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

[Louis Kontos]

Carrol has a point with regard to the logic of 'crisis' -- Rockefeller et al are not in crisis mode. Yet there is truth to the claim that the center cannot hold, if by center we mean things like ordinary indoctrination around various 'collective concepts', e.g., the free market, the land of the of free, the sanctity of marriage and family, manifest destiny, etc. When people become disillusioned or incredulous the center cannot hold.
Louis

 

On Thursday, May 29, 2008, at 06:39PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> At 02:41 PM 5/29/2008, Thomas Seay wrote:
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>> >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.
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>> Tony: What the fuck are you talking about?
>> 
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>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.
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>Carrol
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