I'm feeling completely disenchanted after this week's Supreme Court ruling which will allow corporations to virtually "own" politicians, who will then do their bidding, which will inevitably be in the interest of the corporation, not the people. Fellow-blogger R.J. Adams has written a rather good post on the subject HERE. Democrats also managed to lose a Senate seat this week, for whatever reason (probably disenchantment).
I have a copy of Bernard Rosenberg's Dictionary for the Disenchanted (1972) to hand, perhaps some of Prof. Rosenberg's definitions will help to put things into perspective.
I couldn't find any birth data for the good Professor, who died in 1996, so astrology will have to take a back seat today.....except for the first definition, in which he gives the ancient art a cynical nod:
FUTUROLOGISTS
Twentieth-century astrologers handicapped by tunnel vision who, unable to apprehend the present, helpfully extrapolate it.
APOCALYPTIC VISION
A clear picture of impending doom best perceived by those who do their utmost to hasten its onset.
CAPITALISM
A socioeconomic system that, though no longer in existence, should nevertheless be abolished in favor of socialism. The distinction is important: capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, socialism is the exact opposite.
CHANGE
Constancy; fixity; immutability.
THEORY
Bullshit.
USA
Erroneously decoded by the late e.e. cummings as The United States of Hysterica (E Pluribus Eunuch); actually, the United States of America is one of the few surviving republics where, if you do not first get killed, you can still make a killing.
WASHINGTON DC
A sleepy northern town where the walls have ears and the ears have walls.
I have a copy of Bernard Rosenberg's Dictionary for the Disenchanted (1972) to hand, perhaps some of Prof. Rosenberg's definitions will help to put things into perspective.
I couldn't find any birth data for the good Professor, who died in 1996, so astrology will have to take a back seat today.....except for the first definition, in which he gives the ancient art a cynical nod:
FUTUROLOGISTS
Twentieth-century astrologers handicapped by tunnel vision who, unable to apprehend the present, helpfully extrapolate it.
APOCALYPTIC VISION
A clear picture of impending doom best perceived by those who do their utmost to hasten its onset.
CAPITALISM
A socioeconomic system that, though no longer in existence, should nevertheless be abolished in favor of socialism. The distinction is important: capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, socialism is the exact opposite.
CHANGE
Constancy; fixity; immutability.
THEORY
Bullshit.
USA
Erroneously decoded by the late e.e. cummings as The United States of Hysterica (E Pluribus Eunuch); actually, the United States of America is one of the few surviving republics where, if you do not first get killed, you can still make a killing.
WASHINGTON DC
A sleepy northern town where the walls have ears and the ears have walls.
