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September 23, 2006
WB: How I’m Feeling At the Moment
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Back in my rural, Southern home town, there was a saying for situations of extreme confusion and frustration: “I don’t know whether to shit or go blind!”
Posted by: Roger Bigod | Sep 23 2006 7:12 utc | 1
I really wish I could hitch a ride on a Vogon battle cruiser at this point. Can’t really see the point of hanging around here anymore.
Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 23 2006 8:08 utc | 2
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I could teach my feet to fly
joni mitchell
Posted by: conchita | Sep 23 2006 16:13 utc | 4
… the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly … : ‘Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?’ … after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves
– Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 24 2006 17:37 utc | 5
why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves
It takes a Marquis de Sade or a Jean Genet to answer that question.
Posted by: billmon | Sep 24 2006 17:47 utc | 6
The Grand Inquisitor in Brothers Karamazov had some hard sayings on the subject too.
Posted by: Roger Bigod | Sep 24 2006 19:10 utc | 7