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Originally Posted by pbradley
And the answer is to obfuscate this ethical twinge with an unconvincing egotism?
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what egotism? obfuscate what exactly?
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To answer your questions, I have an ipod that I haven't used in about two years. I do not have an iphone. I haven't purchased music in months. I can only assume some shit of mine has been made in sweatshops. None of this is an implicit endorsement of the conditions that produce them.
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come on, you're smarter than that-- we're all accomplices and you know it. at least those of us doing the buying. yes, you haven't had a job, you haven't had money, but when you did, you were.
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Your message isn't to consume less, it's to quit whining and keep your head down. Shit, you're more down this rabbit hole of anti-consumerist self-contempt that I can imagine. I remember reading it in between your "The Secret" go-get-em amoralism that you coached when the crash was just starting to hurt and some here couldn't find work.
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sorry, secret what? i coached who? can you explain?
my message is what? keep your head down? fuck that shit. you've misread something.
about "some here couldn't find work": i lost work during the crash, you know? the majority of my clients (non-profits) shrank back or went under. we moved from a 3 bedroom house to a summer house-sitting gig to a 1 bedroom apartment. we adapted, hustled like motherfuckers, and survived. you didn't hear me crying here about anything and i'm doing well, thanks.
and i've paid my dues for having studied humanities, thank you. i've been a dishwasher, construction worker, waiter, pizza maker, underpaid teaching assistant, office temp, the list goes on forever. i know capitalism can be shit, i know what it's having no money, or how crap is the minimum wage, and i know what it means to live on rice and beans (literally, not metaphorically) --- i've never had much of what's called a "disposable income", hence i don't have any "collections" of anything except for used books i used to buy for 50 cents each.
meanwhile you're living at your parents free from homelessness, hunger and disease, and your only pain is that you can't go to a bar or buy a new ipod or any new music and nobody will pay you to be a philosopher.
i think you're a fucking pussy for feeling the need to take out your frustrations on me, but if you need the catharsis, by all means, go ahead if it will help you regain your balance.
now go stand outside of the home depot and make some money like the mexicans do, you fucking spoiled brat.
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Capitalism is shit, I'm pessimistic that socialism is capable of providing anything superior. This isn't sanctimonious leftist dogma, its a spiritual catch-22.
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So you're paralyzed by lofty ideas while suffering neither hunger nor homelessness-- that's quite convenient. I wanna suffer like that too! With free cable. Grow some balls and go do something instead of moaning here. I mean anything. If you wanna be a revolutionary, then start your revolution instead of posting useless internet jeremiads. I mean seriously. Go be the Che Guevara of Orange County. Go write the 21 century answer to Plato's "Republic". Or go find a job.
I've never said "do nothing" or "give up and submit"-- I do live in reality and I have to deal with what's in front of me rather than the World of Ideas-- and in spite of my shitty income and various obstacles I've been doing volunteer work to pass universal health care legislation-- quite frustrating at the moment, but we'll see how that goes-- nowhere here have I said "put your head down and quit whining", and if you're reading that into my posts maybe you're working out some issues of your own. I mean the "quit whining" part yes, but "put your head down"? Ranting on the internet about the evils of capitalism is not "raising your head high" by the way-- it's just suburban spoiled bullshit. Like I said, if you hate capitalism, go and destroy it-- actively.
If you don't have the balls to be a revolutionary, the census bureau is hiring, by the way:
http://2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs/
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and i gotta get back to work. read you later-- tomorrow, maybe.