Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Very Definition of a Nightmare
Matt Simmons is an investment banker and analyst who works in the oil industry and authored Twilight in The Desert, a book about the onset of Peak Oil. If he can be believed, and I have no idea if he can, the oil leak we are all focused on is likely a diversion from a far bigger leak some miles away. Pardon the wordplay, but we need to get to the bottom of this now.
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I wonder if I'm going to get kicked off of naked capitalism for trolling...
Tchernoby SHOULD have stuck into our narcissistic little minds, eaten up by hubris, that WE are indeed capable of taking the Good Ship Earth out WITH us.
A sobering perspective, don't you think ?
After spending generations shitting on God now, and thrusting out those pectorals (rouler les mécaniques in French), all of a sudden we are whimpering "but we CAN'T be God, WE can't be capable of this monstruosity, we are just... poor little chimps who have lost our way"...
Pathetic.
We shouldn't even have the GALL to succomb to despair, Edwardo. There's too much work to do.
Trouble is... WHAT work to do ?
We don't have a clue, even...
A little less frenetic activism on our parts several generations ago would have been preferable.
And all that buying and selling, and sticking a price tag on everything ??
Snort.
Deb, I like the idea that we shouldn't have the gall to succumb to despair. Despair is, or ought to be, earned in the aftermath of us doing our best as opposed to achieving our wretched state by doing something far closer to our worst.
I'm all for work! ;-)
Shall we say... i am for... intelligent work that permits human beings to experience dignity, meaning, and pleasure in their existence without usurping the role of totally organizing human existence.
NOT mindless windmilling around, and shoving people here and there, giving them bits and pieces of a task to do along with thousands of others in a UNIFORM WAY, for example, to convey the impression that... work is being done, because work MUST be done...EXCLUSIVELY for profit.
I am for.. putting meat and potatoes on the table...gracefully.
I am rather consistent on this subject.
Work is like money.
It should be a TOOL that man controls for his own benefit, NOT a tool that controls HIM, and contributes to his own degradation.
By the way... I do NOT think there is anything marxist about the above comments...
Re: "for his own benefit..."
Not Marxist at all. And indeed that is the crux of your issue. ;-)
Be well
Last time I checked... profit and benefit were not synonyms...
Hey, Edwardo, I have a comment on your link...
You know, I have a BOY at home, and a GIRL.
I think I probably raised them in a rather sexist manner, but... my son really wasn't into playing with dolls, even though we gave them to him...
Both of my kids play musical instruments too.
I noticed that... my son had a little tendancy towards... "bacler". That means....doing things a little too FAST and making sloppy mistakes...
My daughter, now... she is SLOW (like her mother...).
She does things meticulously, but when she finishes them... the FIRST TIME she is right, and she doesn't have to go back and do them over again...
I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to say that this is a gender issue, but... I DID notice a while back that "the system" seems to have little patience or tolerance for... slow people who do things right the first time.
I bet that BP regrets that right now...
Sounds like BP could have used more higher level management interested in doing things... slowly and methodically....
I also heard (but this is just rumor...) that over here in Euroland, BP sells its equipment with safety features that Uncle Sam was not interested in...
Interesting, huh ?
Have YOU heard this before ?
Interesting information about BP and what they sell in Europe that they are alleged to not sell in the U.S.
As for your gender behavior assertion/observation, well, if one were to give way to generalization, one might observe that it is likely the case that men are more "gung ho" than women, more prone to rush in where (female) angels fear to tread. Lamentably, at this point in human history, that (hardwired?) tendency may be exacting a higher price than the collective can afford to pay.
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