Joel
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Barry Brooks <durable at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> LBO is a near-dead list. It was my favorite. Now, I lament is has too
> few observers. Participants can't be good observers.
>
> I welcome quibbles of concern over the use of any word "x," or any other
> faint indications the message got through to the LBO list. Caution: Verbal
> abuse might reveal it has been briefly viewed. Silence might indicate a
> taboo subject, which would be the safe thing for those who don't wish
> to avoid being labeled horriblists.
>
> I suppose Doug, who's possibilites are revealed by his wonderful KPFA
> programs, has moved on from this list, leaving emails such as this
> without the full derision they surely deserve and which he is too polite
> (or
> too busy) to express.
>
> Barry
>
> **********************
> Whatever:
>
> Having been born wrong the first time, for many people it seems
> necessary to accept the bs world and just join the herd of suicidal
> victims swimming denial propaganda. (mortality first) We are stuck
> being trapped in a world and a life we never choose, and which we don't
> control, or don't control very much.
>
> Even though we seem to have toasted our planetary Eden gift, is is
> interesting, and maybe even useful, to to imagine how we could have
> made things work out well for our group of earth parasites.
>
> The smartest among us are not smart enough to make shit into big-macs
> without market help, yet the gap in understanding among us is so large
> that smart people should overcome the humility imposed by reality in
> order to scrape some bs off the windshield, leaving a sticky fog, which
> is slightly better than total blindness.
>
>
> As one place to jump in to reality, imagine without pride two things:
> 1.
> We are parasites on the planet earth.
> 2.
> We have been very stupid and very bad stewards of what we have been
> given. We may say thank you to some Godversion, and yet still
> inconsistently we may somehow feel we have EARNED what has really been
> given/taken. (laugh track here)
>
>
> The idea that we create wealth by work is denial of what we have been
> given. That denial supports an odd theory that more work is what we
> need, as is the planet (Eden) does not provide the source of all
> wealth (machine harvested). Although our planet, Earth, is already
> overloaded by we human parasites, we pretend that more growth is a
> solution to our problems, as if a lack of growth indicates our failure
> and not urgent necessity.
>
> Do we need growth? Contraception has been invented (bs/innovated).
> Investors could do very well without asset appreciation so long as
> dividends provide the accepted return on investment. Growth in
> consumption, merely in order to preserve our imagined need to produce
> as much as possible with full employment, is folly. Can't we see that
> consumption beyond what we really need is a waste of wealth. Our denial
> of our limits, and the vulgar pride of human wealth creation that has
> blinded us to the most basic solution to the reduction in the need for
> human labor, which is an acceptance of un-earned income, unearned income
> which today only the 1% get. Can we have real capitalism without
> capital for ordinary people? Can demorcacy exist without being a facade?
>
> Capitalism allows profits, while computerized automation shifts
> income from wages to profits by eliminating wage costs, and thus
> unearned income must become available to the other almost redundant
> 99%. That will allow the needed jobs to be done without a need for
> hyper-active consumption, or for any need for the insecurity of wage
> dependence.
>
> Wage dependence is hell for those living in an economy
> hell-bent on elimination of labor costs. Let's go ahead and cut labor
> costs, then let's face the necessary results, which will be a reduced
> need for human labor. I like automation and the leisure and unearned
> income it makes necessary. Cut the jobs for more profit, and then let
> the 99% get the extra profits. Those made redundant will not find paid
> jobs.
>
> Why continue to let false pride in the imagined human creation of
> wealth to make things worse? Why not forgive those who dream of
> humility in the driver's seat. All endangered, both owners and workers
> are mere parasites on our fragile planet. Pride does go before a fall,
> because it requires our loss of touch with the obvious simple reality
> of our parasite status in the order of nature.
>
> Be more? Be more what? Be more full of shit, more wasteful. and more
> destructive? More destructive is hard to imagine. PBS is far too
> politically correct. so they must front for consumption growth, and
> pc hyper-active economics. PBS has been funded by biz far more than by
> the public, so we get the "be more" crap, frequently. Oppression and
> folly have so many varieties each of which is terrific.
>
> Barry
> Parasites Unite! Be Less
>
> Note on unclear use of words:
> Terrific, once simply meant terrible... causing terror, now to be clear
> we must call it horrible or even better one must use the full
> monstorsity, "horrific oppression and folly." Don't become a
> horriblist! There will soon be a law against supporting horriblists.
> Will horrific began to mean something very good as terrific has come to
> mean very good? Horrific would sell movies. Could it become flattery to
> be called horrific?
>
> For now, if someone says you are terrific just say, "I didn't mean to
> scare you." Why be understood?
>
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