Comments on The 100%’s by CK MacLeod

Had no idea that a Chris Rock Hair existed. And how dare you brand our comments "facetious"?! We FedEx'd the last of our facetiousness to South Sudan.

Yes, hope is the enemy, and we must never change anything. Even time should stop, and for that reason I support a ban on clocks.

miguel cervantes: Obama’s M.O, to redistribute our resources, to world’s ’99%

Would that be the pipeline carrying our precious bodily fluids directly to Sri Lanka? Seems like a good plan to me, now that the aircraft carriers have hauled the last of our redwoods to Indonesia.

You will not be shocked to learn that I agree with you. In fact, if I had thought about the subject longer before posting, I would have made a different or more organized and detailed argument about the 99% term. First of all, what's kind of been bothering me all day, is that I don't know if anyone's pointed out that the notion that 99% of the world is starving children is an ugly, ethnocentric exaggeration. It's "true enough" only in the sense that for a lot of the kids occupying Wall Street, trying to live like the wretched of the Earth live would be impossible. They might as well be starving children as workers on a Southeast Asian assembly line. But the average citizen of country a, b, or c doesn't think of his or her life as a desperate starvation begging for a handout. They have pride in themselves, their families, tribes, nations, religions, cultures, etc.

But if you take away the ugly photo, the idea that "99%" ought to be globalized would from a zombie-Marxist perspective be very consciousness-raising. It would require us to look at class instead of abstract income/consumption figures. But we'd still have the very real problem that most Americans have a great deal of difficulty identifying and aligning with the global proletariat, and, in the classic p.b. manner, enjoy, rely on, and will aggressively defend the bases of their actual material superiority and associated sense of personal superiority.

It is your fallible servant having screwed up. Will fix in a jiffy.