If the success is measured by apprehending suspects then it pays to be very suspicious – success is derived directly from the state of our paranoia. Paranoia leads directly to excellence and hence progress. But does it make us happy?
My world offends my eyes / bleary as an envelope cried-over / after the letter is lost – John Berryman –Love & Fame, 1974 p64
The economic advantage of marriage (or otherwise maintaining a household of two adult workers) is $2,000 per year. This is the amount that two household workers would save verus the cost of two individual workers in two different households by BEST calculations for “economic security”. The Basic Economic Security Tables include the costs for housing, food, utilities, health care, transportation and a modest level of savings for retirement and a little something tucked away for emergencies - a basic standard with no luxuries. It does not include homeownership or education - nor cable TV and tickets the ballpark. A single adult household needs to earn $30,000 a year while a two income earning adult household needs an income of $58,000 for the same basic standard of living (the difference between two adult workers in a single household and two adults workers in two households being $2,000).
Knowledge without illlusion is an illusion through and through; in which everything is lost, including knowledge. There is no myth more innocent than that of a knowledge innocent of myth – M Serres – La traduction
If words had meanings would it be impossible to say anything that was meaningless?
Structuralism… is conspicuous, for its indifference to structure – Vincent Descombes – Modern French Philosophy, 1980 p81
Do fish fish?
You bettcha, at least
The big uns do
What does a doggone dog
Tired dog do?
A cow is easily cowed
It is what the bull did
Sharks lend money
But it gets wet
THEFT: The egg sucking fox / licks his copper chops. / The shell cups / lie scattered from / the orange debauch. // It is honest / straight-forward theft - / unlike whatever cruel thing / steals ‘thought’ // the full weight left / and the locked room / still locked – Kay Ryan – The Best of it, 2010 p235
Whatever you think of News Corp’s politics – which isn’t today’s subject – you have to admire and respect what Murdock has accomplished on the business front – Allan Sloan – Fortune --- No I don’t – let’s change the wording a bit and see how it reads --- Whatever you think of “The Final Solution” – which is not today’s subject – you have to admire Hitler’s determination and efficiency in carrying it out.
The system filters out the thoughtful and replaces them with the faithful – John Dower – Cultures of War
Creativity ceases as uncertainty diminishes
My muse grew taller. Rejection slips developed signatures – John Berryman –Love & Fame, 1974 p10
For-profit colleges account for 11% of all college students but for 43% of all federal student loan defaults. The largest for-profit institution, the University of Phoenix, only graduates less than 10% of its students within a ten-year period.
Education is successful when the student identifies with social and cultural authorities – Stanley Aronowitz – The Knowledge Factory, 2000 p1
Sleeper cells metastasis
These are very sick people
A surgical strike is necessary
Chemotherapy derives from mustard gas
A debridement via bomb
We must cleanse our body
Politic – rid it
Of its residual
Poisons
We will all die & the evidence / is: nothing after that. / Honey we don’t rejoin. / The thing meanwhile, I suppose, is to be courageous & kind – John Berryman –Love & Fame, 1974 p55
A war on terror is a war of terror
The war to end all wars is the war
Of all wars
Saddham Hussain had proclaimed it
The mother of all battles
The mother of all mother fuckers
The mother of all mother fuckers
Yeats, Yeats, I’m coming! It’s me / … I haven’t quite got the hang of the stuff yet / but I swamp with possibility – John Berryman –Love & Fame, 1974 p35
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