Tom, you wouldn't believe the missed key strokes that led me to your post about the NC textile workers. Havn't even been to Eudora lately and was trying to open a stock thing.(what can I say, I'm obsessive/compulsive, I guess). I think I could help if anything comes up with Michael and it hasn't been dealt with yet. In any case I shall call your friend and introduce myself.
My friends, I have been wading in the mainstream, and it is toxic, and incredibly stupid. Thinking of offering my services as an investor message board manager. Tribal Echo Net. Got the domain, now just need to decide what I can do with it.(if anything). Between hanging out on these messsage boards and working with the professional class, I'm really gaining confidence in my abilities to survive in the real world.
And check this out. I'm accumulating capital! Still seems like a video game though. Don't tsk. This is very important to my recovery(unfortunately) and shedding the daddy demon. (and probably wise at my age)
Kelley, the young woman I spoke of just got back from Ireland and I gave her a print out of your definitions of the various schools of feminism. I think she was very surprised by the cutting edge, well wrought content. She is after all surrounded by the purveyors of stereotype-hype. She loved it.
We talk movies a lot now and I believe she is very impressed with me. I'm very cool now. Thanks. I think I have helped nudge her in a good direction she was contemplating from the wastelands. Should bring her some pubs I guess. Could be burned by the New McCarthyism though.
Hey. In relation to a stock that was heading up, one participant in a Yahoo Investors Club(unlike the message boards, moderated) was musing about unlooked for wealth or something, and I used it as a rare opportunity to say something like, "Hey, if your making less than say, $150,000 a year, Capitalism owes you." Well, you wouldn't believe the ruckus. Including several postings of a long poem about the founding fathers dying for their country(?). After several personal attacks I finally responded with something like-unrestrained Capitalism tends to go too far and the founding fathers were in fact revolting against British Capitalism run amuck, and they should go and read what the heads of most of the leaders of most of the Christian churchs were saying about today's neo-liberal Capitalism.(the internet is very Christion). And they kicked me out! Soon, after more personal attacks which broke the rules of the club, as I had not.
The part of Tom's posting of the NC union effort that jumped at me was about the nuanced approach to union non-supporters. And I say, marxism, my ass. If you really want to change things you gotta treat these folks with kidd gloves. You gotta fight nuance with nuance. The big challange is getting them to think of Capitalism as a thing seperate from God, Country, Family guilt, and gravity. Now that I'm really mingling with the masses I realize that it's much worse than I thought The Right has wormed it's way into the very heart of the culture, practically unchallenged. It's a zombie jamborree out there. Only marketing can save us now.
smooches to all, this is Paula Marie Laflamme, reporting from the rube gallery.
ps. I'm encouraging Megan(the young woman I work with) to subscribe to lbo, told her it was a good place to learn of many things. She'll be at Univ. of Georgia.