The tale you’re supposed to take to is the elitist one. And yet you do not know who is the elect only that you are not and part of the story is that you could be but you are not yet. Faith! You must have faith. Faith must precede everything else. Give up faith and the story will never come true. Hold to you faith that you can be rich and powerful too!
No social line divides productive from unproductive workers – Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri – Multitude: war and democracy in the age of empire, 2004 p135
We are, therefore I think
And thus up and down the ladder, like the hierarchy of angels under the Almighty’s Heavenly Throne. And that was why the Empire was Holy, said my father. It was God’s State on earth… It was an idea and an ideal; an ordered image of the world, of human society striving to make God’s will come true – Gregor Von Rezzori –Memoirs of an Anti-Semite p201
Wild hogs do some $400 million in damage annualyl in Texas. There are as many as 6 million wild hogs in at least 39 states. Their populations were nurtured. Hogs were captured and released into new areas because hunters found them ‘challenging’. Eradication is no longer possible. Hogs, wild or otherwise swine are not native to the Americas. There is no pig hunting season and no limit. You can even hunt them from the air. The more they are hunted the wilier they get.
Man is noble, man is brave / But man’s a weed – Herman Melville – Battle-pieces and Aspect of the War, 2001 –p133
A man is only as good
As his tool
Fix it. Make it right
Your fee shall be its own
Reward
Vote for the party
Of your choice
Wherever men gather
They seek frictionless
Opportunities
Dosed soliciously with
Alcohol
Everyone talks to the seller
It sold! For how much?
How long was it
On the market
Success garners envey
And it is good
So sayeth the Lord
But greed is better
Cultural studies played into the hands of cultural capitalism – Francois Cusset – French Theory, 2008 p137
There are two traditions in literature – the canonical which comprises 99% of all books and the other tradition that wends its way through various misfits, misanthropes and criminals who constitutionally are incapable of resigning themselves to the social contract. Authors of this later tradition write only to voice a sense of alienation from themselves, from their peers and from their place in history. Only the latter literature is worth the time unless it it time you're trying to kill. It is only from these writers that we learn, if growth and development is what it is all about. Why did we spend so many years in school if not to learn out to learn? Oh, to qualify for a job, you say. It gain a higher income, you say. Yes, to be conventional that would be it and as for you - then yes, you should stick to the cannonical.
The aim of implacable categorizing is not just to map the intellectual territories; taxonomies [need] never be static. Often the point is precisely for one category to subvert the others … [one can] offer classifications to keep maters open – to reserve a place for the uncodified, the enchanted, the intractable, the histrionic – Susan Sontag – Where the Stress Falls, 2001 p68
Liberalism is a set of principles that arose with capitalism to protect among other things private property from the state. The liberty to buy and sell property and the right to invest for profit is its fundamental tenet.
The simple notions are always the most difficult – Oswald Spangler – The Decline of the West, 1965 p61
Even educators cynical of their role must subscribe to the ‘knowledges’ or force their students onto the job market on unfavorable terms
Orphaned pieties overheat sometimes – Susan Sontag – Where the Stress Falls, 2001 p61
Neoliberalism is not inconsistent with Neoconservatism – in fact they are complimentary
The world-fear is stilled when an intellectual form-language hammers out brazen vessels in which the mysterious is captured and made comprehensible… by this symbolizing of extension of space or of things – Oswald Spangler – The Decline of the West, 1965 p60
Do you love me?
Yes, she said that she did
But still she wouldn’t
I thought there still
Might be a burning chance
But every time I got hot
Her fire alarm went off
[To] focus on the message for its one sake is the ‘poetic’ function of language – R Jakobson –Linguistics and Poetics, 1958
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