Mickey Z
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Philosopher of the Day: Thomas Petty
...Don’t get fooled again…
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss…Posted by Tommy on from I live by the River 01/08 at 11:41 AMMy philosopher for today and everyday is Erich Fromm. Neil Clark recently wrote in the Guardian that Fromm’s ideal character type, discouraged in society today, is the mature “productive character”, the person without a mask, who loves and creates, and for whom being is more important than having. http://tinyurl.com/2fu2sg
How can we live without our masks today? It is not easy. You may get on a Homeland Security watch list-- you may even worry about how your own honesty will impact the ones that you love. All my heros are those who manage somehow to live without a mask: Ralph Nader is one without doubt-- he is fearless and does not seem to really care about “his legacy” or reputation while he continues to plod forward always trying to accomplish being productive in the “now”.
Politics is his way-- but there are others who do what they can when they can. Maybe it is something as simple as giving a kind smile to someone who needs it. More about Fromm: http://tinyurl.com/yrvsybPosted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 01/08 at 12:01 PMTom Petty...one of the greats.
“Well the good old days may not return
And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn.” “Learning To Fly”Philosophes of the Day:
“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, ‘here and now’ without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.” Jose Ortega y Gasset“All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars”
- Neil Peart, from “The Pass”“I left my doctor’s prescription bungalow behind me
I left the door ajar
I left my vacuum flask
Full of hot tea and sugar
Left the keys right in my car”
- The Who, “Slip Kid”Happy new year to all the Expendables.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 01/08 at 01:03 PMMy favorite philosopher? Optimus Prime.
“Freedom is the right of all sentient Beings.”
PRIME/GRIMLOCK IN 2008!
Posted by Dan Coyle on from 01/08 at 03:46 PMOK...for just one moment in time, I will be my favorite philosopher. RMJ says, “I think, therefore maybe I am - or maybe I am not”. This expresses my agnostic feelings about just about everything.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 01/08 at 05:01 PM‘Even the losers get lucky sometimes’ - there’s a comforting thought from Mr Petty. As always - great quotes, Mickey! And one finds interesting links among comments by expendables. Hi Tommy, Robert B. Livingston, Zen Prole, Dan Coyle and Rosemarie from a quite warm Daylesford - tomorrow is going to be another 104F day but today it is ‘only’ 90 or so.
And a Happy New Year!
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 01/08 at 09:33 PM“When I say that language is limited in certain respects it should be understood that while information may be evident, knowledge is not necessarily obvious.”
Miyamoto Musashi, Book of Five Rings
(Kaufmann translation, Tuttle 1994)Posted by Andy on from Shanghai 01/08 at 11:26 PMHey everyone, I was randomly checking out the NYT site, and look at this latest oped from the bastion of the liberal media:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/opinion/09dunlap.htmlThis is either really creepy and chilling, or I just don’t understand what he’s trying to say. I’m hoping it’s the latter case.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 01/09 at 11:04 AMJames, Maj Gen Dunlap is a pale imitation of Buck Turgidson, but the article is also a hodgepodge of imperial dirty diapers - the Rumsfeld doctrine of even more capital-intensive warfare coupled with the insistence that the body counts are lookin’ great. “The outnumbered insurgency” has to be one of the great punch lines of the new year. Check your “starry-eyed enthusiasm” and make way for the professionals!
Thhhppt.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 01/09 at 12:26 PMJames...thanks for the link. That seems to be the general consensus of opinion - bigger and better weapons. Is it Obama who wants to increase the military by 100,000?
Hi Zen, Andy, Helga, Dan, Tommy, Mickey, Robert, and all....Looks like the New Hampshire voters gave a big win to the insurance companies and the weapons manufacturers.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 01/09 at 02:10 PMHello Expendables. Just stopping by to say hello and share this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpwPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/09 at 03:06 PMNo masks on the normal guy! Maybe a few masks are not so bad after all.
Dedicated to our hero, Mickey Z:
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 01/09 at 08:28 PM...and which presidential candidate made this statement?
The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, surveying the data on contemporary hunter-gatherers, exploded the Hobbesian myth in an article entitled “The Original Affluent Society.” They work a lot less than we do, and their work is hard to distinguish from what we regard as play. Sahlins concluded that “hunters and gatherers work less than we do; and, rather than a continuous travail, the food quest is intermittent, leisure abundant, and there is a greater amount of sleep in the daytime per capita per year than in any other condition of society.” They worked an average of four hours a day, assuming they were “working” at all.
Posted by joe of maine on from 01/09 at 08:51 PMLet’s give Norway and Amerikka a huge round of applause for their gift giving to Maine citizens.
Vingtech, a subsidiary of the Norwegian weapons equipment manufacturing company Simrad Optronics would be opening a manufacturing plant and its U.S. Headquarters in Biddeford, Maine tomorrow morning. Simrad Optronics sells weapons to over 40 countries.
This is a wonderful gesture guaranteeing sweatshop wages, harmonious worker-management relations and a brighter future for war. Even the name VingTech carries a sound of pleasant vibrations and warmth.
Posted by joe of maine on from 01/10 at 07:32 AM
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