Power Quote
The more things change the more they stay the same
“Whether it was a question of the right of petition or the tax on wine, freedom of the press or free trade, the clubs or the municipal charter, protection of personal liberty or regulation of the state budget, the watchword constantly recurs, the theme remains always the same, the verdict is ever ready and invariably reads: “Socialism!” Even bourgeois liberalism is declared socialistic, bourgeois enlightenment socialistic, bourgeois financial reform socialistic. It was socialistic to build a railway, where a canal already existed, and it was socialistic to defend oneself with a cane when one was attacked with a rapier.” – Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
(Thanks to Jeremy Schmall, who is presently reading Marx so that the rest of us don’t have to.)
Tags: Glenn Beck, Karl Marx
related: http://www.theonion.com/video/victim-in-fatal-car-accident-tragically-not-glenn,14380/
“in my day, i quoted marx a bit / when i was a young gun, practicing my marksmanship.” -sole
Beck is clearly the farce version, but of who’s tragedy?
He reminds me of the ape in The Last Battle.
Wow. A grotesque photo totally befitting the creature it depicts.
No sunbeam elevator for him, I’m sure, no matter how much he might pray for it.
Lincoln: We’re the tragedy, of course. Perhaps he’s the cancer on our own ass?
Also, Justin, is it true that all poetry repeats itself twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as flarf?
Are you suggesting that Glenn Beck is flarf?
Game, set, match–Lincoln.
“it does not matter what color a cat is as long as it hunts mice” – deng xiaoping
One of my favorite essays . . . I taught this to a bunch of nurses and had them watch Back to the Future and write an essay on the uses of history in the film using this and Hayden White . . . So. Much. Fun. Need a better movie though . . .
I thought your wrote Beck to the Future. Which made me think that Glenn Beck is missing his opportunity for a two-hour Fox special science fiction Jeremiad about the consequences of our liberal shenanigans.
related: http://www.theonion.com/video/victim-in-fatal-car-accident-tragically-not-glenn,14380/
“in my day, i quoted marx a bit / when i was a young gun, practicing my marksmanship.” -sole
Beck is clearly the farce version, but of who’s tragedy?
That would have much smarter than I had been when I wrote that . . . am now at work on script “Beck to the Future.”
have been* much
He reminds me of the ape in The Last Battle.
Wow. A grotesque photo totally befitting the creature it depicts.
No sunbeam elevator for him, I’m sure, no matter how much he might pray for it.
Lincoln: We’re the tragedy, of course. Perhaps he’s the cancer on our own ass?
Also, Justin, is it true that all poetry repeats itself twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as flarf?
Are you suggesting that Glenn Beck is flarf?
Game, set, match–Lincoln.
One of my favorite essays . . . I taught this to a bunch of nurses and had them watch Back to the Future and write an essay on the uses of history in the film using this and Hayden White . . . So. Much. Fun. Need a better movie though . . .
I love socialism. I love getting close to people.
Cats easily seen by raptors catch fewer mice.
–Dung Shallsting
all poetry repeats itself twice
The third occurrence (second repeat) in an anthology or bathroom stall.
I thought your wrote Beck to the Future. Which made me think that Glenn Beck is missing his opportunity for a two-hour Fox special science fiction Jeremiad about the consequences of our liberal shenanigans.
That would have much smarter than I had been when I wrote that . . . am now at work on script “Beck to the Future.”
have been* much
I love socialism. I love getting close to people.
Cats easily seen by raptors catch fewer mice.
–Dung Shallsting
all poetry repeats itself twice
The third occurrence (second repeat) in an anthology or bathroom stall.
i am so confused right now.
Nah, we all know Adolph Obama wrote that.
Nah, we all know Adolph Obama wrote that.