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theory of the middle class : a few bad apples
Jonathan McIntosh:We will miss Steve Jobs. We will not miss his pioneering of closed systems, monopolies, predatory business practices, slave labor, worker suicides and locked devices…. Apple products. iwant, iwant, iwant, idesire, idesire,….the epitomy, the sweet spot of American middle … Continue reading
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a bigger bang: head shots and dumbing down
Blame it on bourgeois ethics? Is the successful t.v. series The Big Bang Theory merely insulting in its violence; a violence which may be an endemic cultural trait within middle-class values, that repository of conservatism and arch determination to maintain … Continue reading
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men of property
Joseph Conrad characterized John Galsworthy as a moralist, someone who tended to betray instead of revealing ” the very truth of things.” In part, the sterling example of an ineffectual empathy, a sterile compassion that was reluctant to transform an … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, Arnold Bennett, attilio pusterla, edward garnett, Emma Goldman, galsworthy the silver box, giovacchino toma, giuseppe pellizza da volpedo, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, john galsworthy the pigeon, John Sloan, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath rebel sell, mary cassatt, Naomi Klein, ralph mctell streets of london, thomas frank the baffler, Virginia Woolf
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the poor don’t need your pity
…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, arthur galsworthy, augustus edwin mulready, Charles Dickens, george elgar hicks, Gustave Dore, jacob viner, james collinson paintings, Jeremy Bentham, John Galsworthy, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, Malthus, thomas benjamin kennington
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writing from the port side
These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Ford Madox Ford, henry scott tuke, James McNeill Whistler, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, John William Waterhouse, Joseph Conrad, joseph crawhall, kirsten cale, nick hubble, Sam Huntington, Sigmund Freud, steven metz, Walter Benjamin
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kicking the can down the road: again
There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail, soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Goodman, Bobby Seale, Camp Forest tent city, cornel west, Emile Durkheim, erskine nichol painter, erskine nicol painter, Ford Madox Ford, Frans Hals, frederick walker paintings, george elgar hicks, harry belafonte, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Luke Fildes, Martin Luther King, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, sir samuel luke fildes, Stephen Colbert, tavis smiley, ted sanderson, the Heritage Foundation, tim geithner, war on poverty
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poverty: robbery assault and flattery
Is it right for heart to be too often in the right place? The epitome of the bleeding heart liberal.Can pity be the artists worst enemy? John Galsworthy’s father became a lawyer but thought little of that dusty profession in … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Le Brun, Corot, Edouard Manet, france revolution 1848, French Political Satire, GOP leadership, Gov. Rick Perry, harriet cohen, Honore Daumier, John Galsworthy, john noble, martin luther king monument, Myra Hess, Nicolas Poussin, Obama jobs plan, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, The Affordable Care Act, u.s. poverty statistics
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SKINNING CATS & LEOPARD SKIN PILLBOX HATS
There they were on a Sunday morning 1n the 1890′s , pedaling with determination along the New Jersey Palisades until they found a quiet stretch of river. Then they stripped off their serviceable knickerbockers and blouses, and bathed, glowing with … Continue reading
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