"Volatility as Social Flaring"

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 18 16:29:11 PST 2001



> 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.

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