[TheForge] Re: guardrails and handrails

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Andy Vida wrote:

>Mike Spencer wrote:
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>>Andy quoth:
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>>>the goal is to generate a bill.  And so it was true.  Without the
>>>bill, it is as you say, nothing more than a hobby.
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>>[Rant-mode ON]
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>>    This little squibb of mercenary pseudo-wisdom is a sour rendering
>>    in the mode of pop anecdote of the feeble-minded reductionism of
>>    MBA school, biz jargon nattering and religious economics.  You
>>    flossinaucinihilipilify the numerous -- possibly arbitrarily
>>    numerous -- dimensions of human intent and action into the single
>>    dimension of bottom line.  That is the risible tool of all those
>>    people in biz who can manage neither complexity nor ambiguity and
>>    who consequently can achieve self-esteem only by attaching it to
>>    the single variable of net cash.
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>	Holy hell... can someone please tell me what this means?
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Bux ain't the be all and end all after all....PF

>>    Your pejorative "nothing more than a hobby" follows the lead of
>>    the Religion of Economics in conflating all purpose, intent,
>>    desire and creation not associated with a mercenary exchange into
>>    putatively pointless frivolity and dismissing it as "friction" or
>>    as an irrelevancy in the single-valued purity of commerce.
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>	Jesus Christ, I feel ignorant.  I think I need a dictionary
>	now.  Or an edumacation.
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