Auto bailout 'an obvious kabuki theater exercise'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8149/
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
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American dreams: Diary of a mad law professor
The Nation
by Patricia J. Williams
12/16/08
On December 8 the front page of the New York Times featured an arresting image of three snow-white SUVs on the altar of a Pentecostal church in Detroit. Like bullocks led to sacrifice, they were parked amid a swirl of parishioners in choir robes, arms raised in song and seeming supplication. The caption revealed that they were praying for the auto industry to be saved. It might be tempting for some to dismiss such pageantry as idolatry, this beseeched-for sustenance embodied in a once-golden calf, now a dried-up cash cow. But as passion play, it is powerfully evocative of an American spirit. If I were the proverbial Martian anthropologist, I’d see similarities between those SUV anthems and a rain dance, or the miracle of the loaves and fishes. We pray for the cod to be plentiful, we pray for the corn crop, we pray for a harvest of cars. We look for divine signs that our traditional sources of abundance have not been driven to the point of drought or extinction...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081229/williams?rel=hp_picks
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=automaker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Kunstler
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patricia+J.+Williams
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
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American dreams: Diary of a mad law professor
The Nation
by Patricia J. Williams
12/16/08
On December 8 the front page of the New York Times featured an arresting image of three snow-white SUVs on the altar of a Pentecostal church in Detroit. Like bullocks led to sacrifice, they were parked amid a swirl of parishioners in choir robes, arms raised in song and seeming supplication. The caption revealed that they were praying for the auto industry to be saved. It might be tempting for some to dismiss such pageantry as idolatry, this beseeched-for sustenance embodied in a once-golden calf, now a dried-up cash cow. But as passion play, it is powerfully evocative of an American spirit. If I were the proverbial Martian anthropologist, I’d see similarities between those SUV anthems and a rain dance, or the miracle of the loaves and fishes. We pray for the cod to be plentiful, we pray for the corn crop, we pray for a harvest of cars. We look for divine signs that our traditional sources of abundance have not been driven to the point of drought or extinction...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081229/williams?rel=hp_picks
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=automaker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Kunstler
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patricia+J.+Williams
rudkla - 16. Dez, 05:31
