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before the thread gets too mired in some absurd non-discussion about whether ace is able to construct a coherent argument about art funding or distinguish art-events from other events, fact is that if the article is correct there really should be concerted action from the state to expand businesses or create jobs in order to bail out folk who are not those in the hedge fund and/or insurance sector.
it is curious--or would be in a sane place---that the interests of capital are so obviously held to be more important than those of working people and no-one gets too riled up about it. right, we say. capital flows are more important than human lives. it is far more important that we think about rates of shareholder return than it is that we think about how regular folk make a living.
you'd think populist conservatism would be a contradiction in terms. markets obviously do not take care of people, they obviously do not assure socially optimal allocations of resources or opportunities. never have. never will. that the right has been able to establish a political environment for its incoherent notions of taxation as persecution and/or the state as that which is responsible for irreationalities in economic affairs remains amazing to me. i think it is the residuum of this incoherent worldview that stands in the way of anything being done to help regular folk to find work.
the conservative response seems to be to pretend there is no problem. that's always the conservative response---except when it comes to finding reasons to militarize class relations.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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