[lbo-talk] observation

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Tue Oct 26 14:00:40 PDT 2004


That's not strange. I notice that I am starting to talk almost entirely in cliches; I ascribe this to the corp. environment as well.

Joanna

snit snat wrote:


>
> nursing hangover and typing at the list and other correspondents and
> i'm noticing the strangest thing. i'm naturally using a more diverse
> vocabulary, words like desultory, cavil, etc. are flowing with a
> naturalness that i've had to suppress in corporate world. i'm NOT
> saying it's superior to write using these words. i'm just noting a
> kind of psychological liberation--a kind of clarity to my
> thoughts--that has been squashed and I hadn't even known it.
>
> or, it's just the cheap wine i drank last night. heh.
>
>
> k
>
> ps. sorry to flagrantly overpost abusing the list
>
> pps. ravi -- no intention of starting flame war. just misunderstood
> you and was, actually, hoping i was giving you a platform to expand
> thoughts on the topic! i think it'd be way cool to have debate about
> this b/c one of the thing i _am_ interested in is how alternative
> economic practices might be an important adjunct to political
> practice. y'need both; not either/or. this became really clear to me
> reading Marx on the Paris Commune.
>
> "We live under the Confederacy.
> We're a podunk bunch of swaggering
> pious hicks."
>
> --Bruce Sterling
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