Billmon sets Three laws.
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July 29, 2004
Billmon: I, Republican
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Robot theologians?
That’s bird lime.
Pull up a pew…
Thoreau should be our laconic preacher:
The rich man is sold to that which makes him rich.
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Rather … than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Aren’t you glad you don’t have to wear one of those chokers (esp. those blood red ties)?
And aren’t you elated not to have to take orders from some peckerwood in a double-breasted suit?
I sure am.
Owe no corporation as much as a dime.
Live debt free or die.
And remember…everything that matters in life is free or nearly free: Honest food, used books, the love of a mate, health, and friendship.
I, human.
Posted by: koreyel | Jul 29 2004 19:52 utc | 1
@koreyel
yes, Animal Farm and 1984 all rolled up to be “USA 2004”.
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jul 29 2004 20:30 utc | 2
Edmund Burke said it best:
“Nothing is so fatal to a nation as an extreme of self-partiality, and the total want of consideration of what others will naturally hope or fear”
Some whiff or two at our convention, a distinct putrid odour come the elephant’s turn.
Posted by: Anonymous | Jul 29 2004 20:56 utc | 3
Extending the analogy to Asimov’s laws, then, the Zeroth Law:
0. A Republican cannot harm the system of corporate domination, or through inaction allow the system of corporate domination to come to harm.
And, of course, the 1st through 3rd laws have to be adapted to include the caveat that they apply only so far as they do not conflict with the Zeroth.
Posted by: cmdicely | Jul 29 2004 23:36 utc | 5
The boy is back.
Vintage Billmon.
Top shelf.
koreyel @ 3:52 –
Aren’t you glad you don’t have to wear one of those chokers (esp. those blood red ties)?
If only.
My school requires such a bib.
(Though like the ketchup, not red.)
Amen to the rest, though.
Live debt free or
Arbeit macht frei or
Some damn thing.
Still a wage slave.
Even more a coffee slave.
Oh well.
Posted by: sasando | Jul 30 2004 0:22 utc | 6