dagblog - Comments for "Moderation vs. Violent Mood Swings"

Revealing your employment

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 12:36:18 +0000

In reply to Works 60% of the time, all

Revealing your employment secrets or wot?

Works 60% of the time, all

quinn esq — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 12:21:01 +0000

In reply to I resolutely disagree with a

Works 60% of the time, all the time.

Ah yes, our psychological

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 05:51:36 +0000

In reply to The idea of market driven

Ah yes, our psychological triggers work for all desires - a mobile app, a candidate, a trip to Cancun, our spiritual exercise class for self-awakening. The opium of the masses might be this continued stream of uplifting empowering drivel that makes us feel exceptional and just shy of complete 24x7 - the illusion of power and control is so much more comforting than actually wielding it. I choose the red pill.

The idea of market driven

moat — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:30:27 +0000

In reply to Seems vague, not getting it -

The idea of market driven products is that enough people want them and so they are made.

There are other reasons why things are made that is a choice made from different criteria from simple demand.

Our society mixes these very different products together as if they were the same.

So a promotion for a war is very similar to the promotion for a drug.

The products are not all products. The language needs to change to distinguish the differences.

We can barely talk to each other.

Seems vague, not getting it -

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:08:12 +0000

In reply to It is safe to say that we

Seems vague, not getting it - could you elaborate and/or give some examples what you mean pls?

It is safe to say that we

moat — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 23:47:32 +0000

In reply to Not sure how much production

It is safe to say that we have all become the petit bourgeoisie that Marx said we would be if the ordering principle of private property was not overturned by Communism.

Marx put a lot of emphasis on our society being a resultant of the combined vectors of all means of production. His theory of exchange as the ultimate arbiter of those matters has oddly become the blueprint of many economists who ardently rebuke that other side of his work.

What Marx accepted as inevitable is not that far from the present consensus of how things can be made. I question the necessity for that limit.

Not sure how much production

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 05:06:22 +0000

In reply to The GOP are not the only

Not sure how much production is tied to money - a friend's describing a 20-something who doesn't know Hong Kong's part of China, but she's making $2 million a year selling creams on the internet while the factory makes $100k. Things are much further out of tilt than the Marxist dialectic days, but the "workers" and the "capitalists" aren't so fixed and obvious, as old money's no guarantee and the nouveau riche can be largely anyone. A democratization of exploitation.

The GOP are not the only

moat — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 01:11:55 +0000

In reply to Moderation vs. Violent Mood Swings

The GOP are not the only people fighting a cultural war. We are all struggling to have our idea of what is right win in whatever struggle we are in.
The big changes in law are a part of that struggle. So are the conflicts that have to be worked out between people at work and amongst neighbors. The former would be meaningless without the latter.
Our present means of production has great influence upon what those scenes of conflict look like where fighting happens. There is a lot of talk about how to exchange things but very little discussion about how things should be made.
As if all that production wasn't what all of us agreed to produce when we took up the hammer or the pen.

That's "please, may I come

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:04:09 +0000

In reply to Great, but I went through

That's "please, may I come back to bother the shit out of you, sir." Nope, you don't bother me near as much as I bother myself. Thank you, may I have another? Personally I think we've been on the highway to hell since stopped giving young men flattops.

I resolutely disagree with a

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:59:24 +0000

In reply to I completely agree with some

I resolutely disagree with a bit of ot.