The Crow's Eye: Memoriam

"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Mar 5, 2013

Memoriam

I pity the fate of Venezuela.

8 comments:

Tao Dao Man said...: I am sure the West has released the jackals.; March 5, 2013 at 9:05 PM
Jack Crow said...: I'd wager they were ready to go, sort of like what's prepared for Cuba, RZ.; March 5, 2013 at 10:48 PM
Tao Dao Man said...: Absolutely.
I have a feeling they might be getting some unwanted push back from Brazil and the BRICS this time though.; March 6, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Anonymous said...: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34201.htm; March 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM
tsisageya said...: Why pity?; March 9, 2013 at 6:56 PM
Jack Crow said...: tsis,

Because I don't imagine Maduro has the coalition necessary to survive the coming intervention. An election is due halfway through April, and if Carpriles wins, he will begin to dismantle what the Chavistas have spent the better part of two decades building. And given the "basket case economy" assumed by the technocrats (see above post), neo-liberalization, privatization and the restoration of the old Castillo aristocracy are on the menu.; March 9, 2013 at 9:44 PM
tsis said...: Wow, Jack. You seem very knowledgeable, which I, apparently, am not.

Still, though, why pity?; March 11, 2013 at 6:21 PM
Jack Crow said...: Just some google-fu and a passing interest in Venezuela, tsis. I do not have a scholarly depth, being hostile to academia as I am.; March 11, 2013 at 11:16 PM

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This one took a while to put into words.

I don't kid myself that I've stumbled upon a unique insight and I have little doubt that someone has already written or said this better than I. Five minutes after I hit the "publish" button, I'll probably regret the choice of words more than I already do now - because it's difficult to get my head outside of English language usage, to comment on a problem with that usage, whilst using the English language to do so.

In the interest of not making more of an ass of myself than necessary, I've pared a very long thesis down to a paragraph:

I find it troubling that, using English, I have very limited choice in expressing how I relate to people with whom I have ongoing interaction. If I want to reference the nature of my relations with the woman who has challenged me to grow in ways I never imagined possible, the woman who howled with a primal, gorgeous, earth shattering, mother bear of a refrain, transcending pain and pleasure in act of creation to which I will never be immediate party, who has with her defiant and proud womanhood still intact forged a family out of disparate parts - I have to write "my wife." I have to reduce her to property. That really pisses me off. I don't own her. I don't fucking want the title or the claim. I don't want to express possession, simply to refer to her (without writing a discursive dissertation). I don't like one bit that the short hand for "association" in English is expressed in the possessive. I don't own my wife or my children. They're not mine.

So, fuck you Latin and Germanic branches of the Indo-European language group.

That is all.