On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:04 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Thu, January 21, 2010 1:44 pm, John Gulick wrote:
>
>> But I ask you, has a qualitatively new stage of
>> degeneration been breached?
>
> Yes, it has.
>
> Late last year, we grad workers at the UI went on a two-day strike,
> which
> we won, thanks to great turnout and solid community outreach. But I
> noticed something interesting when I was marching with my fellow
> grads on
> the picket lines: a toughness in our faces, a kind of beaten-
> downness, if
> you will. Because of the years of working 80-hour weeks for pitiful
> pay.
> Because of the knowledge that the jobs just aren't there anymore.
>
> The rot and ruination have reached the point that even elite
> scholars at
> top-tier, billion-dollar research universities are hanging on by our
> long-since-proletarianized fingernails.
>
> US, meet USSR.
Back in the US, Back in the US, Back in the USSR...
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos