tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post1970942667689052674..comments2024-03-01T00:27:42.852-08:00Comments on Hammer Of The Blogs: Behavioral TherapyHeywood J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-43576486009060291822009-01-18T15:53:00.000-08:002009-01-18T15:53:00.000-08:00Hey, man, at least nobody here linked to a video o...Hey, man, at least nobody here linked to a video of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Bobo" REL="nofollow">DJ Bobo</A>. Things could always be worse, y'know... ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-4638702799735470332009-01-18T06:35:00.000-08:002009-01-18T06:35:00.000-08:00This is weird - I've heard Brooks referred to as "...This is weird - I've heard Brooks referred to as "Bobo" countless times, but for some reason, this time it brought back a memory I thought I had successfully buried years ago. I saw <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOlzQBAIcEE" REL="nofollow">this video</A> exactly once back in '93 and I still wake in a cold sweat occasionally because of it. <BR/><BR/>So thanks, guys. I <I>really</I> appreciate it.Strix Cratylushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12944094996890358351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-71643408617696188552009-01-18T05:52:00.000-08:002009-01-18T05:52:00.000-08:00Charmingly, Bobo's article contains its own refuta...Charmingly, Bobo's article contains its own refutation -- for the "dynamic" order he speaks of is actually shorthand for "short-to-medium periods of total chaos and utter cluelessness interspersed along relatively smooth sailing." Which is, arguably, one of the things we see happening now. <BR/><BR/>Then, a few paragraphs later, he blithely discovers an insight that Hume already had, at the time when Adam Smith was penning his book -- that, to use David's own words, "reason is but the slave of passion"; the relevant passions being here, of course, greed and narcissism. In fact, even Adam Smith knew this, although of course Bobo, ever the sub-literate moron, ignores this fact. For Smith knew that people aren't "rational" by nature, but must first be trained to become so by long moral discipline. That's why Smith's first book was not <I>The Wealth of Nations</I>, but a propaedeutic on moral education, <I>The Theory of Moral Sentiments</I>. <BR/><BR/>One should ask the pink-shirted dimwit: now that you've discovered that your free-markets-and-rational-actors bullshit is just that, shouldn't you send back your party member card, and come over to the Democrats' side?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-56276816312118639012009-01-17T19:37:00.000-08:002009-01-17T19:37:00.000-08:00Sorry--John Ruskin, " The Stones of Venice"Sorry--John Ruskin, " The Stones of Venice"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-3461109112475563352009-01-17T19:19:00.000-08:002009-01-17T19:19:00.000-08:00The verbal diarrhea Bobo exhibits in this kind of ...The verbal diarrhea Bobo exhibits in this kind of crap-"how so many people could be so stupid, incompetent and self-destructive all at once"-pretty much sums it up for me. But the fact that such a description vividly describes the author, while leaving him bereft of any self realization that he and his cohorts are a big part of the problem, allows him to rationalize his myopia and absolves him of any associated guilt. Good work if you can get it. Woody Allen said, "Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love." Bobo in a nutshell.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I think time is running out on this whole house of cards, and quickly. To think otherwise defies all logic. The whole system is racing at breakneck speed toward a total collapse. The days of producing nothing of value but a bunch of increasingly nebulous profit statements and drivel not so cleverly disguised as "opinion" is over.<BR/><BR/>How 'bout we get back to producing<BR/>something of value for a living? <BR/>Increasingly many people in this country (amoung others, I can only speak to what I've observed) live their whole lives without producing anything of real value. If push comes to shove many people will be unable and unprepared to produce the three basic necessities of life (food, shelter and clothing) even if their lives depend on it, as I believe they will in the very near future. <BR/><BR/>"The foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men are pained by the scorn of the upper classes, but they cannot endure their own; for they feel that the kind of labour to which they are condemned is verily a degrading one, and makes them less than men."<BR/><BR/> --John Ruskin, Time and Tide<BR/><BR/> And oh...Happy New Year, HeywoodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com