Comments on: Where Should We Go Rather than Where We are Unavoidably Going from Here?

By: Orson Scott Card is Crazy | Stump Lane

Orson Scott Card is Crazy | Stump Lane — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:37:52 +0000

[...] As someone leaning towards the ‘no, the state shouldn’t go on’ end of the ‘what should we do about empire?’ spectrum, I don’t know why I would [...]

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:11:55 +0000

[...] Hint: check Stump Lane’s mission statement (courtesy philosopher Slavoj Žižek) for a vague idea of how to get a submission on the inside [...]

By: Fehlleistungen

Fehlleistungen — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:41:14 +0000

Try this Zizek piece on related topics: "Resistance is Surrender"

By: Quote of the Day | Neural Gourmet

Quote of the Day | Neural Gourmet — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:54:28 +0000

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By: Montag

Montag — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:20:07 +0000

MR Bill, you know full well your so-called “bank bailouts” would never have been necessary if all those deadbeats hadn’t lied about their income to get mortgages for artificially overpriced property they couldn’t afford!

This way, the Capitalists get the property (foreclosures) and their money (bailout) back. They aren’t called Capitalists for nothing!

By: MR Bill

MR Bill — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:20:11 +0000

It seems, after year of rightist propaganda, from the American Enterprise Institute and the phalanx of Total Capitalist opinion molders, that we as a country literally cannot think about alternatives or criticism to ‘Capitalism’.
Our lack of any alternatives has left in in a condition where incredibly anti-capitalist actions and intervention into the Market (I didn’t want to put ‘Free’ in quotes there) such as the recent Bank bailouts are not recognized generally as ‘not Capitalist’.
It’s sorta like Voltaire’s line about “If Satan should take the throne of God, he would have to assume the attributes of Deity”.
Socialism for the ‘Capitalists’ and everyone else is at the mercy of the Market.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:49:14 +0000

The difference between neo-Liberalism and neo-Conservatism is akin to the difference between stabbing someone in the heart or shooting them with a gun.

TI recognise the second group, but I wouldn’t like to think I entirely belong to it (though I very likely do – especially when it comes to moralising)

By: Montag

Montag — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:27:47 +0000

Hey, Frederick. I thought you guys from Area 51 might appreciate Žižek’s assessment of today’s left as consisting of conformist ‘Fukuyamaists,’ who stand for “…pragmatic social democracy—basically, Clinton here, Blair in the UK and so on…” and the “moralistic radical left, politically correct all the time,” and continues to say the groups “are like twin phenomena [where] the one is parasitic…”

As to the first group, I have expressed, albeit in internet graffiti, that I really have trouble spotting the difference between “Neo-Liberalism” and “Neo-Conservatism.”

As to the second group… well I have to admit to a certain amount of my own “abstract moralism,” but can’t we just chalk it up to the need to ask fundamental, tough questions and the attempt to fully understand the lessons of the past?

By: Frederick

Frederick — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:10:26 +0000

Is capitalism, something so widely pervasive that it colors every aspect of everything everywhere with it’s presence, is something so large and amorphous authoritarian? Certainly not sentient. Žižek hits on something here, “we accept all this.” That’s the bottom line.