Class meme
via seeking academia
Bold the statements that are true. Seen it everywhere.... Though this list is not all encompassing, it is still relevant
1. Father went to college (one semester)
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 (no really long-term lessons)
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child (dad's an amateur artist)
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
25. You had your own room as a child (2-kid, 2-bedroom house, but part of childhood spent in makeshift bedroom in basement due to incompatibilities)
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course (high school curriculum, of course, was teaching to the test)
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school (at times I had garbage picked TV's that worked)
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 (still an air travel virgin at age 42)
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family (mom involved us kids in family bookkeeping, we were aware of all the bills)
12/34
09 February 2008
Quotations with links
"Before we turn all of America into a gated community, with a 700 mile steel fence running along the southern border, we should consider the mixed history of exclusionary walls."--Barbara Ehrenreich
"...anarchists reject both privatisation and nationalisation."--Anarcho
"Tired of Poll-Driven News Coverage of Elections, Instead of Issue-Driven News Coverage? Lie to a Pollster."--Rex Frankel
"So, when my sweetie tells the Big Phone Company that his [sic] going to the Big Cable Company for Internet service, I just had to laugh. (Behind his back, of course. He's pretty irritated.) I wish him luck on that one."--Happy Chyck
"As far as state welfare goes, anarchists do not place it high on the list of things we are struggling against (once the welfare state for the rich has been abolished, then, perhaps, we will reconsider that)."--from the Anarchist FAQ
"I'll believe 'transhumanists' who claim to advocate consensual therapeutic multiculture as I do when more of them show anything like real concern about the ways in which savagely unequal distributions of authority, resources, reliable information, and legal redress duress the actually existing scene of consent in the present."--Dale Carrico
"In recent years, 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' have usually meant meeting the GOP halfway, regardless of how far right it veers, with agreement an end in itself."--Reg
"The poor are made to feel guilty and ashamed of their poverty, their illness and their unemployment, when they should be angry."--Dave Pollard
"Shopping malls are full of security cameras, but many have signs at the entrance telling customers that no photography or video recording is allowed."--David Brin
"The quadrennial political puppet show, highlighting not opposition but its appearance, is essential to keeping the captive-taking war machine running and to inoculating the American people from the viral knowledge that they themselves were first to be captured."--James Carroll
"Thus, 'economic freedom' would mean freedom from the economy--from being controlled by economic forces and relationships."--Herbert Marcuse, quoted by Jack Saturday
19 December 2007
Quotations with links
"... a long time ago I decided that there is no privacy in anything digital (which is both a beautiful and a terrifying thing, depending on how much you know about technology). Knowing a bit myself, but not quite enough, I've decided to try and flood the network with as much information about myself as possible in the naive and desperate hope that by creating more positive and truthful information I can counter whatever lies may someday be advanced against what I'm really up to."--Chris Messina quoted by Brian C. Russell
"To the non-expert there seems to be an alarming freeness among economists to rather arbitrarily hold some things to be totally fixed and others to be totally elastic while a willingness to overlook that a lot of life is sticky, and no place more perhaps than in price."--Bruce Webb
"9/11--the bad cop's best friend (and it turns out there are a lot of bad cops.)"--Randolph Fritz
"Of course Aristide has been 'polarizing'. That is like saying that two men kissing on the quad at Oral Roberts University is polarizing. If you don't want to be polarizing figure in Haiti, just accept the continued super-exploitation of 95 percent of the population with equanimity. Despite being a priest, Aristide would have none of that.
"--Louis Proyect
"With all that we have learned, we should be helping our heterosexual brothers and sisters out of their state-defined prisons, not volunteering to join them there."--Jane Rule, quoted by Women's Space
"Just look at average nation-to-nation trade talks. 'Cooperate to remain competitive' 'Remain competitive in a cooperative manner' ???? That's not going to work. Smashmouth competition is really not conducive to loving cooperation."--Wingnut - MaStars
"I'm paraphrasing Bruce Sterling here, but if you give a totalitarian government a hammer, they'll beat you on the head with it. If you distribute hammers to the population of a relatively free society, they'll build houses. Modern information technologies are the hammers and we all have them (the digital divide notwithstanding) and so does the government. We need to be realistic about that and get on with the house-building."--Bill Simmon
"A rough definition of money is 'the ability to make other people work'."--Borisas Cimbleris
"Another thing that the 'local God' learned to teach his disciples... is to 'frown-down-upon' layers BELOW any given layer... and think of those lower layers... as 'lessers' and 'servants to your layer'. And... KEEP LAYERS BELOW YOURS BROKE AND SCRAMBLING FOR BUX... (good for dutifulness) and... MAKE THEM BLAME/FIGHT-WITH EACH OTHER ON THEIR OWN LAYER over the problem(s). "--Wingnut - MaStars
"The relationship between God and humanity is that of omniscient father and obedient child. Those personalities who broke out of that and displayed intellectual curiosity (Eve) or a certain brassy chutzpah (Lucifer) which I think of as indispensable qualities of a revolutionary (to say nothing of a sense of humor), certainly did not advance very far in God's system."--Stacia
"It's hard to understand all this right-wing fury at the friggin' CIA, for god's sake. But throughout history, insane evil leaders have spent most of their time being insanely angry at the people who share the same evil goals but want to go about it in a more rational manner."--Jonathan Schwarz
08 December 2007
Quotations with links
"The narrowminded variety of libertarians, who can see only one threat to markets and freedom - bureaucrats. Ignoring all of human history, this oversimplifying silliness has rendered libertarianism a joke, in the one country where it had a chance."--David Brin
"People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause."--..::*Sunnely*::..
"Thus, the academe becomes the ideological home for the rationalizations and analyses for the 'free markets,' 'free trade,' and 'deregulation and privatization' which are relentlessly hammered home by the U.P. School of Economics. But our neo-liberal friends neglect to tell us that their prescription is based on freedom for business but discrimination against and repression for the laboring poor."--Roland G. Simbulan
"I've heard more than one activist posit that technology is a creature of the capitalist state. Bullshit. That's like saying reading, writing and basic mathematics are tools of the state and we should reject them."--antisocialite
"The dominance of players like Google is not a fact of nature, but a design decision, so this investigation into the realism of distributed alternatives is very important."--Michel Bauwens
"In particular I direct your attention to the latter parts of the letter where [Samuel] Konkin explicitly claims that there is nothing at all wrong with torture, cops, jails, chains, whips, etc. He says that, as Anarchists, people like myself should have no problem with such things per se, but should object to them only when people are jailed, whipped etc., by some state or government."--Fred Woodworth
"Think of Kerry denying he supported gay marriage -- and recognize that the same sort of people who thought that would win him support are now inside the control room at ClintonHQ"--Lawrence Lessig
"Today, institutionalized education is nothing more than an occupational army standing in a country formerly called education, and its main order is to prevent that something happens. It does not create something, it does not even try to teach anything. It only >shows the instruments< of today's society, the crude and cruel rules of sheer competition, and exterminates any spaces and processes that could get out of control, that could create something dangerous."--Christoph Spehr
"There is no liberty where the outcome is already determined; under such a presumptive and authoritarian logic, security always trumps freedom."--Michael
"As a practice, detournement reflected a contradiction between the recognition that fighting on the same terrain as the enemy is a seductive but inevitable trap, and the desire to occupy the buildings of power under a new name. This contradiction crystallized in the hijacking metaphor: detourne was a verb commonly used to describe the hijacking of a plane."--Joanne Richardson
"What we need to make clear is: in the war between [the] US and Islamists, between the two poles of terrorism, we do not need to support either. We must condemn both. We should form a third pole, a third voice to oppose both."--Azar Majedi
"Progressives have ceded the physical world to 'markets' and technocratic experts--never a good strategy. Technology has become a democracy-free zone."--Christopher Csikszentmihalyi
"There's nothing like having a good repository, and keeping a good lookout, not waiting at home for things to fall into the lap, but prowling about like a wolf for the prey."--Jeremy Belknap
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."--Thomas Huxley
"If people who hold views that the candidate doesn't agree with, and they give to us, that's their loss."--a spokesperson for the Ron Paul campaign
"If all have plenty, then interaction can be of a solely noneconomic nature, and economics as a science is mere stupidity."--trhurler
"It is likely that genetic engineering will remain unpopular and controversial so long as it remains a centralized activity in the hands of large corporations."--Freeman Dyson
"the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution 'fail' while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to 'succeed' if that requires them to lose power within the institution."--Jon Schwartz, quoted by Woody
Web "to do" list
A file in which I accumulate links and searches to check out next time I manage to get my hands on a public access computer...
as
"asperger technical"
tvo autism
biz
10 stupid mistakes of newly self-employed
blog
free blogspot templates
blogdigger local
free blogspot templates
comp
how flash memory works
debian grimoire
dissent
"404 willis"
lansing infoshop
radgeek
gaba
antiauthoritarian
tiny revolution
earth
econ
futurist economics
trade & inequality
edu
feral scholar
capital & universities (pdf)
fash
finance
insurance tips
predatory lending association
folkx
joe vialls
patrick flanagan
thomas mulholland
tovarishch tony
penguin of doom
onion volcano
john robb
joanne richardson
junnever
food
gt
hood
work & finding a job
using nurudin jauhari's degree
(expletive deleted) no-compete clauses
info
gapminder
open content
open knowledge initiative
sheeple beware
avoiding data centralization
p2p in a nutshell
how buying a sell phone works
how municipal wi-fi works
disrespect copyrights!
the neurocommons
public knowledge
michigan community information corps
"privacy is dead" dvd
"cypherpunks anti license"
electro hippies collective
transparency@sunclipse
lex
solove on exhibitionist law
collateral sanctions
med
longevity medicine=basic healthcare
music
guide to buying riaa-free cd's
f*ck guitar center
binary detroit
net
nethack
barney the dinosaur
spellbook of create familiar
opinion
strange death of liberal america
evil liberal propaganda network
sick of survival
mutualist
why capitalism & democracy don't mix
antifa portal
alan de smet's quotebag
call me lefty
paranoia
sousveillance
surveillance
privacy redefined
war on photography
national security archive
philanthropy
physics
politics
notes on 21st century socialism
"pendulum swing"
retire joe knollenberg
to err is truman
feinstein the new lieberman
social democracy in benin
2 party system=criminal conspiracy
communalism
"interstitial strategy"
psych
radio
sirius vs. xm
how hd radio works
progressive talk in san diego
realestate
san francisco community land trust
religion
atheist experience
challenge religion
pietism not simple anti-sacerdotalism
lalon phokir
bible@wikiality
sf
nesci community
earth hits wiki
soc
cooperation eventually trumps conflict
design your own utopia
are you a sheeple?
stigma net
endarkenment
don't call me generation x
space
chronos
ephemeris 1.0
o'neill colonies
tech
product hacking
new tech benefit only rich & powerful?
timmins technologies
tv
war
information about the private army
wmd
wymyn
17 November 2007
Quotations with links
"In order to get a walkable community you need density, and in order to get more density you need a regional mass transit system. It just boggles my mind that an area this size doesn't have mass transit."--Jana Ecker
"The only college degrees worth having are in the 'thousand year old professions' such as law, architecture, civil engineering, medicine."--John Lawrence
"Politicians, industrial managers, academic administrators, and other leaders often say that innovation is critical to the future of civilization, our country, their company, etc. But in practice, these same people often act as if innovation is an evil that must be suppressed, or at least tightly controlled."--Ronald B. Standler
(ideology: where you no longer have ideas but the ideas have you).--precari-punx
"When someone acts as a Roman in Rome, it doesn't promote Rome. It promotes itself."--Sharon Golan
Web "to do" list
A file in which I accumulate links and searches to check out next time I manage to get my hands on a public access computer...
arts
strictly no photography
house of doom
as
don't cure autism now!
autscape
bio
blog
blogger templates
google webmaster tools
comp
read this to learn c
"command line" ephemeris
dissent
disloyal opposition
"counter institution"
antiinstitutionalism
"anti institutionalism"
freeculture
@h+
econ
tragedy of the anticommons
totac@26econ
totac@p2p
anticommons theory & practice
edu
finance
folkx
nick denardis
alison hymes
brooke
gis
hood
want a job? submit your dna
education, careers, jobs, employment
info
kommunikationsguerilla
information liberation
how stuff works
libris
book fair deemed security threat
net
download tor
download torpark
truly free account
xerobank browser
cyberspace as place
nethack
opinion
politics
02 November 2007
More quotations with links
"For the transhumanist movement to grow and become a serious challenge to their opposites, the bio-Luddites, they will need to distance themselves from their elitist anarcho-capitalist roots and clarify commitments to liberal democratic institutions, values and public policies."--James Hughes Ph.D.
"In Greek 'necessity'- anangke, serves also as the word for 'force,' 'constraint,' 'compulsion,' 'violence,' and 'duress.'"--Earl Shorris quoted by Jack Saturday
"Although their effect is similar, the economic laws which come into operation in an exchange economy such as capitalism are not natural laws, since they arise out of a specific set of social relationships existing between human beings."--Alan Johnstone
"Sure we need to survive, but let's acknowledge the desperation under this drive to take everything we do, are or think and try to get cash for it. It reminds me of a young child who shows her father a drawing. He playfully offers her a dollar for it and 15 minutes later she comes back with 5 more. What got lost there in between the first spontaneous artwork and the 5 subsequent calculated ones?"--szoutewelle
"Although some might disagree with me, I think the biopunk movement is pro-clone. Anything to change the way humans breed is a Good Thing. It gets us out of the mommy-daddy-baby continuum."--Annalee Newitz
"There is no third party payment scheme that allows me to ignore the fact that your time is 'worth' over twenty times per hour more than what I earn when I am working in the employ of others."--Roger N. Meyer
"I remember reading up on Carlyle in the months following 911. It was the firm that both the Bushes and bin Ladens held stock in. The private ownership dynamic certainly has had negative consequences for the public."--Bretton Jones
web "to do" list
as
hooked on stimming!
positive stims
stim list
autism, genius and greatness
bio
clone rights united front
ribofunk
free alba!
techsploitation
econ
what is preferensism?
new rules
edu
covert curriculum
10 reasons not to go to college
finance
food
gt
forcing boys to be boys
gender shock
hood
precari-punx
creativity in science and engineering
personnel looks at all the trivial surface stuff
info
what is datablogging?
john tropea on datablogging
underground systems
lex
"reparative therapy"=child abuse (pdf)
med
drug induced movement disorders
opinion
paranoia
philosophy
berube on nanosocialism
viridian design
politics
impact of authoritarian conservatism, part 3
queer
gay today
calculated compassion
square pegs
transit
31 October 2007
The aristocracy of push
The market economy is a tool which the more assertive use quite effectively to extract both producer and consumer surplus from the less assertive. The market economy is thus a meritocracy of assertiveness. That it is probably also a meritocracy of other things seems plausible, but this is of little consolation when there are few help wanted ads in fields other than sales or collections. The fact that well over 90% of openings are unadvertised is of little consolation when you don't have a (expletive deleted) "network."
According to the (expletive deleted) economics textbooks, extraction of surplus from producers or consumers is associated with incomplete information, price discrimination and market power (monopoly and monopsony). It seems obvious to me that pure assertiveness can also accomplish this result, quite independently of the competitive or informational condition of an industry. After all, everyone knows that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
web "to do" list
as
autism asperger neuroleptic antipsychotic
bio
free our genetic data!
bodyhacking
biz
dissent
the anarchist commune
un yomango argentino
econ
wages, prices and money in a post-capitalist economy
hazel henderson
the visible hand
you don't have to fuck people over to survive
why no precarity discourse in usa?
folkx
apunk
t3knomanser
nathan whitmore
john lawrence
mad hatter
gt
school to work
info
hack this site!
datablogging
open mind common sense
lex
opinion
newrab
fancy pants words page
eclectic page
incognitum x
paranoia
politics
politics in the zeros
politics of transhumanism
transit
sustainable detroit transportation
26 October 2007
"Earlier in the morning, and the reason why an officer was in McDonald's in the first place, was that there had been a robbery. One officer responded to the robbery call. On the other hand, there were at least three police cruisers on the scene and six or seven officers involved to sort out the alleged crime of a homeless woman needing to use the bathroom. What is wrong with this picture?"--Mike Rhodes
"Our future includes such things as, kidnapping for extortion (since only the living body of the truly rich is worth anything now), giving rise to the power of the 'gated community'; meaning that we should expect to see more almost medaeval walled areas within our cities, leaving behind the similarly medaeval ghettos."--Murdock
"In a world without walls or fences, what need have we for windows and gates"--cht
"In order to create a revolution that can put an end to all domination, it is necessary to put an end to the tendency we all have to submit."--Venomous Butterfly
"...if we insist on remaining affluent we will need to remain heavily armed."--Ted Trainer
"For many people it no longer makes sense to organize around their work situation. Our work is constantly changing, it is never really defined."--Jacobito
"I always thought the rolodex factor was something strongly implied, but never discussed. ... Now people are explicit about and even screaming about their rolodexes. I guess that’s the market economy in action."--Elisa
still another web "to do" list
ag
albion statement (pdf)
as
autfinity project 1
autfinity project 2
metaphorical autism and the real thing
bio
biz
comp
download rpilot
ieee pilot standard (pdf)
dissent
earth
network w. sustainable detroit
econ
chussudowsky
festival of frugality
social choice and beyond
precarity info
precarious understanding
autistic economics?
"abolish economics"
desperation exploitation
fash
folkx
venomous butterfly
zuzu_
dr. menlo
jason millar
gt
castration among futurists
postgenderism
hood
don't want a job?
job watch
global unemployment at historic high
info
technological transformations of the subject of privacy
google mashups, sousveillance, data mining
personal data mining
future is last week
chicago rocks back
net
opinion
paranoia
philanthropy
politics
politics of morphological freedom
keep your laws off my body
hafrada
taboo topics for candidates
psych
religion
soc
transit
center for appropriate transport
tv
10 October 2007
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
Blogging meme
By way of Asperger Square 8
1. Is there a regular time of day when you compose your posts?
No, although my most creative writing occurs during the hours when everything is possible; after midnight.
2. Do you prefer to write a certain number of posts per week (or per month)?
No. My output is very sporadic.
3. Are you more likely to write a post when you're happy about the topic, or do you mainly blog when you feel like ranting?
Mainly ranting. But I strive for conflict-free language, a project very much facilitated by the fact that I do all my composing offline.
4. Do you write from notes or an outline, or are your posts mostly spontaneous?
Most of my longer posts start as a "bulleted list", with paragraph text filled in. Most recent example in this form is Time for the mitten to bite the hand
I rarely post anything spontaneously, although I did in a more innocent time.
5. Do you try to maintain a central theme for your blog and avoid random topics that don't fit the theme?
No. I started the blog as a "containment bucket" so as to avoid posting overly-opinionated content at my "ecumenical" projects (both of which are really hurting for read/write participants other than myself, BTW), pubwan scratchpad and vagrant netizen tribe. It has evolved to include both opinionated and unopinionated essays on any subject that isn't clearly apropos to the other two venues.
State-level Michigan politics is a frequent topic, and another is speculative microeconomics. Recently I have begun to blog my "web to-do lists," and "quotation compilations." More about this under "rituals" (#6)
6. Are there any interesting rituals associated with your blogging?
Yes! All of my online activity, including blogging, is highly ritualized. This is an adaptation to the fact that I have no residential internet access, so all of my online activity is at the public library. My online and offline methodology is described in considerable detail at vagrant netizen (linked to above, #5)
30 September 2007
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')
More interesting quotations with links
"inquiry into the criminal question made plain that the great mass of crimes are crimes against property; even those crimes arising from jealousy are property crimes resulting from the notion of a right of property in flesh. Allowing property to be eradicated, both in practice and in spirit, no crimes are left but such are the acts of the mentally sick."--Voltairine De Cleyre
"One wonders how long such a system can last since most kleptocracies fail, bloodily, when there is no more wealth to loot. The powerful leave, and poor fight each other for what's left."--Kvatch
"Death To Memes! Up With People!"--William
"When the working class unites, there will be a lot of jobless labor leaders."--Eugene Debs
"...you do what your boss says because you've become dependent on your job..."--anon.(?)
"Look at the development of Christian theology: the paradox of salvation by good works versus salvation by faith would never exist had Christianity greater respect for critical thought."--Jason
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