tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post697426265545291396..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: What would Jesus say about the warmongers?Roger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-33618516103240964702008-04-01T13:57:00.000+02:002008-04-01T13:57:00.000+02:00What's driven me wild from the start is precisely ...What's driven me wild <A HREF="http://www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20030227.html#2003-03-19" REL="nofollow">from the start</A> is precisely the bland assuredness of their megalomania. Our pundits and politicians are stuck in some sort of temporal loop: every morning they wake up, smell the coffee, and go to sleep again. And every time they cycle, we're deeper in a hole. How blatant does our failure have to get before it becomes perceptible? At this point it's too late to save much but I'm still morbidly curious.Ray Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15998321016748928251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-88383199069822387742008-03-24T18:56:00.000+01:002008-03-24T18:56:00.000+01:00But I, too...sitting in my comfortable office (wel...But I, too...sitting in my comfortable office (well...cubicle, actually) in sunny California wasting the taxpayers' dollars reading Limited, Inc :), am a REVOLUTIONARY, don't you know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-14711344257524063062008-03-24T16:47:00.000+01:002008-03-24T16:47:00.000+01:00Brian, I'm simply suspicious of analysis that fits...Brian, I'm simply suspicious of analysis that fits a little too closely to one's fantasy of one's self. That was, after all, the keynote at the beginning of the war - all the proxy warriors were sold on the war because they could feel that their warrior-ness was about to be affirmed for them. Conveniently, it did require them to actually go to war or sacrifice a single hour of sleep, a single donut, a single gallon of gasoline for this to happen. <BR/>Maybe that experience has made me too cynical!Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-70693934034731280172008-03-24T16:37:00.000+01:002008-03-24T16:37:00.000+01:00I'm properly chastened, roger. It's easy to fall ...I'm properly chastened, roger. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our Owners have anything to fear from us. I have certainly did nothing in my cossetted life. Ah well...as the economy collapses, whatta ya do? <BR/><BR/>Re: Your last comment-Is sending into the bank your keys now a revolutionary act? You read some of the press, it seems so. <BR/><BR/>Heck, some of my favorite lefty sites are verging on "they all deserve it) (Stop Me While I vote again) because the folks were not properky living in crumbling communal apartments, I guess).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-26361901020246299662008-03-24T08:20:00.000+01:002008-03-24T08:20:00.000+01:00The Nazi takeover was indeed a precarious thing - ...The Nazi takeover was indeed a precarious thing - right up until the time it was accomplished. The camps came <I>after</I> that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-40424950544664738392008-03-24T04:37:00.000+01:002008-03-24T04:37:00.000+01:00Mr. Lawrence, umm, I'm surprised you'd say that. C...Mr. Lawrence, umm, I'm surprised you'd say that. Communist and union gangs fought Nazis in the back streets of Berlin from 1930 to 1933 - the Nazi takeover of power was a precarious thing. There was an opposition to the Nazis willing to use force, and a mere ten years before, the threat of the general strike was serious. Let's see, ten years ago, in 1998, was there even the remotest possibility of a general strike in the U.S.? We are pretty far from a period of time in which labor poses a big organized threat to management - except, of course, when they don't pay the credit card bills.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-46470776399693561242008-03-24T03:32:00.000+01:002008-03-24T03:32:00.000+01:00So who's trying to form a plural with an apostroph...So who's trying to form a plural with an apostrophe, then?<BR/><BR/>More seriously, it is not in fact the case that "Concentrations camps are thrown up when a power system really seems threatened by an opposition willing to sacrifice quite a bit". The first Nazi ones were set up very early, when there was no <I>actual</I> threat, whatever the public perception after the Reichstag fire may have been (they well have been set up before that - I'm not sure).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-35714358485923523882008-03-23T21:47:00.000+01:002008-03-23T21:47:00.000+01:00Ah, Brian, I have heard the concentration camp sto...Ah, Brian, I have heard the concentration camp stories for decades. I used to think it was paranoia, but now I think it is a sublime form of self flattery - as if there was a powerful opposition there that needs to be put into concentration camps. Opposition? In America? We are talking a high sacrifice level when someone goes without tv for a day. As the system of drugged collaboration (the drugs being all around us - convenience stores, the highway system, gas) has become ever more pervasive, ever more invisible, academia and certain leftists discovered "resistance", which is a honorable way of collaborating but secretly irritating the perpetual enemy of mankind by ... by theorizing him. What need does the government have to throw me in a concentration camp, when my most dangerous act is fucking blogging? I'm in the camp already. <BR/><BR/>The most "resistant" and unexpected act of our time has not been directed at the Iraq war - it has been jingle mail, private individuals acting just like businesses do to businesses. Now, there's resistance for ya!<BR/><BR/>Concentrations camps are thrown up when a power system really seems threatened by an opposition willing to sacrifice quite a bit. When that opposition emerges in these here States, wake me up! I want to take some pictures.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-91848777731931470272008-03-23T20:57:00.000+01:002008-03-23T20:57:00.000+01:00Ah just wait, roger...another convenient "terroris...Ah just wait, roger...another convenient "terrorist" act round, say October, and the tales (and tails) will be a wagging. I honestly beleive that could happen-the Neocon elite is so committed to its vision that they would have no problem doing dirty tricks. Besides, they gotta USE the concentration camps built by Haliburton, anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-9893560928149741382008-03-23T20:38:00.000+01:002008-03-23T20:38:00.000+01:00One of the side effects of the Iraq insurgency is ...One of the side effects of the Iraq insurgency is that it put the kebosh on the vague plans the Bush/Cheney had for regime change in Iran, however they spelled that out. In 2004, I still expected Bush to at least attempt some bombing, but I don't think that is going to happen now - the economic downturn, and the resistance of the military is simply too great, in my opinion. Plus, the American people didn't respond to the surge of anti-Iranian propaganda last spring and summer as expected. They didn't wag their tails.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-15661078773843916642008-03-23T17:19:00.000+01:002008-03-23T17:19:00.000+01:00Wow, roger. Arthur Silber would be proud of this ...Wow, roger. Arthur Silber would be proud of this Magnum Opus.<BR/><BR/>I keep thinking this was our Syracuse. Being a doomsayer, I honestly think our elites CANNOT learn from this lesson. The Military-Industrial Machine is what we are, maybe even all we are in a real sense. I don't think electing Ralph Nader and a 100% Congress of Peace and Freedom Party or Libertarians would change the fundamentals. <BR/><BR/>(Did you mean that the current injvasion of Iraq is stopping an invasion of IraN, though?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com