tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post4975447645206532646..comments2024-03-28T06:07:03.667-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: WHY I AM SO UPSETRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-50028420116987364382010-02-04T21:38:34.962-05:002010-02-04T21:38:34.962-05:00"Over the centuries, man has slaved to believ..."Over the centuries, man has slaved to believe, passing from dogma to dogma, illusion to illusion, and has given very little time to doubts, short intervals between his epochs of blindness. Indeed they were not doubts but pauses, moments of respite following the fatigue of faith, of any faith."<br /><br />--Emil Ciorandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040280749534044135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-22809180939294192562010-01-28T09:30:28.070-05:002010-01-28T09:30:28.070-05:00Robert, the Senate leadership failed because they ...Robert, the Senate leadership failed because they refuse to end the filibuster rule for everything but judicial appointments. Obama was not interested in doing what we wanted because he is marinated in University of Chicago economics department thinking. Our nation's leadership vacillates between smart and dumb bankers. Bush, McCain, Palin, et al are dumb bankers, and Obama and Clinton are smart bankers.<br /><br />That's all there is to it. My depression is simply rendering me numb to all this nonsense. Obama spoke words last night, but his deeds continue to speak louder. He fights for Bernanke, not a robust public option. He fights for giving money to bankers, and not for regular folks. He expands wars, but won't even fight for the federal government to be able to negotiate pricing for medications.Mitchell J. Freedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09999515428915501896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-83075522660574464912010-01-27T14:53:41.786-05:002010-01-27T14:53:41.786-05:00Here is the thing. You only live once, and I am n...Here is the thing. You only live once, and I am now seventy-six. For decades, I despaired of ever seeing America take a turn to the left. I allowed myself a modicum of rational hope a year ago, and I am loathe to give that up, since all that remains then is to perform what the Russian intelligentsia during the Stalin era called an "inner emigration." I cannot bring myself to do that, because my own personal material comfort, which would make it possible, stands in striking contrast to the great need of so many Americans, whose condition might perhaps be marginally improved by the efforts, however compromised, of people like me.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-22260214869756716662010-01-27T14:38:25.076-05:002010-01-27T14:38:25.076-05:00So is it possible that your intellectual critique ...So is it possible that your intellectual critique of the capitalist system is coming into conflict with your naturally optimistic personality? Is there room for a higher synthesis???? This is from a "dismal economist," who can't quite manage that herself.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02508381261535877414noreply@blogger.com