Ed Kazarian
Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Rowan. Teaching Faculty Coordinator for AFT Local 2373. Plays guitar for cats. Remembers the Cold War, the NEA four, and the Hartford Whalers. Opinions my own.
- I do not think the existence of billionaires is compatible with the existence of society.
- Apparently, I have not lost my capacity to be shocked into gasping when I read about shit these people have done.
- The idea that there could be 'plausible arguments for the need for [Trump administration] enforcement efforts' boggles the mind. The idea that the Trump administration itself could have presented such arguments is even more absurd.
- We really need to remind ourselves that the origins of the term 'meritocracy' were satirical, b/c the way current elites (and their compliant administrative and managerial subordinates) have taken it up in a literal usage to obscure their vast systemic advantages should be the biggest possible tell.
- These people are almost to a one unbelievably stupid, ignorant, and morally broken, to the point where if their systemic advantages weren't taken as presumptive evidence extraordinary intelligence, knowledge, and goodness, they'd immediately crash and burn.
- And the real, absolute horror of the current system of instituted elite dominance is that it's entirely devoted to propping these pathetic jackasses up and foreclosing discussion or acknowledgment of how pitiful and vicious they really are -- even at the cost of breaking any functional society.
- The general strike worked in MPLS b/c MPLS is highly organized, that organization had already been activated, and people had substantial advanced notice re: so they could prepare. You can't just announce a national one the next week. Organizing isn't announcing stuff; it's making stuff practical.
