tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post5282850881780898936..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: The Oozlum protocolDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-46221382255534297812008-05-30T01:01:00.000+02:002008-05-30T01:01:00.000+02:00I think that being the emigrants from other places...I think that being the emigrants from other places, so many US citizens and want to be citizens are much more prone to realize when the good times are all gone and it's time for movin' on. The mystery for me is why they haven't. So, on this score, I would have to say, based on the facts, your theory works, mine doesn't. I returned to the US for a week long visit in 2005 after being absent from the country completely for 18 years.<BR/>I traveled and made stops from NYC to Connecticut and then all the way down to North Carolina, by car. In answer to my question {asked of everyone, family and strangers alike} what the hell is going on here?, everyone said "What?". I quickly came to realize it was the frog in the slowly heating pot phenomenon. No one seemed the least bit concerned about the political skulduggery. Now, however, they phone and write me and they are very alarmed that the economy has crashed. So the story seems to be that loss of constitutional rights and freedoms is a negligible event, but a pancaked pocketbook will get one's attention every time. I'm still going over your Oozlum allegory and trying to fathom the idea. I'm also wondering why so little talk on the campaign trail about the economy, or lack of one.<BR/>The middle class is genuinely frightened by current money events and the closer to the housing shocked areas one is, the more dire the feeling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-69421596661325848132008-05-29T07:31:00.000+02:002008-05-29T07:31:00.000+02:00What I mean RC, is that the system that melts the ...What I mean RC, is that the system that melts the solid into air is much farther advanced in America and the population, because they are the descendants of uprooted immigrants are more vulnerable and "meltable".David Seaton's Newslinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-61984708876045917652008-05-29T00:09:00.000+02:002008-05-29T00:09:00.000+02:00Being Irish, Portuguese and also an ex-pat, I defi...Being Irish, Portuguese and also an ex-pat, I definitely absorbed the vibe in the first part of your post and while I am not so sure of the usefulness or desirability of saudade, which is the human condition and not just Portuguese, Celtic or Brazilian, it's hard to deny that it exists. Hell, it hangs around me no matter what I do. But then you move on into the Marxist realms and the Oozlum phenomenon and I can't relate. <BR/>I think exploitation has been around far longer than the idea of America {US} or the bourgeoisie. Is it OK on this blog to disagree intensely with Marxist Theory? Old Karl definitely seems to be one of your pets, and hey, it is your place here, but really, if his theories and their application were all that great, I think by now he would have at least a few successful governments modeled upon his concepts. And they would be....? As for Walt and Mick I believe they are straight out of the Barnum Branch of American exploitation. I believe you would place Obama somewhere upon that same continuum. I have no problem with either your classification or their activities. I think all of that is legal. But, yes, it does arouse the saudade in my person. In fact, most of the activities of humankind are rather depressing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com