, 
scientifically and otherwise,
what it can do perhaps,
and what it cannot do perhaps.

RE THE SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHIES

A must read.

THIS ONE DESERVES TO BE REPRISED

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/10/re-hoot-smalley-casanova-philosophers.html

YOU DON'T KNOW THAT'S WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL ALCIBIADES TO SOCRATES

The only non cynical, and, however, philosophical, 


interpretation I can think of, 


for this otherwise very pathetic 


modern marketing lyric conundrum,


is to put it into the mouth of, say,


Alcibiades, to Socrates:


"You don't know, that's what makes you beautiful."


Term search: beautiful ugly philosophers, etc. 

SMELLING THE COFFEE

http://www.realecontv.com/videos/china/china-reality-check.html

RE CHALMERS JOHNSON PAUL KRUGMAN AND CAPITALISM AND ECONOMICS THE DOOMSDAY DISCIPLINE

Looked again at Japan Who Governs, and Johnson's comments on Krugman's comments back in 93 re appointment of Tyson, and capitalism. 

Very interesting.

Of course, Johnson was preaching to this choir.

Economics really has been, but not by itself, the Doomsday Discipline for Western Civ.

SEE RANDALL COLLINS' BLOG AND HIS CURRENT POST ON MOBY DICK

RE TANKS JETS OR SCHOLARSHIPS FRIEDMAN NYT

None of the above would be the best for those over here.


Sorry.