Wednesday, May 01, 2002

I posted this over at the Small Pieces Gang Blog, where the context probably helps: Just as Plato was in olive oil, and Spinoza in lens grinding, so business and industry are metaphysicians in spite of themselves. The only problem is, not only do they not know this, they fail to appreciate the damage they're doing to human discourse and human imagination by not attending to the implications of their marketing, advertising and strategic metaphorics. Or the damage that they're doing to their own "careers" on earth by closing off all access to the roots of their own debased speech. I guess this sounds rather severe, but let's put it this way: we have a society that is under constant siege from the remnants of bowdlerized philosophy (in the language of marketing and more). The Jesuits used to say, "Give us a child at six years of age, and we have him for life." The Jesuits of Business have us by the scrota from before we're born, minimizing the chances of creating any independent headroom. 10:27:16 AM     When the terms are two new Waits albums streaming online, one agrees with the WonderChicken that this is Good. MP3 here. 7:58:50 AM

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