More interesting ideas from idea land. Power and sovereignty, private enterprise, public control. The mind reels. Day in. Day out. The mind knows that businessmen are doers and makers of growth and progress. The mind knows that states and governments are encompassing behemoths who gobble up all air and do no earthly good. But who has sovereignty where? Who has power where? What is a national boundary? When lumped together in a much larger sample, what happens to the mean? Who runs the ball park? Who owns the ball?
More on the race to the bottom. How fast is fast enough? How slow is not at all? In the long run all is well. In the long run, famously, we are all bye bye. Where do we get to ride out the short run? In the sun? In the desert” Under a rock? To whom do we all bow? And how far? And do we do it prettily, with some mild awareness, with none, or are we happy for the chance to look for more and more odious masters? Or perfumed ones? All in the perception. Of course.
Two links on the state of today. Always the state of today.
Allan Sloan in Fortune.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/02/two-governors-two-parties-one-solution/
Michael Schuman in Time
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2059521_2059693_2059692,00.html

For the record……my about page
Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags news, political commentary, political drama, political fiction, politics, politics noir, power, writing on April 3, 2011 by B SchiffMy aim is erudition, awareness, cynicism, waste of nonsense. There is an abundance of the latter, a small smattering of the former. My heart goes with the nonsense…it is the more accessible and mundane, the honored creed. My gut goes with the former…..why not be a rancid bastard after all?
The books I am pushing…..
Dominance Games: An Essay on Power A Novel
Lust Games: An Essay on Honor A Novel
Void Games: An Essay on Revenge A Novel ….. coming this summer
information and availability: eBooks etc
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Print versions
Dominance Games: An Essay on Power A Novel
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1460916069/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
https://www.createspace.com/3563938
Lust Games: An essay on Honor A Novel
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1460925858/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.createspace.com/3565665
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SHEV74
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SHEX0Y
Erudition, awareness, cynicism, nonsense. The latter, the former. We get what we get. We see what we see. We stroke what we stroke.
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More insightful information and commentary will be forthcoming
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