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That's very pretty, melo, but it ain't David Foster Wallace, and it, too, misses the point.

The point, which I've made TO the great man himself, is that democracy doesn't work with humans, and that there is nothing he can do to tune up the great engine of equality, because humans aren't equal, and most people feel about politics as they do about a malfunctioning washing machine: it's necessary, but they don't know how it works, and they don't intend to fix it, but want it fixed conveniently, and on the cheap.

A formula inviting parasites that really works. There's no evil in it, it's just evolution in action.

And that's why people hate evolution as a scary concept.

And that's why George hates me.

Align culture with our nature. Ot else!

by ormondotvos (ormond.otvosnospamgmialcon) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 03:28:20 AM EST
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thanks for the wry feedback to my rant-ette.

off to read some DFW!

who's the great man, btw? and george who?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 07:26:50 AM EST
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Washington, probably (both questions).
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 08:10:56 AM EST
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then this ormondotvos:
which I've made TO the great man himself
is poetic license? time travel? tibetan herbs?

thanks, btw!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 09:06:36 AM EST
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All things are possible to those who Know.

Even name-dropping.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 10:19:17 AM EST
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