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April 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM #688679April 18, 2011 at 10:05 PM #687573
Allan from Fallbrook
Participant[quote=eavesdropper]
I missed out on most of this excellent Piggsfest, but feel compelled to add my two cents to the Upton Sinclair/Sinclair Lewis admiration expressed here (Allan, I should have know that there was a literary reason behind the fact that you make me hot.)
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Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.
April 18, 2011 at 10:05 PM #687631Participant[quote=eavesdropper]
I missed out on most of this excellent Piggsfest, but feel compelled to add my two cents to the Upton Sinclair/Sinclair Lewis admiration expressed here (Allan, I should have know that there was a literary reason behind the fact that you make me hot.)
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Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.
April 18, 2011 at 10:05 PM #688247Participant[quote=eavesdropper]
I missed out on most of this excellent Piggsfest, but feel compelled to add my two cents to the Upton Sinclair/Sinclair Lewis admiration expressed here (Allan, I should have know that there was a literary reason behind the fact that you make me hot.)
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Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.
April 18, 2011 at 10:05 PM #688390Participant[quote=eavesdropper]
I missed out on most of this excellent Piggsfest, but feel compelled to add my two cents to the Upton Sinclair/Sinclair Lewis admiration expressed here (Allan, I should have know that there was a literary reason behind the fact that you make me hot.)
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Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.
April 18, 2011 at 10:05 PM #688739Participant[quote=eavesdropper]
I missed out on most of this excellent Piggsfest, but feel compelled to add my two cents to the Upton Sinclair/Sinclair Lewis admiration expressed here (Allan, I should have know that there was a literary reason behind the fact that you make me hot.)
[/quote]
Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.
April 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM #687643eavesdropper
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
[/quote]Just lucky, I’m guessing?
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
[/quote]Allan, I’m disappointed. I would have expected someone with your savoir faire to have said it in French…
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.[/quote]
So true. But I wouldn’t count him out completely just yet. For all we know he may simply be taking time off for a sabbatical at the University of Virginia, immersing himself in their immense Thomas Jefferson collection (it’s no secret that he’s an esteemed Jeffersonian scholar.)
Or there’s the possibility that he’ll follow Sarah Palin to the Council on Foreign Relations for a year-long fellowship. And did I hear something on Twitter about a Rhodes scholarship?
As for my opinion on what the future holds for him, there’s no doubt in my mind……
Glenn Beck is John Galt.
April 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM #687701Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
[/quote]Just lucky, I’m guessing?
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
[/quote]Allan, I’m disappointed. I would have expected someone with your savoir faire to have said it in French…
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.[/quote]
So true. But I wouldn’t count him out completely just yet. For all we know he may simply be taking time off for a sabbatical at the University of Virginia, immersing himself in their immense Thomas Jefferson collection (it’s no secret that he’s an esteemed Jeffersonian scholar.)
Or there’s the possibility that he’ll follow Sarah Palin to the Council on Foreign Relations for a year-long fellowship. And did I hear something on Twitter about a Rhodes scholarship?
As for my opinion on what the future holds for him, there’s no doubt in my mind……
Glenn Beck is John Galt.
April 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM #688317Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
[/quote]Just lucky, I’m guessing?
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
[/quote]Allan, I’m disappointed. I would have expected someone with your savoir faire to have said it in French…
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.[/quote]
So true. But I wouldn’t count him out completely just yet. For all we know he may simply be taking time off for a sabbatical at the University of Virginia, immersing himself in their immense Thomas Jefferson collection (it’s no secret that he’s an esteemed Jeffersonian scholar.)
Or there’s the possibility that he’ll follow Sarah Palin to the Council on Foreign Relations for a year-long fellowship. And did I hear something on Twitter about a Rhodes scholarship?
As for my opinion on what the future holds for him, there’s no doubt in my mind……
Glenn Beck is John Galt.
April 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM #688459Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
[/quote]Just lucky, I’m guessing?
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
[/quote]Allan, I’m disappointed. I would have expected someone with your savoir faire to have said it in French…
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.[/quote]
So true. But I wouldn’t count him out completely just yet. For all we know he may simply be taking time off for a sabbatical at the University of Virginia, immersing himself in their immense Thomas Jefferson collection (it’s no secret that he’s an esteemed Jeffersonian scholar.)
Or there’s the possibility that he’ll follow Sarah Palin to the Council on Foreign Relations for a year-long fellowship. And did I hear something on Twitter about a Rhodes scholarship?
As for my opinion on what the future holds for him, there’s no doubt in my mind……
Glenn Beck is John Galt.
April 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM #688809Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Eaves: Why the hell am I always AWAY when you post stuff like this? Crap.
[/quote]Just lucky, I’m guessing?
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] Seriously, though, enjoyed your post. Funny how both Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”) and Sinclair Lewis (“It Can’t Happen Here”) both remain readable and relevant. The more things change, eh?
[/quote]Allan, I’m disappointed. I would have expected someone with your savoir faire to have said it in French…
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] As far as Beck goes: Go riddance to bad rubbish. Yeah, when you start making Limbaugh and Fox look moderate… Wow.[/quote]
So true. But I wouldn’t count him out completely just yet. For all we know he may simply be taking time off for a sabbatical at the University of Virginia, immersing himself in their immense Thomas Jefferson collection (it’s no secret that he’s an esteemed Jeffersonian scholar.)
Or there’s the possibility that he’ll follow Sarah Palin to the Council on Foreign Relations for a year-long fellowship. And did I hear something on Twitter about a Rhodes scholarship?
As for my opinion on what the future holds for him, there’s no doubt in my mind……
Glenn Beck is John Galt.
April 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM #687747briansd1
Guest[quote=Arraya]
I’m not pessimistic about the world. It’s this 18th century social organization devised by pre-science enlightenment philosophers and based on abstractions that we are running that I am pessimistic about. It’s past its shelf-life and starting to stink.Economics, is essentially politics wrapped in complex math to give it the veneer of scientific legitimacy. [/quote]
Arraya, I think that you’re far ahead our times.
The truth is that money makes the world go ’round. Money motivates people. Without it economic activity would slow down to a halt. And that would not be good for our standard of living.
As you suggested before, will some technology replace money? Not for a long time, IMHO.
I’ve said that, maybe one day, we’ll achieve a Star Trek like world where we work looking forward the the permission to enjoy the hollow deck.
April 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM #687804Guest[quote=Arraya]
I’m not pessimistic about the world. It’s this 18th century social organization devised by pre-science enlightenment philosophers and based on abstractions that we are running that I am pessimistic about. It’s past its shelf-life and starting to stink.Economics, is essentially politics wrapped in complex math to give it the veneer of scientific legitimacy. [/quote]
Arraya, I think that you’re far ahead our times.
The truth is that money makes the world go ’round. Money motivates people. Without it economic activity would slow down to a halt. And that would not be good for our standard of living.
As you suggested before, will some technology replace money? Not for a long time, IMHO.
I’ve said that, maybe one day, we’ll achieve a Star Trek like world where we work looking forward the the permission to enjoy the hollow deck.
April 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM #688423Guest[quote=Arraya]
I’m not pessimistic about the world. It’s this 18th century social organization devised by pre-science enlightenment philosophers and based on abstractions that we are running that I am pessimistic about. It’s past its shelf-life and starting to stink.Economics, is essentially politics wrapped in complex math to give it the veneer of scientific legitimacy. [/quote]
Arraya, I think that you’re far ahead our times.
The truth is that money makes the world go ’round. Money motivates people. Without it economic activity would slow down to a halt. And that would not be good for our standard of living.
As you suggested before, will some technology replace money? Not for a long time, IMHO.
I’ve said that, maybe one day, we’ll achieve a Star Trek like world where we work looking forward the the permission to enjoy the hollow deck.
April 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM #688564Guest[quote=Arraya]
I’m not pessimistic about the world. It’s this 18th century social organization devised by pre-science enlightenment philosophers and based on abstractions that we are running that I am pessimistic about. It’s past its shelf-life and starting to stink.Economics, is essentially politics wrapped in complex math to give it the veneer of scientific legitimacy. [/quote]
Arraya, I think that you’re far ahead our times.
The truth is that money makes the world go ’round. Money motivates people. Without it economic activity would slow down to a halt. And that would not be good for our standard of living.
As you suggested before, will some technology replace money? Not for a long time, IMHO.
I’ve said that, maybe one day, we’ll achieve a Star Trek like world where we work looking forward the the permission to enjoy the hollow deck.
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