[lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing

Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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.  

APB:

"Truth" is not a scalar, qualitative concept. It does not admit of degrees.
Whatever statements Eric made, they are either true or false. It's alot like
logical validity, rationality, pregnancy, and the matter of whether a whiskey
is a single malt or not.

In binary community,

Walter O.











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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