Not just something I pulled out of my ...
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:37 pm
In one message I posted approximately three weeks ago (which was deleted by the forum powers that be), I made reference to currently-campaigning Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who's fairly known in much of Canada for his occasionally ridiculous econo-euphoric over-enthusiasm towards the creation of jobs in Canada or for Canadians out-of-country (in fact, in a few interviews I watched/read over the years he even came across as being strangely excited at the prospect of job creation in any nation, anywhere).
Don’t be mistaken: economists—or at least the students of such with whom I attended one college semester—can behave far too enthusiastically about the money-sport-monitoring profession, sometimes as though they were artificially intoxicated (though I knew they were not). While they absurdly placed the economy at the top of their ladder of importance, they placed the health of the environment at the bottom—and I can imagine they felt especially so during a provincial or federal election campaign.
What they very much appeared to be idolizing, i.e. the economy in its entirety, they bizarrely made multiple references to via their discussions as though the economy was an actual thing (to closely paraphrase scientist and environmental activist David Suzuki). From my perspective, the existence of the economy as an actual thing is somewhat comparable to time being referred to as an actual thing, the latter basically being utilized by humans as a form of reference to what we know as matter and energy in arrow’s-time motion. The economy can’t be allowed to rule the day and especially not the quality of the air and water we need without exception to survive.
Thus I took the initiative in sardonically suggesting that he “experiences multiple orgasms” at just learning of such econo-euphoria-inducing job-creation news, amongst other such economic-growth related treats for the intrinsically money-minded.
But to be perfectly clear, I did not say nor intend to at all imply that anything auto-erotic, in any form, occurred between the said econo-uphoria and multiple orgasms on anyone’s part, let alone on the part of PM Harper. Regardless of how his anti-eco-system (non)policies greatly anger me I’m not about to go that far into plainly perverse claims about any politician (unless, of course, he’s in fact been caught doing something along the lines of the Pee-wee-Herman thing back in 1991).
The post was entirely compelled by my significant frustrations with Harper and Party’s overall economic-growth-at-all-cost mentality and, far more worrisome, brain-donor practise. Without properly functioning eco-systems and environmental stability—most notable being the air and water we consume—economic/job growth essentially means nothing. What part of that simple fact do Harper and Party not understand?
You can have a healthy planet without an economy and job growth, but there’s definitely no economy whatsoever without a livable planetary environment.
Frank Sterle Jr
Don’t be mistaken: economists—or at least the students of such with whom I attended one college semester—can behave far too enthusiastically about the money-sport-monitoring profession, sometimes as though they were artificially intoxicated (though I knew they were not). While they absurdly placed the economy at the top of their ladder of importance, they placed the health of the environment at the bottom—and I can imagine they felt especially so during a provincial or federal election campaign.
What they very much appeared to be idolizing, i.e. the economy in its entirety, they bizarrely made multiple references to via their discussions as though the economy was an actual thing (to closely paraphrase scientist and environmental activist David Suzuki). From my perspective, the existence of the economy as an actual thing is somewhat comparable to time being referred to as an actual thing, the latter basically being utilized by humans as a form of reference to what we know as matter and energy in arrow’s-time motion. The economy can’t be allowed to rule the day and especially not the quality of the air and water we need without exception to survive.
Thus I took the initiative in sardonically suggesting that he “experiences multiple orgasms” at just learning of such econo-euphoria-inducing job-creation news, amongst other such economic-growth related treats for the intrinsically money-minded.
But to be perfectly clear, I did not say nor intend to at all imply that anything auto-erotic, in any form, occurred between the said econo-uphoria and multiple orgasms on anyone’s part, let alone on the part of PM Harper. Regardless of how his anti-eco-system (non)policies greatly anger me I’m not about to go that far into plainly perverse claims about any politician (unless, of course, he’s in fact been caught doing something along the lines of the Pee-wee-Herman thing back in 1991).
The post was entirely compelled by my significant frustrations with Harper and Party’s overall economic-growth-at-all-cost mentality and, far more worrisome, brain-donor practise. Without properly functioning eco-systems and environmental stability—most notable being the air and water we consume—economic/job growth essentially means nothing. What part of that simple fact do Harper and Party not understand?
You can have a healthy planet without an economy and job growth, but there’s definitely no economy whatsoever without a livable planetary environment.
Frank Sterle Jr
