This interminable restlessness, this subjugation of will to a game of chicken, extends into abject failure. The game no longer achieves honor, no longer demonstrates an untemperable spirit. Rather, the player plays its role conspicuously as a masked coward, so obviously pained to bear out a strength it can’t muster, though the audience [...]
And We Need It To Stay Out There
Seen monsters aren’t monsters. They’re neighbors, however temporary. Monsters are guerilla, unseen, opportunistic. They stay shrouded in potential. Where Lorentz had it for relativistic contraction based on inertial frames, these things enjoy a distortion wrought from awareness frames.
This is why we still delight in [...]
I’m rather depressed these days. It’s been years since anything I’ve done has turned out successfully — with a few rare exceptions — and I’m falling into the thing which afflicted you a couple of years ago — a failure of the will, shall we say. My ambitions seem far beyond my talents, and light-years [...]
Home ownership is “most stable financial investment”
→ everyone wants to buy a home, independent of his debt/income ratio
→ opportunistic (Capitalistic) lenders create loan packages so anyone, independent of his debt/income ratio, can buy a home
→ increased default rate affects solubility of large players in commercial paper markets
→ Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and other [...]
This Is Not Your Father’s Mishap
I’ve been watching debates and speeches and soundbites and videobites and reality bites. I’ve kept my ear to the grindstone, my eyes on the prize. I’m confused.
Any system as large as the U.S. economy, let alone an international economy, cannot be encapsulated in a two-hour series of rhetorical [...]
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