Foolish Game
david graeber dec 2018
Financial Eyes
David Graeber on Value and Values fetishism. “value and values, fetishism” “At this point on can return to the question of value versus values; that is, economic price-mechanisms versus the kind of “conceptions of the desirable” described by Kluckhohn: honor, purity, beauty, and the like. I’ve already noted that the latter tend to take on importance either in societies without a commercial market (e.g., the Kayapo) or, as in ours, in those contexts (church, home, museum. . .) relatively insulated from it. According to Turner (1984:56-58), both really are refractions of the same thing; to understand the differences, one has first of all to consider what they are being refracted through. That is, one has to consider the nature of the media through which social value is realized. The key question is the degree to which value can, as it were, be “stored”. Here money represents one logical extreme. Money is a durable physical object that can be stored, moved about, kept on reserve, taken from one context to another.31 At the other extreme, one has performances like chiefly chanting, the deferential behavior of subordinates, and so on. A performance is obviously not something that can be stored and “consumed” later on. Hence, as he puts it, there can be no distinction here between the spheres of circulation, and realization. Both have to happen in the same place.” This is a quite brilliant essay/book from 2005 starting with an analysis of why Kerry Lost to Bush in 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20051013071527/http://www.commoner.org.uk/10graeber.pdf The Political Metaphysics of Stupidity Consider the intelligence of the average American. Then consider the fact that half of them aren’t even that smart. —Mark Twain As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. —H.L. Mencken Graeber is the Author of the Classic Debt the first 5000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
Regarding Value destruction Tim Graebers piece in the Commoner is essential reading.
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Roger and Ranjann Discuss
Bromides as Allogeries of Suppressed Self Interest. #Sraffa, #Wittgenstein, and #Gramsci
Bromide.
Bromide suicide afternoon tea
commonplace chattering a twattering banality.
Watch your step, watch the news
The Attitude platitude
Stay at home, Save Lives Protect the NHS
cliche
Sylogism, any ism wrapped up in
truism
Self censor, servetude
stereotype that old chestnut
Forget the Palliative Vaccinate
sedative
Seperate, compartmentalise, Water tightness
triteness
Branching out wood from trees
saw
“Well, God has arrived. I met him on the
5:15 train.”
He felt
“like a tree from which
all branches have been cut.”
Unseen Adage Lost proverb
Failed Maxim Forgotten Aphorism
Overlooked Byword Missed Saying
Concealed Motto Neglected Dictum
Cancelled Epigram Ignored Axiom.
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Will the tory’s Fatten the wrong pig again? David davis should be the interim PM #AllFleshisGrass
MP Kevin Brennan talks about the cross party band he plays in and how it helps his views on life
MP4 – Album Launch – Don’t Look Back In Anger
Kevin Brennan Preceding Incitatus #FatteningtheGoldenCalf #Fatteningthewrongpig
David Davis for Interim PM #AllFleshisGrass
2005 Conservative Candidates debate, David Cameron and David Davis
MP4: Cross Party Album Launch (BBC London News, 18/03/2010)
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown discuss British Labour Party in 1993
18:33
you have very high health care cost
18:35
higher than ours and the reason also I
18:38
suspect is that that some treatments are
18:40
prescribed to people for commercial
18:42
reasons when in Britain that the test
18:44
really is what is the need and what is
18:46
the medical reason for doing something
Aired 04.01.1993
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Go Away MP4
#FATTENINGTHEGOLDENCALF OR #FATTENINGTHEWRONGPIG RANJAN AND ROG DISUSS NO10 PANTOMIME
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4_(band)
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o’er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer’s distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty’s legacy?
Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
Which, used, lives th’ executor to be.
Going Direct Paradigm
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Two brains are better than one- the Going Direct Paradigm and Tragedy and Hope
FreeTrade Vs Free Markets. The Camera Obscura of the Elite Propaganda discombobulation.
The driving motivation behind the accelerated rush to a Techno Fascist Feudalism has been occupying my mind for the years leading up to the Repo Spike in New York in September 2019.
In the Financialised economy and with the CBDC push tied to DIgital Id’s, we see a symptom of the appearance of what the system is trying to preserve, namely itself and its Monopoly ingroup. The real Economy is put in the position of trying to make bricks without straw, a misallocation of resources, and the Credit tokens to acquire those resources.
The Dominant Resource tieing the Financial system’s real potentials to the Real potentials of the real economy is the Flow of Energy resources and Primary resources through the economy. It would seem that a Hard limit on available energy to sustain the present industrial output of the global economy has been hit, what seems inexplicable is the Priorities touted in narratives regarding Why our largest Energy Sources the Hydro Carbons, Gas, Oil and Coal, and the largest potential replacement for them Nuclear are being demonised? It is more properly described as being stood down, why? Climate Change, The Climate Crisis, The Plague of Humans (1).
The Ten Commandments golden calf scene.
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