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From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fyi] What is Realism in Iraq?
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:01:33 +0000


Henry wrote:

>Paddy Chayevsky might be helpful in a non-deterministic, non-lawlike way 
>from
>"Network":
>
>Jensen (CEO):  "You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and 
>people.
>There are no Russians. There are no nations. There are no people. There are
>no Arabs. There are no third worlds. THERE IS NO WEST. There is only one
>holistic system of systems. One vast, interwoven, interacting, 
>multi-variant,
>multi-national dominion of dollars. Petrodollars, electrodollars, 
>multidollars,
>Reichmarks, yen, RUBLES, POUNDS, and sheckels. It is the international 
>system, the
>currency, which determines the totality of life on the planet. That is the
>natural order of things today.
>
>"THAT IS THE ATOMIC AND THE SUBATOMIC AND GALACTIC STRUCTURE OF THINGS 
>TODAY.
>AND YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE.
>
>  "AND YOU WILL ATONE!
>
>"Am I getting through you, Mr. Beal?
>
>"You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and
>democracy. There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM 
>and ITT and
>AT&T and Dupont and Dow and Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations 
>of
>today.

What about MCI? They used to give ATT grief. But oh right, they're gone now. 
Must have pre-calculated their own disappearance. And IBM? Used to be THE 
giant. Now there's Intel. And Compaq. And Dell. And...and...and.... and in 
20 years, the list will be different again. That pre-calculation is not 
looking very good. And Exxon? You must mean Exxon/Mobil. Yeah, saw that 
coming 10 years ago. Wish I did - would be wealthy now. And Dupont? Oh yeah, 
their merger with Chemfirst got delayed by a plant explosion. Didn't see 
that coming. Nor did I see their merger with Pioneer coming 10, 5, or even 2 
years ago. That pre-calculation would have come in handy.

For such pre-calculation, there sure are a lot of surprises, and demises.

>"What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl
>Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, stoical decision 
>theories,
>minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their
>transactions and investments. Just like we do.

And where are they now? Must have pre-calculated their own disappearance.

>"We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beal. The 
>world
>is a business, Mr. Beal, and it has been since man crawled out of the 
>slime.
>
>"Our children will live, Mr. Beal, to see that (perfect world) in which 
>there
>is no war and famine, oppression or brutality.
>
>"One vast and ecumenical holy cup for whom all men will work to serve a
>common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock.
>
>"All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

Massive ontic/ontological conflation of anxiety here. Unless, that is, he's 
not talking about Heidegger, in which case the point is moot.

Anthony Crifasi

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