[lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing

WO:
"Truth" is not a scalar, qualitative concept. It does not admit of degrees. 
Whatever statements Eric made, they are either true or false.
Ordinarily I would agree with you, but not when it comes to Eric's posts. He's both right and wrong, true and false almost every time. It's not his fault. It's the culture he lives in. He reads the goddamn Drudge Report for chrissake! Can you imagine? Of course he's confused! How could he not be? He has the glorious instincts of a liberal and the agonistic fears of a conservative. He's both brilliant and belligerent in the same breath. Eric is never either true or false, just as I am -- or am not -- I'm not sure what the linguistic construction should be here -- just let it be said that I am Eric in his Whitmanian contradictions. 



It's alot like
logical validity, rationality, pregnancy, and the matter of whether a whiskey 
is a single malt or not.
I've never experience logical validity, don't know the meaning of rationality -- something to do with WWII and food allotments? I understand pregnancy -- from a distance, thanks be to the male God who made us! Praise the Lord! Not an afficianado of whiskies. But Jack black is much better than Jim Beam, that I know to be the truth even if it's just opinion. 


Mike Geary
Memphis
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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:


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
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> >>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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