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JakobVirgil  ·  3783 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Coming Democratic Schism - NYTimes.com

A way to be Left and still enjoy the benefits of exploitation.

Shopping at Hole Foods and having gay friends as an ablution

It works and is entirely more pleasant

you don't have to hang with poor people and union folks.

JakobVirgil  ·  3796 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Poetry's Alive, We Just Call It Rap

I think "academic" poetry took the left turn into irrelevance at the exact moment the MFA was invented. Work done to impress ones adviser is not likely to be anything but obtuse and rarefied.

It also limits the class of "real" poets to college types. Middle class kids that could afford to have a romantic major.

Of course there are exceptions and in my opinion these exceptions tend to be stronger poets.

Replace poet with painter, journalist, writer or jazz musician and I think it reads as true.

JakobVirgil  ·  3803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski -- some observations

I got a extra we will say that it is from you.

JakobVirgil  ·  4331 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When Circlebroke broke

I marked it reddit so that my cool friends won't know.

JakobVirgil  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An interesting question

Because it is unpaid

Because it assumes that some humans are not as human as others.

Because it robs folks of their humanity

Because it degrades the morality of the owners.

Because it steals labor

Because it sets up power relationships that lead to sexual abuse

JakobVirgil  ·  3921 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Book Club: Watchmen Final Discussion

The author of the book of Kings answers the question of who is fit to be a king by offers us three cases 3 men Saul (a prophet), David (a hero) and Solomon (the wisest man in the world). (s)he than shows us how each of them failed and hence no man should be king. (S)he was prolly some kinda anarchist or romanticized the rule of the Judges.

I think the archmagnus Alan Moore is using the same rhetorical plan. He presents us with each of the Superhero archetypes and shows us how they are Naive, unhuman, or just plain evil.

The high tech dilettante - is just play acting

The heroine - is just furniture

the superman - has no human connection

the vigilante - is a sociopath

the genius - is a conman

the super soldier - is a scumbag

Capes suck

JakobVirgil  ·  3924 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any other reddit exiles ?

My theory is that the following scheme leads to fragmentation as size scales up.

The structure of future hubski will look more like twitter than reddit.

Also following people rather than issues make one remember they are people.

JakobVirgil  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Experiment: What's YOUR most controversial opinion, Hubski?

The Idea that gets me into the most trouble is that I think that chance and bullshitery are more powerful than "genius" and "hard work".

It seems to me to be kinda obvious but folks get angry.

JakobVirgil  ·  4343 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm a crummy poet, but I'm writing a poem a day for 2013

I will write a poem everyday based on yours.

JakobVirgil  ·  4319 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A ridiculous phone app that I want

android? I think I could do this weekend what should we call it?