[lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu May 29 15:35:27 PDT 2008


Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
> At 02:41 PM 5/29/2008, Thomas Seay wrote:
>
> >Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
>
> Tony Soprano: It's just the level of Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit!
> Every fuckin' new idea they come up with ~ it's supposed to make
> things better....it makes things worse.
>
> Dr. Melfi: Ok, right. I agree. The center cannot hold. The falcon cannot
> hear the falconer.
>
> Tony: What the fuck are you talking about?
>

Unfortunately, however, the center is holding very well. Don't mistake chaos, military losses, discontent, lots of wringing of intellectuals' hands, financial panic, etc for anything really amiss. If something were even remotely close to really remiss at the center Rockefellers et all would have better things to do than sdquabble over marginal policy at Exxon.

Carrol



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