"Volatility as Social Flaring"

[Carl Remick]

>        Finally, the reason that I made my ironic remark was precisely
>that Doug is such an admirer of raw data in numerical form.  If he
>said that none of it mattered, that what matters is the essence
>of exploitative relations ...
>Barkley Rosser

My position exactly, Barkley; all that matters *is* the essence
>of exploitative relations.  Frankly, my contempt for numbers couldn't be 
>greater. IMHO, the internal logic of capitalism is so strong that one will 
>never, ultimately, defeat capitalists by outarguing them with data -- 
>that's a mug's game.

For the same reason, I don't really give a shit whether CEOs earn 575 times 
or 5750 times what the average worker makes.  They earn way too goddamned 
much.  Period.  That should be perfectly self-evident.  Focusing on the 
exactitude of data that relate to social outrages becomes, very quickly, 
less an exercise in illumination than a silly effort to learn how many holes 
it takes to fill the Albert Hall.  Idle dweebishness.

Carl
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