QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The crash was caused by greed, not social policy. The problem was that banks were using derivative tricks to successfully disguise toxic subprime loans as good investments. All that housing credit was available because it was profitable for banks to offer it, not because they were forced by Fannie/Freddie or anyone else to lend it.”

Matt Taibbi

“Those among the fortunate rich who are not, in the rigorous sense, damned, can understand the neediness of poverty, because they are needy themselves, after a fashion; but they cannot understand true impoverishment.

Capable of giving alms, perhaps, but incapable of stripping themselves bare, they will be moved to the sound of beautiful music, at Jesus’s sufferings— but His Cross, the reality of the self-denial of His Cross, will horrify them. For they want it all out of gold, bathed in light, costly and of little weight; pleasant to see, and hanging from a beautiful woman’s throat.”

Léon Bloy


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suzanna
suzanna

Matt Taibbi is correct.

Leon Bloy says the rich are clueless,
actually the real “rich” don’t wear
their wealth.

i forget
i forget

Greed absent an institutionalized biological transmission is as self-limiting as impotence. Countries (nationstate govs) – which is really just the humanimal love of herding & mobbing & lynching & enslaving – is the little blue pill engine that could…as in barra•could•a.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0OX_8YvFxA

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