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roachboy · 05-27-2010, 06:31 PM

i think i have a pretty good bead on how this disaster was possible.

and to tell the truth, alot of it is at the feet of the free marketeers, the neo-liberal set who put regulation in a position of introducing distortions into the otherwise fabulously efficient world dominated by the private sector and profit motives...all a crock of shit really...particularly when the "resource" or "raw material" of a capitalist production process involves myriad stakeholders--and this because the myopic logic of capitalism, with its abstractions and separations, makes it almost impossible for any given firm or sector to deal rationally with the commons absent some regulatory apparatus---which has to be proactive and aggressive as over against the conservative preference of reactive and passive.

i lay alot of the blame for the general conditions that enabled this disaster on the right's doorstep, from their contempt for environmental issues (drill baby drill) to their surreal, ridiculous economic ideology (see above) to the upside-down conception of regulation which is of a piece with it.

and i am beyond sick of conservative obsessing on news cycles as if dominating the next cycle is all that matters and the constant tweaking of the nitwit talking point of the moment around dominating the next news cycle---whence the pathetic, stupid calls for the federal government to swoop in and save everyone even though the entire regulatory apparatus puts the government in the position of having to wait until oil corporations take the initiative---which they never have to do if those corporations provide tickets to peach bowls and access to parties and promises of lucrative jobs in the future to the hopelessly corrupt and ineffectual people who occupy positions within the regulatory system, who are put there by conservatives who see regulation as ineffectual and corrupt anyway...so this is what you get when things go south.

so dont give me this nonsense that ace and i have anything to do with each other. people who think the way he does are responsible for the general conditions that enabled this fiasco in the first place--and now they have the gall to act all outraged because stuff the logic of the system **THEY SET UP** precludes from happening what they're calling for. it'd be hypocritical were most of these people not so fucking stupid.

meanwhile marshes are killed off and ecosystems wiped out and its all boo hoo....which is fine so long as the folk whose politics are responsible for the worst aspects of this disaster dont use the boo hoo to evade the fact of the matter, which is that its **your** way of seeing things that set this up and what you're seeing is the consequence of it, **your** way of seeing things...it's expression, it's result, what it leads to, what it is.

05-27-2010, 06:31 PM	#246 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	i think i have a pretty good bead on how this disaster was possible. and to tell the truth, alot of it is at the feet of the free marketeers, the neo-liberal set who put regulation in a position of introducing distortions into the otherwise fabulously efficient world dominated by the private sector and profit motives...all a crock of shit really...particularly when the "resource" or "raw material" of a capitalist production process involves myriad stakeholders--and this because the myopic logic of capitalism, with its abstractions and separations, makes it almost impossible for any given firm or sector to deal rationally with the commons absent some regulatory apparatus---which has to be proactive and aggressive as over against the conservative preference of reactive and passive. i lay alot of the blame for the general conditions that enabled this disaster on the right's doorstep, from their contempt for environmental issues (drill baby drill) to their surreal, ridiculous economic ideology (see above) to the upside-down conception of regulation which is of a piece with it. and i am beyond sick of conservative obsessing on news cycles as if dominating the next cycle is all that matters and the constant tweaking of the nitwit talking point of the moment around dominating the next news cycle---whence the pathetic, stupid calls for the federal government to swoop in and save everyone even though the entire regulatory apparatus puts the government in the position of having to wait until oil corporations take the initiative---which they never have to do if those corporations provide tickets to peach bowls and access to parties and promises of lucrative jobs in the future to the hopelessly corrupt and ineffectual people who occupy positions within the regulatory system, who are put there by conservatives who see regulation as ineffectual and corrupt anyway...so this is what you get when things go south. so dont give me this nonsense that ace and i have anything to do with each other. people who think the way he does are responsible for the general conditions that enabled this fiasco in the first place--and now they have the gall to act all outraged because stuff the logic of the system THEY SET UP precludes from happening what they're calling for. it'd be hypocritical were most of these people not so fucking stupid. meanwhile marshes are killed off and ecosystems wiped out and its all boo hoo....which is fine so long as the folk whose politics are responsible for the worst aspects of this disaster dont use the boo hoo to evade the fact of the matter, which is that its your way of seeing things that set this up and what you're seeing is the consequence of it, your way of seeing things...it's expression, it's result, what it leads to, what it is. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 05-27-2010 at 06:36 PM..