SOCIAL: F&#@#k. The Bailout Sucks.

[Amandeep Jawa]

Wait - what was our choice?  Cause I would have picked a Mars mission,  
recreating our energy grid using renewables, a rebuild of the school  
system, and bringing mammoths back from extinction through genetic  
engineering, funding a vast worldwide education and health effort  
(esp. for women), and a puppy.

But seriously what was our choice?

'deep

.ps
Really, I'm reading a druid?  And he's making a lot of sense so far?   
Have I been in CA too long?





On Nov 25, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Tom Radulovich wrote:

> Of course we had a choice.
>
> John Michael Greer, who writes "The Archdruid Report" (It isn't a  
> cute handle; he is actually an Archdruid), wrote a piece called "The  
> Flight to Abstraction" which I haven't been able to get out of my  
> head for a few weeks.  The post contains one of my favorite quotes  
> about Las Vegas: "of all of the cities I have ever visited, Las  
> Vegas is my least favorite: a garish urban cancer that apparently  
> exists for the sole purpose of proving that it’s possible to take a  
> barren, scorpion-infested wasteland and make something even worse  
> out of it."
>
> Las Vegas provides a segue to Giambattista Vico's treatise on  
> history, which includes the idea that as societies age, they lose a  
> focus on the concrete realities and focus increasingly on  
> abstractions. For example, the cost of the AIG bailout alone (± $250  
> billion) would build the US a world-class, nationwide electrified  
> passenger rail system. But somehow, the task of shoring up AIG and  
> all of the abstract 'capital' it represents (capital once meant  
> 'goods') became a much more compelling political imperative than  
> creating actual, tangible, usable infrastructure we could use to  
> move around the country without continuing to destroy the planet.
>
> Greer's take on history and civilization owes much to Oswald  
> Spengler, and his view of industrial civilization's prospects is  
> throughly pessimistic, but he is a thoughtful and original writer.
>
> http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-decision-some-two-and-half-years-ago.html
>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:
>
>> The original post is here:
>>
>> http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/big-bailouts-bigger-bucks/
>>
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:
>>
>>> damn. this f*()&)ng sucks.  I don't know that we had a choice, but  
>>> F@#$k!
>>> ----------------------------------
>>>
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