Saturday, October 11, 2008
Atonement
by
M. Bouffant
at
14:44
We took two days off, & we had nothing for which to atone, we're just lazy & tired. Not enough atonement seems to have occurred, however. We were hoping that some of those responsible for setting up the global financial system/melt-down would perform some newspaper-style atonement, w/ a bullet to the temple, or roof of the mouth, but there being neither guilt nor shame any longer, that was probably a bit much to expect.
Nonetheless, everything appears to be headed to hell in a hand basket. It would be hard to fully express the unbelievable schadenfreude we're experiencing in this part of the global melt-down. One of the many positive results we hope for from this mess is a moratorium on statements of any kind issuing from the mouths of the free-market anarchists & terrorists, now that their alleged system has fallen apart before our very eyes. Many of them still refuse to admit there's something wrong w/ a system built on nothing but confidence (as in "con man") having been distracted by the socialist takeover the Bush administration is threatening. These should be the first to be relieved of their life savings, retirement funds & whatnot, in the name of the free market & paying for the bad choices they've made.
And once they're on the streets where their bad judgment has correctly placed them, we hope that at least a few of them suffer the same kind of horrible death as this homeless man in Los Angeles. Ah, AmeriKKKa, the special country, the exceptional country. AmeriKKKans are good. They don't want to hurt people, they're in Iraq & Afghanistan to help people. There's no history of horrid violence in AmeriKKKa. Shining city on a hill. Hill of shit & dead bodies.
Labels:
Consumption,
Corporations,
Glibertarianism,
Nihilism,
Schadenfreude,
The Dialectic
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2 comments:
It's official, Bouff. An article in the New York Review of Books says that "the era of Reagan and Thatcher is over". I think the "free market" idiocies spouted by Friedman and Hayek, and taken up by millions of the faithful, have indeed taken a trouncing lately. I think even the most thick-headed (well, maybe not that guy in the McCain rally in Wisconsin who complained about the socialist takeover) have gotten the message that markets cannot be depended upon to regulate themselves.
P.
From The Financial Desk:
"But, but *spffle-hmph*! Ahem. This is – this...it's all the result of over-regulation, except there wasn't enough regulatin' on those two outfits w/ the funny girly names that Barney Frank worked for...um..."
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