[lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:49:12 -0700 (PDT)
In other words, laws are unnecessary. If someone robs someone, or millions of
someones, then heck, he'll get his in the end anyway, so why waste time
pursuing it through the legal system? What's the difference between what these
people did and the bank robbers of the 30's except that today they stole a lot
more money. Do you think Bonnie and Clyde should have been left alone to do
whatever they wanted?
I don't fret for the future. On some level I agree with Richard
Heinberg.. Running out of cheap oil will be devastating for humanity, to say
the least, but boy does the natural world need the respite it will get from
humans no longer having oil to play with. Likewise banking. We desperately
need to revert back to simpler living, but if we wind up with a 30's style
Depression (perhaps termed "The Great Correction"), with massive numbers of
people out of work, do you have any idea what that will look like? Just think
through what happens when massive numbers of people are out of work looking for
food and shelter they can no longer pay for and governments have no ability to
help. States are already running out of money and of course the U.S. as a
country is completely broke. And all the while we say, oh you guys on Wall
Street you're so cute. Keep your salaries and run along and play and those you
robbed of their ability to survive will
wait for poetic justice to happen. But, we'll kill billions of innocent
people in retribution for a handful of fanatics flying into buildings. Is
there something not quite right with this picture?
--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 5:18 AM
>>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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