tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post5682865508759663863..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Putting Lipstick On a Neoliberal PigKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-71136416028573953872018-11-04T12:37:36.996-05:002018-11-04T12:37:36.996-05:00Hi Bill
"What can you offer that's a sol...Hi Bill<br /><br />"What can you offer that's a solution to the many neoliberal hipocracies you do shine a light on?"<br /><br />Not sure what your point is. Got time to clarify?<br /><br />As I see it, Sardonicky is a salon where happenings in politics, media and culture are given a hard second look, the scribbling around here often salted with irony and mockery.<br /><br />Sardonicky is not a think tank. It doesn't hammer out solutions for legislators, judges or executives. It addresses the victims of such elites and suggests alternatives to views offered by the MSM. That's where its task and value lie. <br /><br />For solutions plus action, you'll have to go down the hall to unions, political parties or institutions like Doctors Without Borders or Nader's Raiders. <br /><br />Alternatively, a few of the lesser breed of behind-the-front-line organizations offering suspect solutions and opening doors to misguided action were just outed in Karen's essay, above. Now THAT is a public service.<br /><br />From what little I have read by Alan Watts, humans amount to much more than a purposeless bundle of tubes. In his estimation, humans are at least points of energy (with a degree of agency) connected to larger systems of energy (brains, rivers, oceans, galaxies, the great big universe) upon which he prefers to dwell. <br />https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/the-illusion-of-self-other-alan-watts/<br /><br />He paints the pantheist's big picture over and over. In near time and closer to home, what do we wee reflections of the sun do Tuesday morning and why?<br />Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-22980590177170084392018-11-04T07:39:45.352-05:002018-11-04T07:39:45.352-05:00Well, as always, you've written many true thin...Well, as always, you've written many true things. What can you offer that's a solution to the many neoliberal hipocracies you do shine a light on? Toilet paper is not valid. As Watts said many years ago: we are food processing tubes. Everyone wipes. At least I presume they do. <br /><br />I myself didn't vote for Sanders, or Trump, or HRC, or Jill Stein. I will vote in the midterms. As if that makes any difference.Bill Spraguenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-35621177041083010612018-11-03T17:24:55.241-04:002018-11-03T17:24:55.241-04:00Names, statistics and exposure––I love it.
But I&...Names, statistics and exposure––I love it.<br /><br />But I'll never remember the names of all those neolib and neocon scammers with their pundits, institutions, publications and movements. We need a handy reference list, kept up-to-date. How about a scamroll to match our blogroll?<br /><br />Don't censor the frauds; just post their names on a billboard. From this essay alone, here are the beginnings of a scamroll. It's a list, not of the known bads or the known goods, but of the somewhat shadowy phonies between those two poles. Add or subtract to the scamroll as the times warrant. Might be another attraction of Sardonicky to help us steer clear of the polcons.<br /><br />Abernethy, Robert<br />Aspen Institute<br />Atlantic Council<br />Barnes, Melody<br />Budinger, William<br />Center for American Progress (CAP)<br />Clinton(s)<br />Daily Beast<br />Democracy: A Journal of Ideas<br />Diller, Barry<br />Duncan, Arne<br />Hanauer, Nick <br />InterActiveCorp (IAC)<br />Liu, Eric<br />New York Times<br />NextGen<br />Obama(s)<br />Organizing for America<br />Rodell Foundation<br />Slaughter, Anne-Marie<br />Steyer, Tom<br />Tomasky, Michael<br />Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-15709016477563646922018-11-03T15:06:06.528-04:002018-11-03T15:06:06.528-04:00Dam Karen,
Beautiful essay/rant on the current sta...Dam Karen,<br />Beautiful essay/rant on the current state of thingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com