[lbo-talk] art's objectivity (tangent on faulkner thread)

Tayssir John Gabbour tjg at pentaside.org
Sun Oct 1 12:13:27 PDT 2006


ylle521 at highstream.net wrote:
> And another thing, while I got a kick out of his UN speech, IMO Hugo
> Chavez is no prince, see: embrace of Ahmadinejad. Hmm, could be that
> Christian religious streak Hugo's got coming out, that makes it easier
> for him to overlook the fundamentalist oppressiveness of the Iranian
> govt as personified in this reactionary guy.

Maybe it's like corporations, where you praise your allies and demonize enemies, in the proportion they help/obstruct you from your goals? One CEO might privately tell his buddies, "Damn, Bob's corporate culture is dysfunctional." But nevertheless, when you cooperate, you try to solve each others' problems.

(I suppose a big problem is keeping your populace in line...)

Michael Catolico wrote:
> it is in fact a pure celebration of the ingenuity of capitalism for
> "solving" just about any problem possible. what of course in unstated
> is that most of the problems addressed were created by the very system
> being praised. solutions under this context become simply a matter of
> choices to be made in the marketplace (e.g. buy wasteful and
> environmentally damaging energy or buy energy in a sustainable and
> conscientious way - but no matter what "buy").

Is it like that line? "Capitalism is like alcohol -- the cause and solution of life's problems!"

Tayssir



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