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Dominance Games / Politics: The soul of the American public.

Posted in Commentary, current events, News, opinion, Politics, satire with tags , , , , , on November 22, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

So we have the fight for the soul of the American public.  We have those lacking compassion.  We have those awash with it.  We have those understanding the trials and conflicts of production and those who appreciate not the efforts of innovation, management, survival.  We have those who see the old evils of unbridled laissez – faire capitalism and those who do not.   It is always the old conflicts.  What does capitalism owe to labor….what does labor owe to capitalism?  Is labor an endless pool to be eternally abused as an endless glut on the market?  Is capital an endless evil trying to navigate the bitter fields of production, efficiency, competition, vulnerabilities in markets and systems?

The age old fight between the individual and the collective……the fodder of the collective versus the soul of the individual.  Where today is the the acceptable line drawn?  Do we not factor in the line at all?  Stifle the human spirit and the society is dead.  Stifle the living prospects of the general populace and the society is rancid.  Capital creates capital….that is its purpose……all other grand benefits are off shoots not aims.   Labor creates survival……too much a drag on production and nimbleness can kill the goose….Disrespect for either of the two, the fat cats, the greedy parasites and ugly is the world.

The many mealy mouthed babblers, cons, charlatans, fools and worthless scoundrels wrapping themselves in the flag that is the last refuge of scoundrels all claim to speak for the American public when the American public can’t even speak for itself.  We don’t know what the hell we stand for……we’re too damned put upon, intimidated used, abused, manipulated and sapped to care.  A soul requires soul searching.  Soul searching requires contemplation, thought, quiet.  Quiet requires that the whole damned political world shut up.

Of note:

http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/will_the_irs_derail_nonprofit_journalism.php

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Dominance Games / Politics: So damned complicated

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political analysis, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

The go getters want to go and get.  The go getters want to camp in the camping grounds of those who’ve gone and got.  They want to charge up the hills of glory and reflected glory and throw their lots in with the canny and wise, the achievers, doers, job creators, wealth creators….. the hard working salt of the earth types who roll up their sleeves and build better worlds and make society a growing vibrant place…..That is what they wish to do.  A growing vibrant place is what they want.

The lazy idle and irredeemably intellectual snobbish wish to see the wealth of nations squandered on the lame and the halt and they wish to see the drive for innovation, creativity, risk, action, drama sucked out of everyday life so that all that is left are passionless drones who are the broad bland degenerate useless.

Those who seek redress of problems and bad ways know that they can petition a stagnant government only far too happy to answers to the needs of the afflicted and uncomfortable….that is what governments do…. that is what they are for.

Those wishing honest ascension to the places open to the making their mark, the doing of their wants, the breaking their enemies know that government is the enclave of those who support it, own it, pay for it, structure it, and that the good support of power should yield either the rewards of help or the rewards of no hindrance.

All of our power seekers let go and let alone  know where and when to stop, know where and when to pull back and not conquer or break, know whom to hurt, whom not to hurt, whom to care nothing about.  What collection of diddling fools need interest groups to speak truth to power, to speak muscle to power unchained, to intimidate the intimidators….the put upon care not who their masters are…. the bells and banjos of political and economic practice, discourse, fodder, talk, philosophy mean a mother load of nothing if the only thing able to be trusted is that whichever bastards gain the upper hand…they are the bastards that will screw you.

Respect for power.  Respect for checks on power.  Respect for survival of the fit.  Respect for being brothers keeper….its so damned complicated.  Better to just screw the one your with.

Of note:

http://www.economist.com/node/21533400

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Dominance Games / Politics: The room with a view

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics:

Poor poor American public.  Talking, speaking, listening, dialoguing, trying so hard to find a satisfactory common ground upon which all can rest weary heads.

Poor poor American public. Trying to grow and prosper and defend and educate, trying to tolerate and obfuscate and derail and incubate.  A legion of ideals, fabrications, factions, factors, dim lights, messianic hoaxes, hardened criminals and simpering bottom feeders.  We come from every which where and we melt together in the great melting pot of rough grub and half baked plaster.

Poor poor American public.  Stimulating essentials of sovereign virtue, stimulating essentials of urban legends and tooth fairies and Halloween ghosts and venal goblins.  Pictures of racks for punishment and spears for flaying dance magically in the fires of sensuous passions and kneeled at deference that define the worlds we wish for and the worlds we wish our future generations.  The magic dragons of puffery and cynicism circle aimlessly as we all see through the prisms of choice the structured worlds of what ought to be.

Uneasy lies the heart that sees a world at odds with the perfection of true right and goodness that the visions of the vision fairies deem to grant us in our hours of yearning.  The spectrum, the sliding scale, the integral proportion of wealth and power, force and deference….oh where oh where can we go?  Where oh where can we find the solace of vision and the comfort of quest that we wholesomely deserve?

All inclusive are we.  A world of aristocracy.  A world of plutocracy, of meritocracy, of politically and morally correct?  A world of structured class and each in his or her place.  A world of simple and constant and ferocious dreams, wants, divides, fantasies, sets, set ups.  What do we aim for?  Who do we bury? What looks good in the mirror?  What is the delineation of place and time?  What is our shared vision?  What is that vague mist of folly and smoke?  Why is there the love of all mankind and simpering fools as their brothers’ keepers?

Of note:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/10/privatizing-police-work/329/

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Dominance Games / Politics: The better the sizzle the tougher the steak

Posted in Commentary, current events, News, opinion, political analysis, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

It sells, the belief that anyone unhappy with disparity of power and / or wealth is a communist loony.

It sells that anyone who does not feel that unleashed private enterprise will have any other agenda than to shape policies and profits for their own best interests as they streamline business and push those at their mercy to the bottom.

It sells this divine trust in those with power and this divine trust that those with power are the only living souls of virtue in a world of drones, incompetents, freeloaders and leftist culture thieves.

It sells that markets are not rigged and that the nation is an economic system unto itself and that non national options are not part of any economic equation.

It sells that we are the economic masters of our own fate and that no private economic concerns have little to fear from or heed to the nation state that is us.

All of this sells.

The dream of rugged individualism sells as if we were in a wilderness of hidden plenty just waiting for the strength to work and sweat to fetch it.

It sells that this is what we are, true self reliant pioneers unfettered by traps set up tp make us dependent, broke, broken, useless and in our place.  All of this sells because the sizzle always sells and the better the sizzle the tougher the steak.

Of note:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/1011/McConnell_fireman_teacher_layoffs_a_local_problem.html

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refer

http://www.etalkinghead.com/

http://thewashingtonfancy.com/

http://www.thejeffersontree.com/

Dominance Games / Politics: A room with a view

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on October 22, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics:

Poor poor American public.  Talking, speaking, listening, dialoguing, trying so hard to find a satisfactory common ground upon which all can rest weary heads.

Poor poor American public. Trying to grow and prosper and defend and educate, trying to tolerate and obfuscate and derail and incubate.  A legion of ideals, fabrications, factions, factors, dim lights, messianic hoaxes, hardened criminals and simpering bottom feeders.  We come from every which where and we melt together in the great melting pot of rough grub and half baked plaster.

Poor poor American public.  Stimulating essentials of sovereign virtue, stimulating essentials of urban legends and tooth fairies and Halloween ghosts and venal goblins.  Pictures of racks for punishment and spears for flaying dance magically in the fires of sensuous passions and kneeled at deference that define the worlds we wish for and the worlds we wish our future generations.  The magic dragons of puffery and cynicism circle aimlessly as we all see through the prisms of choice the structured worlds of what ought to be.

Uneasy lies the heart that sees a world at odds with the perfection of true right and goodness that the visions of the vision fairies deem to grant us in our hours of yearning.  The spectrum, the sliding scale, the integral proportion of wealth and power, force and deference….oh where oh where can we go?  Where oh where can we find the solace of vision and the comfort of quest that we wholesomely deserve?

All inclusive are we.  A world of aristocracy.  A world of plutocracy, of meritocracy, of politically and morally correct?  A world of structured class and each in his or her place.  A world of simple and constant and ferocious dreams, wants, divides, fantasies, sets, set ups.  What do we aim for?  Who do we bury? What looks good in the mirror?  What is the delineation of place and time?  What is our shared vision?  What is that vague mist of folly and smoke?  Why is there the love of all mankind and simpering fools as their brothers’ keepers?

Of note:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/10/privatizing-police-work/329/

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refer

http://www.etalkinghead.com/

http://thewashingtonfancy.com/

http://www.thejeffersontree.com/

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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refer

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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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refer

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Dominance Games: Know no evil

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, economics, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

If you can trust the federal government to regulate and bureaucratize and mismanage any problem to death then you can trust private enterprise to squeeze out and throw away anything but profits, put firewalls up against accountability, pay off those who need be paid off and have no one available speak to in order to resolve problems.   Each system is no damned good and bless us we have to put up with them cause they are no damned good save that there are no others…..  no other ways to play and influence and cheat and steal.

All the cherubic hustlers hustling out their own cherubic views of our own cherubic government and our own cherubic commerce, power, culture, thought police, thought control, thought vacancy … imagine innate corruptions in the holy sea of faith, hope and charity…. all innate godliness…. the imagination is in itself a venal sin.

The great hyped thoughtlessly, mindlessly, guilelessly promises kept and miles traveled stem from the lack of  original sin.   A firm, fair, incorruptible system of acts and beliefs; we cherish all who see no evil.

Of agendas, enemies, flaws in hearts of evil doers there is no mountain of belief.  Worshiped positions taken are always exaggerated to comic extremes.

Culture, tap dance, inbred sellers of bright and shiny things.  The tricks of ner’ do well poets of seething tears and heart tugging virtues.  Efficiency, balance, purpose, song….. the shell game and the dance of seven veils.  Little pet peeves and smarmy debates all feel good when the sun rises and helps the tall grass grow.  Good place to hide.

of note:

http://www.economist.com/node/21531481

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refer

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Dominance Games: Wealth and power

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on October 6, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

It is very nice to be too big to fail.  It is a comforting thing to know that one has achieved a stature and an accession to power that makes ones survival vital to the interests of millions whether or not those millions like or benefit by ones actions.

Its very nice to be too big to fail.  Too big to fail and you can dictate terms, dictate agendas, frame policy, run the world.  Too big to fail and you have permanent protection from rivals and enemies….you have a stranglehold and a fear factor to use.  You have intimidation to muster, favors to hand out.  Size may be desirable to stave off encroaching competition but that competition is just a rival for more control over the powers you control.  Your size offers self protection, not protection for those over whom you lord power and control of futures.

Monopoly is the end point of unfettered capitalism.  Monopoly means the end of forces that can put checks upon those who strive to be great.  They win.  Their power need serve none but themselves.  Why promote the easy paths for those of extreme wealth and power to amass more extreme wealth and power.  Power does corrupt……absolute power does tend to corrupt absolutely. Why do we celebrate the openings to such outcomes.  Stifling power is not stifling competition or the pursuits of productive capitalists.

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refer

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Dominance Games: The reflected glory of the clinched fist

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political analysis, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , , on September 29, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

I go often through the parts of some cities that are not as economically viable as others .  I see people, children, faces.  I see workers, strollers, commuters…city life.  It is what it is and my elucidation adds nothing to the pictures extant in the public mind.

For the sake of argument I will take the extreme position that not all of whom I see are ones who deserve the fate of not living more better and that not all uf whom I see deserve the fate of the free sanding scorn heaped upon those not able enough to contribute to the coffers of those who despise the  under classes…… the drag on the system of growth and sustainability that they are.  Were it not for the fact that they contribute canon fodder for warfare they would serve no purpose what so ever.

Those who look but do not see are dumb enough.  Those who see the scripts only manufactured for them by the charming demons of their natures are worse yet.

Class warfare is a foolish term when knowledge dictates classes should be fixed and that classes wishing something elas are pretenders and disrupters.

It is about power structure, stupid,   Power, freedom of movement and discourse for those who wish it, have it, own it, manipulate it.  They follow the laws of human nature as we know it and we allow them to maximize their proclivities…….anything that lessens access to wealth, power, control is un American and the America they have sold those who have sold their souls for a false image of belonging to their fraternity….the willing pawns of the dumb set enjoy sharing the same villains.  That is their pay off.  The reflected glory of the clinched fist.

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refer

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