[lbo-talk] New Year's Wish

[Chris Doss]

Happy New Year to one and all. I spent mine boozing it up with my 
ex-girlfriend Olya, her wonderful little boy Vanya and some friends of hers 
from Belarus in Posmoskovye, trundling through the snow, eating bliny, 
drinking huge quantities of vodka, watching the New Year's programs on TV 
and Putin's New Year address (I think one reason I like him so much is how 
honest he comes across on them -- "things are looking up, but we have many 
unsolved problems and we have to work hard to solve them. S Novym Godom!"), 
eating olivier salad and kalmary and singing Leningrad songs at the top of 
my lungs -- "Bez tebya pizdets!" The best NY I have ever had. fantastic.


>From: Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] New Year's Wish
>Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:27:55 -0800 (PST)
>
>Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
>I suppose that's my New Year's wish to all of you.
>Reject the darkness, the cynical, the depraved, the
>nihilistic. We'll be exposed to much of that in the
>coming year, and it won't be easy holding on to the
>better part of ourselves. But we can at least try,
>right?
>
>=====================================
>
>
>Yeah, I can dig that.  This is exactly the thing to
>do.
>
>Happy New Year to one and all.
>
>
>Lord, what a 21st century it's turning out to be.
>
>When I was a kid, there were two 21st century
>scenarios running around my brain.  They were both
>smooth as ice in a hockey rink and fun to live in.
>
>
>
>There was...
>
>
>Techno World
>
>
>You know this place; it's got a big, pinwheel space
>station in the sky you can visit whenever you want, a
>lunar base where stuff so cool's going on it defies
>description, robot butlers and flying cars all brought
>about by the decisive evolution of human intellect,
>morality and willingness to cooperate globally.  The
>soundtrack's electronica, the style of governence
>rational, warfare a fairy tale of ancient times told
>to restive children.
>
>
>and when I got a little older there was...
>
>
>Armani World
>
>Okay, it's like Techno World right?  Only the tech
>isn't quite so high (no flying cars or thinking mechs)
>the clothing is much, much more stylish and for some
>reason, everyone's got lots of time to spend in themed
>nightclubs.  Imagine one of the sets from the old
>James Bond film *Thunderball* and you get an idea of
>the decor and demeanor.  It's democratic, its
>cosmopolitan, its chic and its also post-conflict
>stage humanity.
>
>...
>
>
>But of course I didn't get either of these.  There is
>instead Richard Perle's crazy bastard imperialism
>world and machina corporatica world.  Not wholly good
>places these worlds.  Death and lies and wasted lives
>and mis-used tech and bad clothes and gritted teeth
>and starvation and long commutes and Michael Jackson
>and relentless worry and little time for fun.
>
>But, as they say, there's nothing for it.  These are
>the times we're given and we must make the most of our
>efforts with the time given to us.
>
>Besides, there's light too.  One small example,
>LBO-talk.
>
>
>
>DRM
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