[lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing

Willing to travel out of town?  Like to Missouri?

oh well.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> EY:
>
>> We all get what we deserve in time, namely being ourselves
>>
>
> Yes.  This is one of the truest things that Eric has ever written that I've
> read.  After all is said and done, we are what we've done. That is to say,
> we are how we behave.  I agree.  It's interesting to watch people in
> progress (i.e., those under sixty-three) grapple with moral-social questions
> as if there really is an answer out there beyond their own indoctrination,
> impulses and imagination.
>
> Yet here I am closing in quickly on 65 and still childish enough to believe
> that Obama will matter, at least for my children and grandchildren (btw,
> three days ago I was presented with another grandchild -- everything's going
> grandly, thank you.  Photos to follow).  Like fretful Irene, I fret over the
> future for my grandkids.  All the while I should be fretting over the
> present of me.  Business has slowed.  Anyone need some HVAC/R work?  Or
> carpentry.  Or electrical?  Or plumbing?  Or yard work?? -- anything but
> computers -- call me.
>
>
> Mike Geary
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:18 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing
>
>
>  >>why aren't you outraged that the people who messed
>> up so seriously, the CEO's and hedge fund managers and others, are not
>> only not being fired or sent to prison, but they're given the 700 billion to
>> gamble away?
>>
>>
>> The spa trip of the bailed-out money crunchers bothered me. (Even Bush
>> denounced it.) It's also easy to imagine all these "celebrity CEOs" and
>> money mavens hanging from lamp posts in every town and village. In fact, the
>> sudden rise of CEOs American style -- was it Lee Iaccoca who started it? --
>> always bothered me.
>>
>> It offends me because it announces a de facto aristocracy in a country
>> that had historically freed itself from the paradigm of inherited
>> aristocracy in favor of what Jefferson dreamed of as "natural aristocracy."
>>
>> Yeah lamp posts ... $3,000 dollar shoes swinging in the wind. Crows coming
>> to peck cold eyes ... distended tongues flapping from expensive
>> orthodontics.
>>
>> Then I stop.
>>
>> I realize "the other side" (ha-ha!) is using that demotic sense of class
>> envy to promote their own ascendancy to more and more power.
>>
>> I realize that, as a hintergedanke, in the back of my mind, is envy. Just
>> envy. The ugly face of envy. An imaginary envy too, envy foisted on me,
>> since I never craved wealth or power in my own life. Have I ever wanted a
>> job in management? No. Have I ever tried to become a captain of industry but
>> was rebuffed? No. Have I pursued any of the things to which these executives
>> have devoted their lives? No. Will their suffering improve the world? No. Do
>> I want to spend whatever time remains of my life in pursuit of such goods?
>> No.
>>
>> So I take the crooked execs down from their lamp posts. Revive the lynched
>> beau monde. Pull apart the barricades and quit the rampage. The status
>> anxiety abates.
>>
>> We all get what we deserve in time, namely being ourselves.
>>
>> Serving time,
>> Eric
>>
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