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Dominance Games / Politics: Choose yer poison

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , on November 11, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Do we judge that which our public lecturers think of their audience and their audiences of them by the searing, well thought out, rational and honed honorable tact taken by these valued troubadours as they struggle within the depths of their souls to get right the pronouncements upon which they dwell and  the facts upon which they struggle hard to verify?

When speaking to audience all of high moral and intellectual caliber it is all important that one speak to the worth of intellectual rigor and not to simple smarmy statements of self congratulatory mocking…… statement always made when in no fear of competent retaliation.

That they have an audience blessed with extreme self confidence and total abject fear of being in any way challenged and that they are the procures who pander to their audience’s every weak kneed trembling want and need of a fix and a spiritual high and desire goes without question.

There are those who value well these dependent junkies, the cream of their flock and who value well the drugs of their own choice that they push and disseminate and we have, then, those thrilled who have weave into the lore of their pushers the roll of sainted diet, givers of  quaking chills and uncommon paradise.

You choose yer poison, yer messenger and and ye take yer chances.   You choose yer poison and ye take yer drama…. the salacious dreams of our eternal youth make us able to live forever.  Up the clouds.

Of interest:

http://www.cjr.org/fiftieth_anniversary/why_a_review_of_journalism.php

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Dominance Games / Politics: The sweetly malignant

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

The numbers say that 99 percent is more than 1 percent.   The power says that 1 percent is more than 99 percent.  The 99 percent are nicely split between those who think they’re getting shafted and those who think they’re just being stopped from licking the boots of the kings and queens.  Upward mobility means playing the game of the ones who own the store.  Any competent realist knows that.

The sweetly malignant of the 99 percent wish to tear down all that is holy…not unlike the sweetly malignant of the tea’s and their ilk.  The little devils want either a rogue malignancy of the left or the right.  The others wish America to be America….definition to be determined by what ever megalomaniac is in the defining mood.

The problem seems to stem from the point of view of the boys and girls on the economic outs.  Do they see a rigged game.  If they see a rigged game do they see it rigged by by those who stop producers from running amok or by those who stop suckers from getting a piece of the systemic and economic action?  It seems as though the powerless should be able to identify the powerful and the suckers should be able to identify the way they are played.  But alas not.  The devils of our hearts have to stay the bad guys until beyond all hope and beyond all reason they can be seen as bearable.  In this climate that is a tough out.  The devils of our hearts are simple beings that need to bear the brunt of our comfort zones and frustrations.  They just will never leave.  The devils of our hearts are that which we see behind every tree and shrub, bush and factors talking sense.

Of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/us/politics/republicans-talk-of-limiting-tax-breaks.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha24

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Dominance Games / Politics: The bettors are smart folk who know their marks

Posted in Commentary, current events, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on November 6, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Tis the vaunted special season of political persuasion here, there and every which way but loose.  Sham actors, politicos,  pros, advertising geniuses lack not money, restraint, conscience, morality, honor.  With  character traits reflective of little personal worth other than the usual banal drives towards wealth and power our message makers humble themselves to communicate with us, the dead.  They read into our mystic psyches and us growling masses growl and seek the red meat of battle.

Arts and science and the accumulating wisdom of the prosperous schemers, looters, owners, breakers, haters, intimidators and reprobates tell true of success for the taking and obnoxia, distortion, demon bating, sneering for eternal truth and secular wants. The carrion appeal to the better natures of our beings enable us lords of stature and  brutish heels of repulsion.  Sad, mad, chosen calculations to be sure.

Approached, factored, fractured, and given the charge for the triumphant lame and the happily weak of mind and will, strivers strive

Postulates, apostates, seers and cynics love the great unwashed and see only fair game for their driven snow.  Through vague mists of hope they see and seek a vile and little and mean little audience.  The wealth of the wealthy and corrupt gets spent well for the true right pandering to reach its begging audience.  This wealth is not squandered,  not spent for fun.  The many marks are noted and the bets are placed.  The bettors are smart folk who know well their charming marks.

Of note:

http://www.economist.com/node/21536579

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Dominance Games / Politics: Love the muggers

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on November 3, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Since all processes around all politics are fixed only when they are not then it is no great surprise that all of our paragons of virtue and sincerity, freedom lovers all, fight mightily for their very own little ends but fight mightily not for the preservation of a legitimate democratic republic.

Politics ain’t bean bags and the stakes are always high, the pressures are always great, the threats to law and order always lurking,  and the urge to maximize power a fact of human existence.  That said one should just be happy with those who just don’t espouse outright oligarchy or gangsterism…… which is a tough bargain when seeking the heart of hearts of our players and schemers.

There is no there there to incentify a politico to stand for a system that, built in, respects the ideas of rational political markets, free political markets, non fixed or slanted, faked, or baked political markets….. heavenly dear political markets.

Backing and  passion for those who seek the role of holier than though, disciplinarian and self righteous buffoon, firm and fair reformer with a flair, sure to be naive practicing cynic is left to those with no vested interest in political outcomes and the competing interest making for dynamic policy.   What possible push is a push too far?  What possible war is a war to childish?  What possible world view is an acceptable world view?  The he’s or she’s who love to skin ripe enemies get our ultimate respect.  Love the muggers.

Of interest:

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/191517-arizona-left-with-no-clear-path-in-district-map-flap-

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Dominance Games / Politics: Sand kicked in faces at the beach. In weakness of execution exalt.

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on November 2, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Is it so hard to factor in a decent value structure into the vast void and barren landscape that is the place where our intrepid political and cultural warriors live?

The very many heroes and heroines of our songs and stories, our dribble and spew, are simply just strong enough to work the magic of preset opinion, preset formula, preset world view, preset wars to enable them to claim to be the vanquishing soldiers of the sun and the winnowing whips of fury.

It takes strength and character to face the void and go through the intellectually humbling tasks of squeezing every last ounce and angle, false fact and false premise, hateful hook and stereotypical slander out of any bit of business, story, argument, policy mist or vague hint at actual facts.

A public mouth, public angler, private mouth, private angler should be a proud and vivid thing.  All preaching staunchness and the fruits of manly toughness they practice well the bullish arts of might and right, of the big lie and the small derision, the propped up symbolism and the herd mentality.

Strong and viscous, terrifying and vivacious, the agenda setters are the best of the best, the king wrestlers in the swamp of a ring.

They are just not strong enough to build their precisions and their emptiness around well versed, well constructed, fondling of fact based, mincing of honor based, cores of arguments and premises that might require other than a love for and worship of the tired, the dim, the loud and the self rewarding.

Up the heavers.  In weakness of execution they exalt.  They have the current paths to acceptability and power.  Strength is in the willing so of that which is useful and that which is convenient.  Players who respect other avenues or virtues  are the naive waifs and powerless frolics who get sand kicked in their faces at the beach.  tough makes truth.  Wisdom makes tedium.  Intellectual laziness is for those who care.  Th e flag flies high in the winds of the felonious assaults upon invasive questioning.  Lack of certainty is lack of standing.  the weak of analysis are the masters of the universe of the message makers.  “Go maim”….the call of out pristine wild.  The wolf is king.

Of interest:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/in-referendum-greece-seeks-something-it-had-lost-sovereignty/247765/

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Dominance Games / Politics: Keep the club. Waste the thought. Fine minds are the illusions of the soft.

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on November 1, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

That there is no such thing as a fine mind that is unable to thrash out the complexities of issues in such a way that there is gleaned an understanding of an opposing point of view and the logical structure and world view upon which it may  rest is undeniable.

That there is no such thing as a fine mind that is shut off so completely from the human experience that it sees only the pittance of the mock trials and emotions which make up the day of the dim is also undeniable.

That there is no such thing as a fine mind that may wallow in the simplicities of fallacy and the inaccuracies of illogical and false premise or unexamined premise is in itself  a tautological statement.

That there is no such thing as a fine mind resting in the breeding grounds of political speech is an issue, a statement upon which few will land.  Intelligence is a valued thing and smarts is what we all are sure of in our own very selves.  We are smart enough to understand the world and its challenges…understand those what are with us and those what are agin’ us.  We are savvy enough to see the hell cats at the door and the rats nipping at our heels.

We see the provocateurs, the subversives, the self righteous, the aggrieved, the aggressive, the self important and the rock solid.  We see the whole menagerie of fools.  We see through our grand and gloried prisms the dangled baits of entertainment high and visceral pleasures low so that we can have always some use for the rotten rotten that confronts us.

We see what we need to see and we need to see what we see and smarts don’t mean a good g-d damn.  Keep the club.  Waste the thought.  Praise the kickers and seek the bit of the spoils.  Fine minds are the illusions of the soft.  That’s all there is.

Of interest:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67283.html

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Dominance Games / Politics: Choke holds / Grand illusions

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games:

There is no jobs crises as we’ve been informed that were the unemployed amongst us real worthwhile human beings then they would be working at the myriad of jobs that could be of their choosing.

We’ve been informed that there are plenty of alternatives for people who are forced from their homes, as well.  By selfishly wishing to stay put and to demand that where possible they retain a roof over their heads they are just impeding the noble march of the free market unchained.

And just imagine…We’ve been informed that we are a nation in danger of being polluted by inferior folk, in danger of having the mongrel views of inferior folk infect our political process……they must be stopped and the must have their voting franchises taken away.

And workers who wish workers rights, we’ve been informed, are no more than thieves who wish to snuff out the lights of innovation, entrepreneurship, capitalism, growth by taking more for their labors than what is wished to be offered, more for their labors than a fixed market might deem appropriate.

What is the purpose of a political system, apolitical entity, a political process if those who gain their sweet little choke holds and rise to the top cannot exercise their duly earned power and dictate the terms that make them proud.

Of note:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-discovers-the-villains-conservatives-are-taking-back-america-from-americans/

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Dominance Games: Bad and murderous public policy

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games /Politics

So there once was a labor movement that was able to push back against unchecked capitalism.  So there were once trust busters, those crying for fairness and equality.  There were always those wishing to push back against abuse……personal, systemic, hellacious, unrequited.  Action, reaction, synthetic settling of corruptible balances of menace, power, glamor, deviation.  The little boys and girls would wish to get just enough to let the big boys and girls play their games and break their enemies.

Owned souls and orgasmic greed are not too damned pretty but they make the world go round.  Self wonder, self aggrandizement, power seeking is the way of the world.  Greedy, rotten bastards and economic sultans fill the annals of history, society, propriety, song and story.  So damned shocking to see human nature on parade.

Legislate goodness and mercy, civic responsibility and chaste souls.  Legislate smarts,  critical thought, roses and propaganda.  Send away those who gleefully reinforce lovely visceral hates.

Systems get broke.  Systems get gamed and shamed.  They get bought and sold, worshiped and raped.  They get taken, get protected, get mean.  Vulnerabilities in systems get exploited, get wrapped up in pretty little bows and get given as gifts to happy little peddlers.  Too damned big to fail means I got you by the …..  Too damned strong to compromise means I win, you lose, get taken, go drown.  Too damned intimidating to be spoken to means blood gets shed and lives get ruined.  Pity no balance of interests, of powers, of regress, of exploitation.  Mean means being at the mercy of those without mercy.

Broken systems need be fixed.  End game are not winner take all.  Suckers are suckers unless they understand the way things work.  Push is always is answered by push back unless the pushers get smart enough to kill push back and remove those who would do so…push back.  We call that bad and murderous public policy.  Otherwise we have the show and the prospect of someone able to rig the game against the killers, the maimers, the viscous, the sinister.  Don’t hold your breath.

Of note:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65934.html

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Dominance Games: True saviors

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on October 13, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

My anger is angrier than your anger.  My hurts are more hurting than your hurts.  My pain is more painful than your pain…… A grand race to martyrdom swinging and slinging along is now our daily bread.  concentrate upon real frustrations and real inequities, real imbalances of real power, real dangers to the survival of real people and real lives if you will but you then are a dumb lummox who just doesn’t get the uses of protest.

Someone special has to  take ownership of the greater pain, the truer pain, the more real frustration, the more honest delineation of vile offenders of human kind.  Someone special has to  take ownership of brand, be the true blue and only real brand, sell the true and only all in one miracle elixir and remedy for all that ails.

How these things stay real…. no more players seeking power for power’s sake, tears for tears sake.  All little protest movements are ripe for the pickings, ripe for the co-opting, ripe for the using and abusing.

Those in pain choose to respect the pain of others.  Its the pain that matters, not the game.  Never are there calculating bastards ready to wring out the doctrine of true social ills and homey misery.  What other good does protest offer?  Give wily bastards a nice little tool to use to skin more suckers.  Bless the beasts and the children.

Tea bags, wall banging…lets see who has a heart.

Of Note:

Politico     Tea party goes after Occupiers

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65826.html

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Dominance Games: The blind con

Posted in Commentary, current events, News, opinion, political analysis, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , on September 20, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Economic policy is the much debatable rancid football of our times.  Do we want heaven on earth for our beleaguered country?  Do we want a garden of Eden with life good and cares small?  Do we want the fruits of honest labor to bear fruits of sustainable labor?

Is there access to material, innovation, coordination, distribution, efficiency in markets….all the base underlying needs of wealth and plenty?  If there is plenty to be had then the problem is in how best to access it.  If there is not, then the problem is in how best to find or create it…plenty.

Inefficient systems or insufficient bounties open themselves up to battles over who has access to the ultimate controls of goods and services, force and law, mobility, dictates of behavior, access to survival.  Abundant economies make the jockeying for such power verily a spectator sport with most happy enough to let those in the arena game out their fiefdoms as long as they leave paths of survival for the rest of the worker ants.  In tight times those who have fiefdoms wish only to protect them and keep them…wish only to keep the hordes from the gates, force on their side.  Policy is smoke.  Policy is mirrors.  Policy is tactic and strategy for establishing order, hierarchy, reigns of power, access to the never ending more.

Systems are power based, power centric, power diffused.  Power hungry bastards with power use many tricks to work their ways forward.  Weak sisters and savants dream the dream of being cultural icons and philosopher despots as they bring force to startling rhapsodies of ideological purities.  In the end it is about gaining control of a system shaped and molded by forces at your beck and call.  The interests of the rabble can always be used to seduce and undermine when they are sold a rancid dream and forced down a path where they end up with no say but to find scapegoats for their false dreams gone awry and astray…and hearty thank yous and ass kissing to their patient masters.

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