EZ was wrong about many things, but he nailed one thing: the corrosive effect of lending money at interest (usury) on the fabric of a culture.
Speaking of the generation returning home after the horror of the trenches, he wrote:
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.
Sounds remarkably temporal doesn't it?
~ mce
Monday, October 31, 2011
CCCP
I work for a college that shall remain nameless. This is not because I'm worried about getting fired. I'd love to get fired on a free speech issue and be able to retire early and well on the settlement.
My college is an open admission community college. If you have a pulse, you get admitted. I'm a great believer that everyone should get a shot, so it's fine with me.
It used to be a fun place to teach before the bureaucrats, faux deans and technocrats took over. Now we are about rules, regulations, paperwork and, increasingly, micromanagement.
The college stays in business by having a tiny cadre of full-time, tenured professors and a huge army of adjuncts. In other words, it stays in business via exploitation, the The True American way.
If I'm going to write about the place, I do need some snappy, short way to refer to it. It bills itself as the Community College of Central Pennsylvania.
Eureka! Henceforth I shall refer to it as the CCCP. Somehow this seems both ironic and appropriate. Also, I doubt the former Soviet Union will sue me.
So hello CCCP; you will be hearing more from me.
~mce
My college is an open admission community college. If you have a pulse, you get admitted. I'm a great believer that everyone should get a shot, so it's fine with me.
It used to be a fun place to teach before the bureaucrats, faux deans and technocrats took over. Now we are about rules, regulations, paperwork and, increasingly, micromanagement.
The college stays in business by having a tiny cadre of full-time, tenured professors and a huge army of adjuncts. In other words, it stays in business via exploitation, the The True American way.
If I'm going to write about the place, I do need some snappy, short way to refer to it. It bills itself as the Community College of Central Pennsylvania.
Eureka! Henceforth I shall refer to it as the CCCP. Somehow this seems both ironic and appropriate. Also, I doubt the former Soviet Union will sue me.
So hello CCCP; you will be hearing more from me.
~mce
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Direct Action
"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker." — Mikhail Bakunin
Occupation and Anarchy
The thing that brings me joy about the Occupy Wall Street movement is that (at this point) it is a purely anarchist movement. No real leaders or spokespersons and no agenda other than we are poor and we are pissed. Pure direct action; pure anarchy.
The media don't know what to make of this. They expect movements to have leaders and agendas. Clueless motherfuckers.
I don't expect this phase of the action to have much effect. But it will grow and it will become more violent. Also, many Boomer veterans of the sixties who are also screwed will eventually join.
The police thugs in Oakland already showed by their riot that they are hired guns serving the interests of the one percent.
Blood in the streets. That only happens in Europe, right. Maybe not.
The anger seething against the purchase of the government by Wall Street will only get worse.
Every member of Congress and the President are part of the one percent or owned by them. Obamaramadingdong has raised more money from wall street than any other president. That says it all.
There is no political solution for this, only revolution and possible civil war. It is time to begin selectively assassinating specially chosen members of the Congress and the Executive Branch. That just might get their attention, Nothing else will.
Mike Essig
No Gods.
No masters.
The media don't know what to make of this. They expect movements to have leaders and agendas. Clueless motherfuckers.
I don't expect this phase of the action to have much effect. But it will grow and it will become more violent. Also, many Boomer veterans of the sixties who are also screwed will eventually join.
The police thugs in Oakland already showed by their riot that they are hired guns serving the interests of the one percent.
Blood in the streets. That only happens in Europe, right. Maybe not.
The anger seething against the purchase of the government by Wall Street will only get worse.
Every member of Congress and the President are part of the one percent or owned by them. Obamaramadingdong has raised more money from wall street than any other president. That says it all.
There is no political solution for this, only revolution and possible civil war. It is time to begin selectively assassinating specially chosen members of the Congress and the Executive Branch. That just might get their attention, Nothing else will.
Mike Essig
No Gods.
No masters.
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