Citing Immanuel Wallerstein’s “The Bourgeois(ie) in Concept and Reality”
… It seems like a bad joke: the bourgeois class transforming the entire world from the ground up, audaciously and senselessly extracting abstract value from every part of the globe, violently, mechanically, and joylessly exploiting every angle, every nook and cranny around the world, without respect to outdated ties of family, of gender, of common decency, covering the nations of the world with itself, obliterating all of the sentimental notions held by the previous feudal/aristocratic order — and then, upon being asked why they did all this, why they remade the world in their image, responding that they wanted to be… the aristocrats! Nevertheless, the contours of Wallerstein’s argument demand to be taken seriously…
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He was not allowed to swear an oath, nor to wear a ring nisi pervio et cass, that is, as they explain it, unless plain and without stones; nor to strip himself naked in the open air, nor to go out without his proper head-dress, nor to have a knot in any part of his attire, nor to walk along a path over-canopied by vines. He might not touch flour, nor leaven, nor leavened bread, nor a dead body: he might not enter a burial place, but was not prevented from attending a funeral. He was forbidden either to touch or to name a dog, a she-goat, ivy, beans, or raw flesh. None but a free man might cut his hair; the clippings of which, together with the parings of his nails, were buried beneath a felix arbor. No one might sleep in his bed, the legs of which were smeared with fine clay; and it was unlawful to place a box containing sacrificial cakes in contact with the bedstead.
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The report, titled ‘How Dirty Is Your Data,’ states that if the internet had been a country, it would have occupied fifth position in the list of most polluting nations ” […] “Server farms are expanding and multiplying rapidly. In our technologically interconnected world, data centres are the factories of the 21st Century,” the report says. “The technologies of the 21st century are still largely powered by the dirty coal power of the past, with over half of the companies (studied for the report) relying on coal for between 50% and 80% of their energy needs.”
O Perseus, keep these things in mind and forget violence when you attend to justice. To men, Zeus gave this nomos: what is proper to the fish, the wild beasts, and the winged birds is to devour each other, since there is no justice between them. But to men Zeus gave justice, which is much better.
Gaga all slamming her shoe on the table at the UN. “We will bury you, Weird Al,” she shouts.
On why charging market rates for street parking makes everything better.
The doomsday schedule (no weekend service, nothing but commute time service on weekdays) is off the table for now; here’s the new revised schedule for the summer.
