Many thanks.
Much as people rightly admire John Nash for his
recovery, without drugs, from a long standing psychotic illness, I have to say
that the comments below could also fit. ie the disorder could be seen as an
_expression_ in turn of psychosocial factors on the individual. Even that
Part of the problem is that few NYT reporters in Moscow actually
speak Russian beyond a rudimentary level. And even the occasional one
who does doesn't feel comfy with the popular characters you mention -
the pro-Western liberals are just their kind of people.
Doug
To give credit where
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi in todays Asia Times examines whether Iran is
acquiescing in or subverting the US occupation of Iraq, and concludes it is
doing both in tandem in response to a complex and fluid situation.
On the one hand, the Iranians would like to see threatening US forces
expelled from the
(From todays Financial Times)
Iraq's rebel cleric gains surge in popularity
By Roula Khalaf in Baghdad
An Iraqi poll to be released next week shows a surge in the popularity of
Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical young Shia cleric fighting coalition forces,
and suggests nearly nine out of 10 Iraqis see
When the torture story first broke, Rush Limbaugh made a number of
outrageous remarks about the revelations, including calling the abuses
by U.S. soldiers pretty thoughtful and a brilliant maneuver.
was radio channel surfing the other day and heard limbaugh
comparing prisoner abuse photos to
was radio channel surfing the other day and heard limbaugh
comparing prisoner abuse photos to robert mapplethorpe's
work, he suggested that people who are criticizing sexual
humiliation/degradation/torture of iragis are same folks who have
promoted porno agenda and celebrated likes of
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My reading of Mirowsky is that he argues that Nash
formulated the problem the way he did because he was
paranoid schizophrenic. I don't think Nash's paranoid
schizophrenic equilibrium is wrong. I just think it is
paranoid schizophrenic.
Sabri
^^
If we say that capitalism has mostly
A note on how an orientalist fantasy about the Arab Mind may have
motivated the photographing of sexual torture at Abu Ghraib and why
orientalism says more about orientalists than the so-called
orientals:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/05/orientalist-torture.html.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages:
I thought the appropriate psychological orientation for success in
capitalism was to be a psychopath. At least that is the hypothesis of the
Corporation documentary.
http://www.thetyee.ca/Entertainment/current/The+Corporation+Shrinking+the+Psychopath.htm
By a quirk of legal fiction, our courts
MASSIVE OIL RESERVES FOUND INSIDE DICK CHENEY -- By Andy Borowitz.
Bush Vows to Liberate Vice President
Enormous reserves of petroleum rivaling those found in such oil-rich
nations as Saudi Arabia and Djibouti have been discovered inside Vice
President Dick Cheney, the White House confirmed
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Bush administration wants the U.N. Security
Council to renew a controversial resolution exempting American peacekeepers
from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court.
Two years ago the same resolution was adopted unanimously after the United
States
You're right: psychopathy or sociopathy (what the DSM IV calls antisocial personality
disorder) describes the most successful personality disorder under capitalism. The
problem (in terms of individual success) with schizophrenia is that it involves
self-destruction. The person with
Jim:
As far as I could tell, you were saying that because Nash was crazy, NE
was wrong in some
sense.
Response: What got Nash the Nobel was his attempted rescue of
neoclassical theory from a critical contradiction: How is it that two or
more
k hanly wrote:
I thought the appropriate psychological orientation for success in
capitalism was to be a psychopath. At least that is the hypothesis of
the
Corporation documentary.
http://www.thetyee.ca/Entertainment/current/
The+Corporation+Shrinking+the+Psychopath.htm
By a quirk of legal
I wonder if anyone can (a) confirm/correct the following anecdote and
(b) identify a source for it. I read it someplace long ago but no longer
remember where.
Shortly after one of Marx's vacations in Germany in which he had been
luxuriously entertained by some of his aristocratic friends, someone
NY Times, May 20, 2004
Sikh Who Saved India's Economy Is Named Premier
By AMY WALDMAN
NEW DELHI, May 19 - Manmohan Singh, the gentlemanly Oxford-educated
economist who saved India from economic collapse in 1991 and began the
liberalization of its economy, has been appointed the country's next
Louis Proyect wrote:
NY Times, May 20, 2004
Sikh Who Saved India's Economy Is Named Premier
By AMY WALDMAN
NEW DELHI, May 19 - Manmohan Singh, the gentlemanly Oxford-educated
economist who saved India from economic collapse in 1991 and began the
liberalization of its economy, has been
The story below heightens, once again, my concern that the electoral,
political, social and sexual abuse of the people of other countries
by the US government most of my life will eventually turn on the
American people who, in the main, have so quietly acquiesced in the
wrongdoings of the
LOL. Well, Jim, the oil stock sell-offs for profiting-taking have
already happened...so we've got to be talkin' negative fundamentals and
expectations of earnings downgrades now. :)
Devine, James wrote:
MASSIVE OIL RESERVES FOUND INSIDE DICK CHENEY -- By Andy Borowitz.
Bush Vows to Liberate
In a message dated 5/17/2004 9:53:39 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, Mark Jones is ultimately correct. At some point natural conditions will drive up the price of hydrocarbons. The only question is about timing.
Comment
And a broken clock is right at least two
http://199.249.170.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000515956
Reuters Stands by Iraq Abuse Reports, Releases Timeline on Incident
By Greg Mitchell
Published: May 20, 2004 4:00 PM EST
NEW YORK Despite official military statements denying any wrongdoing -- and
an announcement
Ralph Nader all but endorsed John Kerry for president in an interview yesterday with
the New York Times, effectively undercutting those of his supporters who want to
define his candidacy as a sharp break with the Democrats.
Nader told the Times that Kerry was very presidential, and indicated
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