double negatives

i've often wondered about the double negative
immigrants from horror succeeding brilliantly in america, 
children grown in affluence exceeding grandparents wildest dreams,
only to struggle for the rest of their life doing junk.
little that a vegetable couldn't accomplish.

what is it about this place that curses the children?
warren and bill worried but unknowing,
a quartet of kochs struggling for something.
how is it that the disembodied head of the king of france 
was the brain of a clockmaker? 

is it the need to deserve?
to own both custer's and sitting bull's rifles.
as if history could rub off,
significance could be experienced.
joy escaped without sorrow. 

cato reminds me of the great ring of rome
the ring that brutus wore into battle
only to be lost among the dead and forgotten.
can it be that significance is not objective?

that what is missed is the poverty and its significance.
that what we are looking at is old fashioned envy
clothed in the violent fur of a skinny rodent?

REH 2010 November 15

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandwichman
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 4:39 PM
To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION
Subject: [Futurework] Negative Social and Environmental Externalities as the
Engine of "Growth"

Stefano Bartolini has written several papers looking at how negative
social and environmental externalities are acting as an engine of
growth as people spend money to try to escape those effects. I've
linked to a couple of papers by Bartolini and also to a paper by Roefi
Hueting at Ecological Headstand.

http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.com/

-- 
Sandwichman
_______________________________________________
Futurework mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework

_______________________________________________
Futurework mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework

Reply via email to