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"Civilization is entirely the product of phonetic literacy. As it dissolves with the electronic revolution, we rediscover a tribal integral awareness that manifests itself in a complete shift in our sensory lives....This new electronic environment itself constitutes an inner trip, collectively, without benefit of drugs. The impulse to use hallucinogens is a kind of empathy with the electronic environment." - Marshall McLuhan
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“Anyone who works creatively feels discomfort around the myth of economic progress as the route to human self-realisation, because emphatically, that is not where it happens for us.”

—Jeanette Winterson
on what Art means to us in times of crisis - Times Online

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“‘That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus,’ said James F. Reda, founder and managing director of James F. Reda & Associates, a compensation consulting firm.”

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NYTimes

He’s right, it’s not… But it is if you’re on welfare.

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Hey James, I have three words for ya. Go. Fuck. Yourself.

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hey, James? guess what? you think $500,000 is too low? THEN YOU DON’T TAKE THE MOTHERFUCKING TARP MONEY.

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Is that before or after taxes :-)

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Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed. Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, 1957. via Means Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed. Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, 1957. via Means

Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.

Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, 1957.

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“It’s psychopathic to spend a million redoing your office when the folks outside it are losing jobs, homes, pensions and savings.”

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Maureen Dowd

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“These bankers got away with murder, and it’s obscene that close to nothing is being asked of financial institutions. I get incensed at the thought that a bank that’s getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money is out there buying fancy new airplanes.”

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Senator Carl Levin

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Home Depot Founder Declares Class War »

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I tend not to post about politics, for many reasons, but these are exciting times for management at retailers nationwide as the political putsch begins; from the WSJ:

“And hear the lamentations of the billionaires. “This is the demise of a civilization,” moaned Bernie Marcus, cofounder and former CEO of The Home Depot, during an Oct. 17 conference call about card check. “This is how a civilization disappears. I’m sitting here as an elder statesman, and I’m watching this happen, and I don’t believe it.”

Mr. Marcus sketched out the doomsday scenario for his listeners, with unions going after what he called the “low hanging fruit” and proceeding to organize workers in industry after industry. He had taken it upon himself to notify the nation’s CEOs of the danger, but they were not yet grabbing their guns. “This is as important as anything that’s ever happened to these companies. And they’re not reacting, and they’re not fighting. The old time fighters are gone.”

But in the class war, as in the real deal, there are always ways of motivating the yellow. “If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys,” Mr. Marcus said, apparently referring to Republican senators facing tough re-election fights, then those retailers “should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs.”“

When the revolution comes, have fun with the rioting and please forward my mail.

“Corporations are now taking out life insurance policies on their low-income employees without the employee’s knowledge or consent. These policies are called Corporate-Owned Life Insurance (COLI). But the insurance industry calls them “dead janitor’s or dead peasant’s insurance.”

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The Left Coaster: Purchasing The Plantation

Sick thought: that Wal-Mart could’ve had COLI insurance on their trampled employee.

Some days I miss those innocent days when I only used the internet for college football smack talk and porn…

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And the rich keep right on being rich. »

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Private schools across New York City say they are thriving this fall, with record numbers of applicants and no significant decline in donations. Yet almost daily, even brand-name schools are finding that they have to reassure jittery parents about shrinking endowments and dispel rumors that requests for financial aid are pouring in, and that economically squeezed families are pulling their children out and enrolling them in public schools.

Part of me wishes they’d all go bankrupt.  The schools, that is.

But, think of the children.

The rich children.

Whatever.

Private Schools Thrive In Downturn - NY Times

Normally I’d ad some comment about class wars and the growing inequality between the very, very, very (very) rich in the US and the rest of us.  But I’m still chuckling like an erudite 12-year-old at the phrase “shrinking endowments.”

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Thanks BBC for giving it to us softly and succinctly.