Still more quotations with links

“…the fundamental structure of a market economy–reliable information.”–David Mulholland

“…you do not win ARGUMENTS against Fascists, you must win WARS against them.”–Woody

“You either want a single-payer system in this country [Canada] or you want an American-style system. And don’t kid yourself that there’s anything in between.”–Shirley Douglas

“To all the precarious workers, both natives and migrants, men and women. To the contortionists of flexibility and the acrobats of everyday life. To the temporary workers and contractors, …”–Mayday Milan Call

“It’s a very uniting thing to see different people from the same generation working their 9-to-5 placeholder gigs, waiting for their real lives to begin.” ~ Joe Reid

“Among other things, the Terms and Conditions forbid the practice of science (e.g. trying to understand how a program works, its underlying operational principles, etc.).”–Steve Mann

“The worker who takes home the paycheck and typically buys “toys” and has a commute is contributing to global ecocide and corporate domination. It’s almost counter-intuitive that a non-worker or welfare recipient is living as the better planetary citizen, even if by happenstance.”–Jan Lundberg

“When we complain about the targeted market junk mail we receive because someone has discovered personal information about us, it is like complaining about the bad smell from our gas stove, rather than complaining about the fact that our stove is leaking.”–Steve Mann

“Ecological economics pioneer Robert Costanza likens conventional economics to a bucket full of water that’s ready to tip. All it needs is one sharp jolt. So, let’s kick it over”–adbusters

“If Oliver Twist has no money to buy a crust of bread, his zero allotment is ‘efficient.’”–Max Sawicky

“If capitalists are not happy with things, they make it clear that it
is their ball and unless you follow their rules they are
taking their ball home and then no one can play.”–Eric Nilsson

“We need to go beyond market freedom into human freedom.”–Anarcho

“It’s hard to be functional when you have to spend all your time and energy focusing on making eye contact and not tapping your feet…”–Jennifer McIlwee Myers

“…the problem with pounding a square peg in a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you are destroying the peg.”–Paul Collins

“All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.”–Aristotle

“Where the Danes provide their unemployed with up to 80 percent of their previous salary and the Germans provide them with 60 percent, America has deregulated the rich while throwing a growing portion of its working class in jail.”–Daniel Lazare

“Whereas the common modern word for labour, work and worker in the Latin based languages like French, Spanish, Italian, etc. is trabajo and travail (from the Latin tripalium, or ‘instrument of torture’)”–Michael Seidman

“information wants to be free and the resolution wants to be high.”–Ryan Singel

Meme

Via Le Colonel Chabert by way of love and terrorism.

– Grab the nearest book.

– Open the book to page 123.

– Find the fifth sentence.

– Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

– Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

‘The details of the following script are implementation-dependent.’ (from ‘Common LISP: The Reference’, Franz Inc., 1988, Addison-Wesley’)

“Money is about power, about testosterone.”–Helen Caldecott, on The Time is Now

“…in America, the study of economic history was killed off with the Intellectual, the Social Activist, and the Teacher.”–Stephen T. Ziliak

“Government is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.”–The late Frank Zappa, quoted by litbrit

“In the end, economic growth is, in more than a metaphoric sense, the largest pyramid scheme possible.”–Mark Meritt quoted in Growth is Madness

“The human species was not born into a market economy.”–Eliezer Yudkowsky

debt=indenture

“Class warfare is being waged in America and the wrong side is winning.”- Bernie Sanders, In These Times

“There is no God but the logical structure of the universe, and Mohammed is not his prophet. “–Johnny Red

“Unless we establish an economic system that does not rely on expropriation and exploitation, no amount of aid or trade is going to end world poverty. It is worse than naïve; it is a deception to argue that it might.”–Molly Scott Cato

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”–Andy Warhol

“Where there is a monopoly the consumer is, of course, helpless, and where there is competition he is almost entirely at the mercy of advertising.”–Walter Lippman, Drift and Mastery, 1914, quoted in Flagrancy to Reason

If your heart is free, the ground you’re standing on is liberated territory. So Defend It!–anarcha

As bad as a “Mommy State” is, the idea of a “Daddy State” is infinitely more terrifying.–Jason McBrayer

“Capitalism is a system of pimps and whores. You are either a pimp, whore or a little of both.”–Graeme

“For every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.”–Albert A. Bartlett

“Market capitalism is a restless system of experimentation in pursuit of sustainable rents based on private knowledge.”–John Nightingale and Jason Potts

“You can automate the production of cars but you cannot automate the production of customers”.–Walter Reuther

“How can a building owner that festoons his public surfaces with the visual intrusion of advertising into the public viewshed then object to personal grafitti?”–verdant.net

The pragmatic faction of any movement is the co-opted faction.

“Revenge is a lazy form of grief. Most of us got over that initial reaction.”–Liberty Lover, quoted on Thom Hartmann radio program

“Liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”–Mikhail Bakunin

The far right is far from right.

I’ll believe in the free market if and when the free market believes in me.

Free speech implies the right to SCREAM!

The clothes don’t make the man; the clothes destroy the man. That’s why a man in a suit is referred to as a suit.

“No incorporation without representation”–Paul

“Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced”–ThisCanadian

“As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.”–Noam Chomsky

“If politics is ugly, then realpolitik is downright revolting.”–Wonquette

Power knows no conscience.

Britain … will this year export 111 million litres of milk and 47 million kilograms of butter, while simultaneously importing 173 million of litres of milk and 49 million kilograms of butter.–Menno Salverda

Anarchism implies anagorism.

“Risk taking is fabulous… — but not when it’s involuntary.”–New York magazine, quoted by “living on less”

“Temp-to-perm” is HR-speak for “Permatemp.”

Grandchildren are not an entitlement.

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Holla Back New York City – If You Can’t Slap ‘Em, Snap ‘Em!

The Common Ills

macroinformation

Liberal education, by reputation, is learning for its own
sake. For this discussion I shall take “illiberal” to be
the opposite of liberal. Illiberal education is a means to
an end. Perhaps the distinction can be better expressed by
contrasting “education” with “training” than “liberal” with
“illiberal.” I have chosen the latter approach based on
several considerations. My concern about the ascendancy of
illiberal training coincides with my fear and loathing of
the loss of liberal values. Also, some of the pedagogical
ideas I have come to see as illiberal clearly have self-
identified constituencies. These have injected themselves
into public policy debate on education, as such, and
consistently refer to their projects as educational; less
often as training.

So, in the wonderful world of education, what’s hot, and
what’s not? Are the liberal arts dead? I believe liberal
arts education will endure, but will retreat to its earlier
role in society as an intellectual plaything of the leisure
class. One force driving this retreat is the trend in
college financial aid policy toward fewer grants and more
loans. To borrow, for any purpose, is to place a bet on
one’s future earning power. Education paid for with
borrowed money is necessarily a means to economic ends.
Another economic trend eroding the standing of liberal arts
is the de-professionalization of scholars. This de-
professionalization is being accomplished on numerous
fronts simultaneously. A shrinking percentage of faculty
are tenured, and a shrinking percentage of graduate
students are supported, which is to say, have fellowships.
Wayne State University recently ran a radio ad campaign for
a liberal arts master’s degree program with professional
adults as its stated intended applicant pool. The new
intellectual ethic is; get established first, use resulting
discretionary income, if you wish, to lead the proverbial
examined life. An analogous trend is perhaps visible in
the promotion of retirement strategies by the major
brokerage firms. Today’s generation of retirees, they
suggest, is obliterating retirement as we know it by
managing the wealth generated during professional-level
careers for investment in careers with perhaps altruistic
implications, involving such activities as teaching and
mentoring. The new social ethic is that every human
activity requires economic success as a justification.

What does the new illiberal education look like? Liberal
education has always stood alongside vocational education,
but I fear vocational education, like liberal education,
belongs to a more innocent age. The traditional home of
post-secondary vocational education is the trade school.
The trade school is alive and well, and seems to be
enlarging its market share in the education industry. The
trade school segment is certainly marketing its wares
aggressively. Consider the now-famous Universal Technical
Institute, a center of automotive learning. I just sat
through their infomercial, which places heavy emphasis on
their industry relationships. It seems some of the
institute’s students will qualify to enter training
programs specific to the dealer networks of Toyota, Ford
and BMW. There is also a program geared specifically to
careers in the NASCAR(tm) racing circuit. I found this all
very intriguing. I wonder: If I were to be accepted into
their prestigious NASCAR(tm) program, would I be violating
some non-disclosure or non-competition agreement by
pursuing a technician career in Indy Racing League?
Hopefully I will find answers to at least some of my
questions about this institute at their website, uti.tv.

Another trade school that has been saturating the local
airwaves is called ComputerTraining.com. Their decibel-
enhanced radio spot encourages us to take their online
entrance exam, which is an opportunity to demonstrate that
you have “solid computer skills,” this being a pre-
requisite for their Windows XP training program. Next time
I get online I will also visit their website. Hopefully I
won’t have to agree to too many things in order to check
out their test and find out what they mean by solid
computer skills.

Trade education has never been learning for its own sake,
but is it still vocational in nature? A vocation is a
calling. Does a calling have a brand name? Trades have
always had trade secrets, but they used to have trade
unions, too. Paid apprenticeships are giving way to paid-
for (usually with borrowed money) training programs.

Michael’s Nonsense: The Michigan “election”

A Pox On All Their Houses: Bastiat, the Left-Libertarian?