They are the masters of mirth, the procurers of entertainment, the light show, the tinder box. They are the answer to questions not asked, the question to answers not given. They appear and disappear at will, the phantasms of dimension, the spines of the spineless. They endure mightily as they are endurable. They are smart and free thinking rotted plants.
The come to tell us that they are special, that they think, act, feel, maim. They promise to promise. They promise to spew. They are too damned base and too damned foolish.
Mean well. Do well. Be well. Be of hard scrabble worth and abundant luminescence. Have voice, privilege, a mound of dirt and a pile of rubble upon which to speak. Represent. They represent. They are the strong special grifters who grift well with rocks and stones. Ones of a kind. Cream rising to the top. The bats in the belfry.
Into nether world jobs they go. Whistling and skipping and wailing and scheming, swords of mighty justice they are. The usual exchangeable parts who fit the slots and make noxious noise they are. Hordes of independence, realism and thinkers, seers and lemmings swooning gracefully. Good seering hacks can enjoy the laughter of achievement and ritual, attainment and lobotomy, speciousness and tripe.
Go along, get along. Be of the flow. Offer steam and fall no more. Great movements mean dead brains. Why talk when nothing said means a damned thing. All show all the time. The virtue in the weak sisters and the hairy apes. Do any of the rank prancers have the worth to be other than weak dittos? Love all the damned candidates all the damned time.
Bloomberg Businessweek Drake Bennett
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_23/b4231006685629.htm
The Hill Erik Wasson
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/163385-frustrated-deficit-hawk-rips-norquist
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Dominance Games: Dominance Games: Prior to sinking the ships of state
Posted in Commentary, current events, News, opinion, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags Big government, Commentary, current events, Democracy, Executive (government), Government, opinion, political commentary, politics, politics noir, power, Public interest, Righteousness, social criticism, Unintended consequences, writing on May 28, 2011 by B SchiffFor viewing pleasure there are always the perfect villains and perfect fools of the corridors of power using the levers that they hold in order to work things out in ways workable. Checks and balances work in so far as there is the ability to execute. Laws, after all, are just means to direct the execution of the power of the state. With the governed increasingly unwilling to abide by the sanctions of the state directions lead to one of two outcomes. Either a tightening of force or the grip of the powerful or the fragmentation of power without cohesive structure or finely tuned apparatus to enforce unknowable rules and standards.
The games may be different in different places and systems but the principle is the same. No agreement on an umbrella political structure gives way to the savageries of power plays and power grabs. Corruption is not corruption. It becomes the order of disorder with, in the extremes , the order of death.
Fragmented views of society are wished for by those in opposition to the order that is. Push too far and hoped for new orders become no order what so ever. Allegiances to cohesion are hard allegiances when corrupting power wanes out of control. Allegiances to fraction and divisiveness are not attractive measures when they invite a broken world without recourse to fixing. A non lethal state can be mended best from within. A lethal state invites the danger of getting better or worse.
Firebrands would do well to judge the level of real toxicity prior to sinking their ships of state. Puzzlers ponder answers, define not questions. The powers of those in the catbirds seat always trump rage and rant.
The self interest of the fears and cries of the put upon is dear. Perceptions are often eternally skewed. Perceptions of power bases are often eternally skewed. Readings of power bases are often eternally flawed.
In the rush to build government, the rush to build equity, firmness grabs often by the short hairs. Whom gets whom by them, the short hairs? The world is the world of unintended consequence. Who rages for these, the unintended consequence? Those who risk too much for too little or those who risk too little for too much. Lasting fancy and gifts from the devil make martyrs out of the righteous. The righteous put much good in play and much good in jeopardy. Judgement is a hard to come by commodity. Laws may be a sham. Too much fracture and the trust of the populace is lost. Too little and is is co-opted.
From Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-the-executive-unbound-by-eric-a-posner-and-adrian-vermeule.html?scp=1&sq=The%20Executive%20Unbound%20-%20By%20Eric%20A.%20Posner%20and%20Adrian%20Vermeule%20.&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/Giry-t.html?scp=5&sq=parag%20khanna&st=cse
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