"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember." - Eugene McCarthy
***
Computer quotes from Edwin (I nixed the ones I didn't enjoy so much):
"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."
"unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep" - my daily unix command list
"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."
"COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."
This is so sexist!!! It trivialises the pain of periods and by setting up the dialectic of the Self and the Other, implies that women are not good enough to be COBOL programmers.
“Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” — Michael Sinz
Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."
"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."
"Windows95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.
"People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'."
"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light"
"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."
"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"
"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
"Better to be a geek than an idiot."
"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."
"Geek's favorite pickup line: Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform? "
"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."
"Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades."
"It's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages."
"The box said 'Required Windows 95 or better'. So, I installed LINUX."
"Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."
"Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."
"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end."
"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."
"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."
"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."
"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."
"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."
L'origine de Bert
Saturday, April 07, 2007
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan
***
Quotes:
What's the importance of the social sciences in Singapore? *Silence* Come on, at leas pretend they're important. Even though some people wanted to close down the Philosophy department here.
Social scientists, instead of solving the problem, will turn around the problem, or find a problem with the problem.
One of the earlier efforts, in the education system, was to write a manual on how to teach creativity. It was quite a thick manual, I was told.
[Me on metaphors for the state-citizen relationship: The teacher encourages the students to give their views, but if they're wrong he shouts them down.] I'm feeling very nervous at this point.
Students can demonstrate, they can stop coming to class. What stops them from having a 'class consciousness'?
Essays are modernist projects. They have arguments... they have a framework.
At least we have laws protecting our women. In the US they don't have laws protecting their women. [Many students: What?!] Do they? [US Student: YES!!!]
[On national projects vs welfare] They'll rather spend money building huge buildings, large airports, than throw money at people.
[Student on metaphors for the state-citizen relationship: I can choose which team to spport.] No you can't. There's only one party to vote for.
When the government goes head to head against the Malaysian government, all of us rally around and say how stupid the Malaysians are. Except *** [a Malaysian student]
[Student: Fucking hell.] I don't think there's fucking in hell... Otherwise a lot of people will be signing up for hell.
Who's your girl? [Student: I've no idea.] Stop doing this whole thing... And I'm the Queen of May. All bow to ***.
You know what's good about PGP food? Nothing.
[On her tube top] I just bought this, so it's too loose. [Student: Like you?]... [Student 2: There're 2 things you never call a girl. Slut and loose.
Why the hell would I be naked in the library?... Is there a naked library somewhere I should know about?
I don't know how guys juggle girls. It's a lot easier to juggle guys than juggle girls... [Student: Guys don't care]
Can you at least make it anonymous, otherwise my juggling days are over?... The easiest is overseas relationships. No one will ever know... the more nationalities, the better... I'm seriously gonna get multi-citizenships. There're a lot of prospects.
We have a huge masturbation community in Kent Ridge... This guy didn't close the blinds... [Student: Outside the block there's a PRC flat] The biggest sex scandal in hall involved a PRC. The biggest wanking scandal in hall involved a PRC.
From my room I can see this couple. The girl is always sitting on the guy's lap. Then when the blinds close... I need X-ray goggles.
[On Malay Fighter Pilots] There're more than one. Now there's two... They'll form a Malay squadron and defect to Malaysia.
Do guys think of suicide? [Student 2: I think there're guys who commit suicide too]... [Student 3: You think only girls commit suicide meh?]
Being gay and being into trannies is not the same thing. [Student: You mean you're into trannies?]
You know they say guys, when they're 24 years old, they're like 20... [Student: So when I was 4, I wasn't born yet... Must've been a retard who said that. Stupid feminists. I hate feminists.]
***
Quotes:
What's the importance of the social sciences in Singapore? *Silence* Come on, at leas pretend they're important. Even though some people wanted to close down the Philosophy department here.
Social scientists, instead of solving the problem, will turn around the problem, or find a problem with the problem.
One of the earlier efforts, in the education system, was to write a manual on how to teach creativity. It was quite a thick manual, I was told.
[Me on metaphors for the state-citizen relationship: The teacher encourages the students to give their views, but if they're wrong he shouts them down.] I'm feeling very nervous at this point.
Students can demonstrate, they can stop coming to class. What stops them from having a 'class consciousness'?
Essays are modernist projects. They have arguments... they have a framework.
At least we have laws protecting our women. In the US they don't have laws protecting their women. [Many students: What?!] Do they? [US Student: YES!!!]
[On national projects vs welfare] They'll rather spend money building huge buildings, large airports, than throw money at people.
[Student on metaphors for the state-citizen relationship: I can choose which team to spport.] No you can't. There's only one party to vote for.
When the government goes head to head against the Malaysian government, all of us rally around and say how stupid the Malaysians are. Except *** [a Malaysian student]
[Student: Fucking hell.] I don't think there's fucking in hell... Otherwise a lot of people will be signing up for hell.
Who's your girl? [Student: I've no idea.] Stop doing this whole thing... And I'm the Queen of May. All bow to ***.
You know what's good about PGP food? Nothing.
[On her tube top] I just bought this, so it's too loose. [Student: Like you?]... [Student 2: There're 2 things you never call a girl. Slut and loose.
Why the hell would I be naked in the library?... Is there a naked library somewhere I should know about?
I don't know how guys juggle girls. It's a lot easier to juggle guys than juggle girls... [Student: Guys don't care]
Can you at least make it anonymous, otherwise my juggling days are over?... The easiest is overseas relationships. No one will ever know... the more nationalities, the better... I'm seriously gonna get multi-citizenships. There're a lot of prospects.
We have a huge masturbation community in Kent Ridge... This guy didn't close the blinds... [Student: Outside the block there's a PRC flat] The biggest sex scandal in hall involved a PRC. The biggest wanking scandal in hall involved a PRC.
From my room I can see this couple. The girl is always sitting on the guy's lap. Then when the blinds close... I need X-ray goggles.
[On Malay Fighter Pilots] There're more than one. Now there's two... They'll form a Malay squadron and defect to Malaysia.
Do guys think of suicide? [Student 2: I think there're guys who commit suicide too]... [Student 3: You think only girls commit suicide meh?]
Being gay and being into trannies is not the same thing. [Student: You mean you're into trannies?]
You know they say guys, when they're 24 years old, they're like 20... [Student: So when I was 4, I wasn't born yet... Must've been a retard who said that. Stupid feminists. I hate feminists.]
Post ID: 8809519419030191498
Friday, April 06, 2007
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minority leader talk show 93.3fm
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Will the use of handphones make primary schools vigilant ?
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great ways to masterbate - Great, interesting, odd; what adjectives are left?
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image search: dicks exterior - This got Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtnis-Kirche.
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anna "planescape torment" erotic story "baldur's gate" - Wah, crossover.
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Edison chen took nude photos of himself)
NUS Maid Agency Course - If frying gao laak doesn't work we can retrain for this.
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daniel radcliffe large penis?
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Post ID: 8019151621858280118
Thursday, April 05, 2007
"A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time." - George Iles
***
jb: *** makes me want to punch his face in
and then a kick for good measure I suppose
in the ideal location
Me: so where do you kick girls?
jb: you don't kick girls
you slap them
...
wahlao
I typed the wrong thing twice in a row
I need a drink
brb
[later] I was going to get the sherry
but it's too alcoholic even for me
I went to get peanut butter bread instead
Someone: there is a girl in my school who passed away from cancer
and the Dean of Students sent out an email to the entire school
saying she attended classes till the day she couldn't walk
i'm thinking that's weird if you know you are terminal
Me: no wonder she died
MFM: I just sat through an hour of heavy-duty stats: one of the grad students I work with was defending his thesis. I think no one asked him difficult questions because they didn't understand his work
Someone: i'm trying out this new jap sweet from watson's
helps you lose weight
it's just 14 calories but it's full of basil seeds
so what you do is you eat the sweet and then you drink a glass of water, and the basil seeds expand in your stomach so you're not hungry at all
i just tried it out and now i'm omg full
12.90 for 10 pieces
damn effective tho, i dont even want to drink water after this i'm just too full
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but then against most of hte profs were fm ntu
Someone else: i dont club or drink
so whatever
waste of money
i read chomsky though
ahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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(aka no experience)
but we still act like we know anyway
we have to
Me: can you read this
putain de bordel de merde, tu me casses les couilles connard, va te faire enculer
Frigid Girl: wah lau
so many vulgarities
this sentence ah... it's like some person took the french dict and tried to squeeze every possible vulgarity into the most concise sentence
Me: what if I put this on my nick ;)
Frigid Girl: try lar. doubt she'll understand it
i only understood it cos i expressly went to learn all the vulgarities first
Me: wth
Frigid Girl: i make it a point when learning any language
it makes the language more practical
instead of theory
Me: uhh
...
Frigid Girl: girls are silly
they hug each other in front of guys for some exhibitionist purpose
used to happen all the time in RJ
i remember there was this guy who was chasing our Evil Cult prez
then she would meet up in the canteen with the various sectional leaders (girls) and then "heyyyyyy!!!!!! <3 <3" *hugs* *hugs*
and the guy would be next to her watching helplessly
haha
MFTTW on 'racism' and making 'irrational' generalizations: my friend's learning theory professor said even apes generalize
and you can model it mathematically
so it's scientifically sound to generalize
and she also said
these people should come to baltimore and walk around east b'more
and see if they can avoid getting racist
esp after getting mugged a few times :P
Me: "For that matter, it is difficult to understand how any kind of action is possible on the epistemological assumptions that postmodernists profess. Not only are their views on knowledge politically disabling, one cannot help wondering how they can conduct the normal business of everyday life without suspending their postmodernist disbelief. Either that, or postmod ernist theories are guilty of more than a little bad faith."
MFTTW: hiyah just cos your espouse a theory doesn't mena you have to live it out mah :P
people are hypocritical beings
we do it all the time and don't blink an eye
*** told me that she had a choice of project groups between joining 3 asians and 3 white girls
and she chose to join 3 asians.
and even though i have taught lazy asians
if i were white i would also join asians
instead of other white people
best, join the singaporeans. they work the hardest.
Me: YOU'RE RACIST!!!
MFTTW: yes i am. i don't even bother to deny it.
if all the crimes in *** city are committed by black people
it isn't racist to assume that if you see a black guy on the street walking towards you at 3am in the morning, he is going to rob you.
people who say "oh it's all contextual" clearly haven't been robbed in their lives.
***
jb: *** makes me want to punch his face in
and then a kick for good measure I suppose
in the ideal location
Me: so where do you kick girls?
jb: you don't kick girls
you slap them
...
wahlao
I typed the wrong thing twice in a row
I need a drink
brb
[later] I was going to get the sherry
but it's too alcoholic even for me
I went to get peanut butter bread instead
Someone: there is a girl in my school who passed away from cancer
and the Dean of Students sent out an email to the entire school
saying she attended classes till the day she couldn't walk
i'm thinking that's weird if you know you are terminal
Me: no wonder she died
MFM: I just sat through an hour of heavy-duty stats: one of the grad students I work with was defending his thesis. I think no one asked him difficult questions because they didn't understand his work
Someone: i'm trying out this new jap sweet from watson's
helps you lose weight
it's just 14 calories but it's full of basil seeds
so what you do is you eat the sweet and then you drink a glass of water, and the basil seeds expand in your stomach so you're not hungry at all
i just tried it out and now i'm omg full
12.90 for 10 pieces
damn effective tho, i dont even want to drink water after this i'm just too full
Someone: i assure u that smu accounting isn't bullshit
but then against most of hte profs were fm ntu
Someone else: i dont club or drink
so whatever
waste of money
i read chomsky though
ahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Frigid Girl on Literature being about sex: most of us have no freaking idea what we're talking about
(aka no experience)
but we still act like we know anyway
we have to
Me: can you read this
putain de bordel de merde, tu me casses les couilles connard, va te faire enculer
Frigid Girl: wah lau
so many vulgarities
this sentence ah... it's like some person took the french dict and tried to squeeze every possible vulgarity into the most concise sentence
Me: what if I put this on my nick ;)
Frigid Girl: try lar. doubt she'll understand it
i only understood it cos i expressly went to learn all the vulgarities first
Me: wth
Frigid Girl: i make it a point when learning any language
it makes the language more practical
instead of theory
Me: uhh
...
Frigid Girl: girls are silly
they hug each other in front of guys for some exhibitionist purpose
used to happen all the time in RJ
i remember there was this guy who was chasing our Evil Cult prez
then she would meet up in the canteen with the various sectional leaders (girls) and then "heyyyyyy!!!!!! <3 <3" *hugs* *hugs*
and the guy would be next to her watching helplessly
haha
MFTTW on 'racism' and making 'irrational' generalizations: my friend's learning theory professor said even apes generalize
and you can model it mathematically
so it's scientifically sound to generalize
and she also said
these people should come to baltimore and walk around east b'more
and see if they can avoid getting racist
esp after getting mugged a few times :P
Me: "For that matter, it is difficult to understand how any kind of action is possible on the epistemological assumptions that postmodernists profess. Not only are their views on knowledge politically disabling, one cannot help wondering how they can conduct the normal business of everyday life without suspending their postmodernist disbelief. Either that, or postmod ernist theories are guilty of more than a little bad faith."
MFTTW: hiyah just cos your espouse a theory doesn't mena you have to live it out mah :P
people are hypocritical beings
we do it all the time and don't blink an eye
*** told me that she had a choice of project groups between joining 3 asians and 3 white girls
and she chose to join 3 asians.
and even though i have taught lazy asians
if i were white i would also join asians
instead of other white people
best, join the singaporeans. they work the hardest.
Me: YOU'RE RACIST!!!
MFTTW: yes i am. i don't even bother to deny it.
if all the crimes in *** city are committed by black people
it isn't racist to assume that if you see a black guy on the street walking towards you at 3am in the morning, he is going to rob you.
people who say "oh it's all contextual" clearly haven't been robbed in their lives.
Post ID: 642820158563833525
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
What Is the "Postmodern" Agenda?
"On the face of it, this insistence on the social construction of knowledge may seem fairly unobjectionable and even conventional, not least for Marxists who have always recognized that no human knowledge comes to us unmediated, that all knowledge is appropriated through the medium of language and social practice. But postmodernists seem to have in mind something more extreme than this reasonable proposition. The most vivid illustration of postmodernist epistemology is their conception of scientific knowledge. Sometimes they go so far as to claim that Western science—founded on the conviction that nature is governed by certain universal, immutable, mathematical laws—is just an expression of the imperialistic and oppressive principles on which Western society is based. But short of that extreme claim, postmodernists—either deliberately or out of simple confusion and intellectual sloppiness—have a habit of conflating the forms of knowledge with its objects: it is as if they are saying not only that, for instance, the science of physics is a historical construct, which has tried over time and in different social contexts, but that the laws themselves are “socially constructed” and historically variable.
Postmodernists will often deny that they are epistemic relativists. They will insist that they know there is a “real” world out there. But the irony is that, in the very act of defending themselves, they are likely to prove the case against them and to demonstrate the very conflation (or confusion) of which I’m accusing them here—proceeding, for example, as if not only the science of physics but the physical reality represented by, say, the laws of thermodynamics is itself a historically variable social construct. They surely do not believe this to be literally true; but something like this is the practical consequence of the epistemological assumption that human knowledge is enclosed within particular languages, cultures, and interests, and that science should not and cannot aspire to apprehend or approximate some common external reality. If the standard of scientific “truth” resides not in the natural world itself but in the particular norms of specific communities, then the laws of nature might as well be nothing more than what any particular community says they are at any given time.
Not all intellectuals who think of themselves as “postmodernists” would knowingly subscribe to this kind of extreme epistemic relativism, even solipsism—though it seems an inevitable consequence of their epistemo logical assumptionsX at the very least, postmodernism implies an em phatic rejection of “totalizing” knowledge and of “universalistic” values—including Western conceptions of “rationality”... This denunciation of “essentialism” tends to cover not just truly monolithic and simplistic explanations of the world (like Stalinist varieties ot Marxism) but any kind of causal explanation...
Even in its least extreme manifestations, postmodernism insists on the impossibility of any emancipatory politics based on some kind of “totalizing” knowledge or vision. Even an anticapitalist politics is too “totalizing” or “universalist.” Capitalism as a totalizing system can hardly be said to exist at all in postmodern discourse, so that even the critique of capitalism is precluded. In fact, “politics” in any traditional sense of the word, having to do with the overarching power of classes or states and opposition to them, is effectively ruled out, giving way to the fractured struggles of “identity politics” or even the “personal as political.” Although there are more universal projects that do hold some attractions for the postmodern left, such as environmental politics, it is difficult to see how they—or, indeed, any political action—can be consistent with postmodernism’s most fundamental principles: a deep epistemological scepticism and a profound political defeatism.
How, then, does this postmodernism compare to earlier theories about end of the “modern” era? What is immediately striking is that postmodernism, which seems to combine so many features of older diagnoses of epochal decline, is remarkably unconscious of its own history. In their conviction that what they say represents a radical rupture with the past, today's postmodernist intellectuals seem sublimely oblivious to everything that has been said so many times before. Even the epistemological scepticism, the assault on universal truths and values, the questioning of self-identity, which are so much a part of the current intellectual fashions, have a history as old as philosophy...
This brings us to the most distinctive characteristic of the new postmodernists: despite their insistence on epochal differences and specificities, despite their claims to have exposed the historicity of all values and knowl edges (or precisely because of their insistence on “difference” and the fragmented nature of reality and human knowledge), they are remarkably insensitive to history. This insensitivity is revealed not least in a deafness to the reactionary echoes of their attacks on “Enlightenment” values and their fundamental irrationalism...
[C. Wright] Mills also took it for granted, in classic Enlightenment fashion, that the whole point of such historical analysis was to mark out the space of human freedom and agency, to formulate our choices and “enlarge the scope of human decisions in the making of history.” And for all his pessimism, he assumed that the limits of historical possibility were, in his time, “very broad indeed.”
This statement is in nearly every particular antithetical to current post-modernist theories, which effectively deny the very existence of structure or structural connections and the very possibility of “causal analysis.” Structures and causes have been replaced by fragments and contingencies. There is no such thing as a social system (e.g. the capitalist system) with its own systemic unity and “laws of motion.” There are only many differei kinds of power, oppression, identity, and “discourse.” Not only do we have to reject the old “grand narratives,” like Enlightenment concepts of progress, we have to give up any idea of intelligible historical process and causality, and with it, evidently, any idea of “making history.” There are no structured processes accessible to human knowledge (or, it must be supposed, to human action). There are only anarchic, disconnected, and inexplicable differences. For the first time, we have what appears to b contradiction in terms: a theory of epochal change based on a denial of history.
There is one other especially curious thing about the current postmodernism, one particularly notable paradox. On the one hand, the denial of history on which it is based is associated with a kind of political pessimism. Since there are no systems and no history susceptible to causal analysis, we cannot get to the root of the many powers that oppress us; and we certainly cannot aspire to some kind of united opposition, some kind of general human emancipation, or even a general contestation of capitalism, of the hind that socialists used to believe in. The most we can hope for is a lot of particular and separate resistances...
Even the postmodernist emphasis on language and “discourse” may be traceable to an obsession with consumer capitalism and to the conviction, already prominent in the sixties, that the old political agencies (the labor movement in particular) have been permanently “hegemonized” by capitalist consumerism. Postmodernism has simply taken to the ultimate, and often absurd, extreme the familiar attempt to replace these hegemonized agencies with new ones, by situating intellectual practice at the center of the social universe and promoting intellectuals—or, more particularly, academics-to the vanguard of historical agency.
Here too postmodernist intellectuals reveal their fundamental ahistoricism. The structural crises of capitalism since the “golden” moment of the postwar boom seem to have passed them right by, or at least to have made no significant theoretical impression. For some, this means that the opportunities for opposition to capitalism are severely limited. Others seem to be saying that, if we can't really change or even understand the system (or even think about a system at all), and if we don’t, and can’t, have a vantage point from which to criticize the system, let alone oppose it, we might as well lie back and enjoy it—or better still, go shopping...
Postmodernists reject Enlightenment universalism on the grounds that it denies the diversity of human experience, cultures, values, and identities; but this rejection of universalism on behalf of an emancipatory pluralism is contradictory and self-defeating. A healthy respect for difference and diversity, and for the plurality of struggles against various oppressions, does not oblige us to jettison all the universalistic values to which Marxism at its best has always been attached, or to abandon the idea of a universal human emancipation. On the contrary, even the mildest forms of “pluralism” have been unsustainable without appeals to certain universalistic values like the classic liberal principle of “toleration.” The radical pluralism espoused by postmodernists—based as it is on denying any fundamental commonality, or even the possibility of mutual access and understanding, among plural identities—has fatally undercut its own foundations. As Aijaz Ahmad puts it later in this volume: “if in the constitution of your identity, I have no rights of cognition, participation, criticism, then on what basis may you ask for my solidarity with you except on the basis of some piety, some voluntaristic good will that I can withdraw at any moment?” In the end, it is hard to imagine how any of the diverse struggles that supposedly constitute the left postmodernist agenda can be sustained without some appeal to those dreaded “modernist” and Enlightenment values of democracy, equality, social justice, and so on.
For that matter, it is difficult to understand how any kind of action is possible on the epistemological assumptions that postmodernists profess. Not only are their views on knowledge politically disabling, one cannot help wondering how they can conduct the normal business of everyday life without suspending their postmodernist disbelief. Either that, or postmodernist theories are guilty of more than a little bad faith...
For people on the left, and especially for a younger generation of intellectuals and students, the greatest appeal of postmodernism is its apparent openness, as against the alleged “closures” of a “totalizing” system like Marxism. But this claim to openness is largely spurious. The problem is not just that postmodernism represents an ineffectual kind of pluralism which undermined its own foundations. Nor is it simply an uncritical but harmless eclecticism. There is something more serious at stake. The "openness" of postmodernism’s fragmentary knowledges and its emphasis on "difference" are purchased at the price of much more fundamental closures. Postmodernism is, in its negative way, a ruthlessly “totalizing” system, which forecloses a vast range of critical thought and emancipatory politics— and its closures are final and decisive. Its epistemological assumptions make it unavailable to criticism, as immune to critique as the most rigid kind of dogma (how do you criticize a body of ideas that a priori rules out the very practice of “rational” argument?). And they preclude—not just by dogmatically rejecting but also by rendering impossible—a systematic un derstanding of our historical moment, a wholesale critique of capitalism, and just about any effective political action."
--- What Is the "Postmodern" Agenda? / Ellen Meiksins Wood, In defense of history : Marxism and the postmodern agenda (1997)
Postmodernists will often deny that they are epistemic relativists. They will insist that they know there is a “real” world out there. But the irony is that, in the very act of defending themselves, they are likely to prove the case against them and to demonstrate the very conflation (or confusion) of which I’m accusing them here—proceeding, for example, as if not only the science of physics but the physical reality represented by, say, the laws of thermodynamics is itself a historically variable social construct. They surely do not believe this to be literally true; but something like this is the practical consequence of the epistemological assumption that human knowledge is enclosed within particular languages, cultures, and interests, and that science should not and cannot aspire to apprehend or approximate some common external reality. If the standard of scientific “truth” resides not in the natural world itself but in the particular norms of specific communities, then the laws of nature might as well be nothing more than what any particular community says they are at any given time.
Not all intellectuals who think of themselves as “postmodernists” would knowingly subscribe to this kind of extreme epistemic relativism, even solipsism—though it seems an inevitable consequence of their epistemo logical assumptionsX at the very least, postmodernism implies an em phatic rejection of “totalizing” knowledge and of “universalistic” values—including Western conceptions of “rationality”... This denunciation of “essentialism” tends to cover not just truly monolithic and simplistic explanations of the world (like Stalinist varieties ot Marxism) but any kind of causal explanation...
Even in its least extreme manifestations, postmodernism insists on the impossibility of any emancipatory politics based on some kind of “totalizing” knowledge or vision. Even an anticapitalist politics is too “totalizing” or “universalist.” Capitalism as a totalizing system can hardly be said to exist at all in postmodern discourse, so that even the critique of capitalism is precluded. In fact, “politics” in any traditional sense of the word, having to do with the overarching power of classes or states and opposition to them, is effectively ruled out, giving way to the fractured struggles of “identity politics” or even the “personal as political.” Although there are more universal projects that do hold some attractions for the postmodern left, such as environmental politics, it is difficult to see how they—or, indeed, any political action—can be consistent with postmodernism’s most fundamental principles: a deep epistemological scepticism and a profound political defeatism.
How, then, does this postmodernism compare to earlier theories about end of the “modern” era? What is immediately striking is that postmodernism, which seems to combine so many features of older diagnoses of epochal decline, is remarkably unconscious of its own history. In their conviction that what they say represents a radical rupture with the past, today's postmodernist intellectuals seem sublimely oblivious to everything that has been said so many times before. Even the epistemological scepticism, the assault on universal truths and values, the questioning of self-identity, which are so much a part of the current intellectual fashions, have a history as old as philosophy...
This brings us to the most distinctive characteristic of the new postmodernists: despite their insistence on epochal differences and specificities, despite their claims to have exposed the historicity of all values and knowl edges (or precisely because of their insistence on “difference” and the fragmented nature of reality and human knowledge), they are remarkably insensitive to history. This insensitivity is revealed not least in a deafness to the reactionary echoes of their attacks on “Enlightenment” values and their fundamental irrationalism...
[C. Wright] Mills also took it for granted, in classic Enlightenment fashion, that the whole point of such historical analysis was to mark out the space of human freedom and agency, to formulate our choices and “enlarge the scope of human decisions in the making of history.” And for all his pessimism, he assumed that the limits of historical possibility were, in his time, “very broad indeed.”
This statement is in nearly every particular antithetical to current post-modernist theories, which effectively deny the very existence of structure or structural connections and the very possibility of “causal analysis.” Structures and causes have been replaced by fragments and contingencies. There is no such thing as a social system (e.g. the capitalist system) with its own systemic unity and “laws of motion.” There are only many differei kinds of power, oppression, identity, and “discourse.” Not only do we have to reject the old “grand narratives,” like Enlightenment concepts of progress, we have to give up any idea of intelligible historical process and causality, and with it, evidently, any idea of “making history.” There are no structured processes accessible to human knowledge (or, it must be supposed, to human action). There are only anarchic, disconnected, and inexplicable differences. For the first time, we have what appears to b contradiction in terms: a theory of epochal change based on a denial of history.
There is one other especially curious thing about the current postmodernism, one particularly notable paradox. On the one hand, the denial of history on which it is based is associated with a kind of political pessimism. Since there are no systems and no history susceptible to causal analysis, we cannot get to the root of the many powers that oppress us; and we certainly cannot aspire to some kind of united opposition, some kind of general human emancipation, or even a general contestation of capitalism, of the hind that socialists used to believe in. The most we can hope for is a lot of particular and separate resistances...
Even the postmodernist emphasis on language and “discourse” may be traceable to an obsession with consumer capitalism and to the conviction, already prominent in the sixties, that the old political agencies (the labor movement in particular) have been permanently “hegemonized” by capitalist consumerism. Postmodernism has simply taken to the ultimate, and often absurd, extreme the familiar attempt to replace these hegemonized agencies with new ones, by situating intellectual practice at the center of the social universe and promoting intellectuals—or, more particularly, academics-to the vanguard of historical agency.
Here too postmodernist intellectuals reveal their fundamental ahistoricism. The structural crises of capitalism since the “golden” moment of the postwar boom seem to have passed them right by, or at least to have made no significant theoretical impression. For some, this means that the opportunities for opposition to capitalism are severely limited. Others seem to be saying that, if we can't really change or even understand the system (or even think about a system at all), and if we don’t, and can’t, have a vantage point from which to criticize the system, let alone oppose it, we might as well lie back and enjoy it—or better still, go shopping...
Postmodernists reject Enlightenment universalism on the grounds that it denies the diversity of human experience, cultures, values, and identities; but this rejection of universalism on behalf of an emancipatory pluralism is contradictory and self-defeating. A healthy respect for difference and diversity, and for the plurality of struggles against various oppressions, does not oblige us to jettison all the universalistic values to which Marxism at its best has always been attached, or to abandon the idea of a universal human emancipation. On the contrary, even the mildest forms of “pluralism” have been unsustainable without appeals to certain universalistic values like the classic liberal principle of “toleration.” The radical pluralism espoused by postmodernists—based as it is on denying any fundamental commonality, or even the possibility of mutual access and understanding, among plural identities—has fatally undercut its own foundations. As Aijaz Ahmad puts it later in this volume: “if in the constitution of your identity, I have no rights of cognition, participation, criticism, then on what basis may you ask for my solidarity with you except on the basis of some piety, some voluntaristic good will that I can withdraw at any moment?” In the end, it is hard to imagine how any of the diverse struggles that supposedly constitute the left postmodernist agenda can be sustained without some appeal to those dreaded “modernist” and Enlightenment values of democracy, equality, social justice, and so on.
For that matter, it is difficult to understand how any kind of action is possible on the epistemological assumptions that postmodernists profess. Not only are their views on knowledge politically disabling, one cannot help wondering how they can conduct the normal business of everyday life without suspending their postmodernist disbelief. Either that, or postmodernist theories are guilty of more than a little bad faith...
For people on the left, and especially for a younger generation of intellectuals and students, the greatest appeal of postmodernism is its apparent openness, as against the alleged “closures” of a “totalizing” system like Marxism. But this claim to openness is largely spurious. The problem is not just that postmodernism represents an ineffectual kind of pluralism which undermined its own foundations. Nor is it simply an uncritical but harmless eclecticism. There is something more serious at stake. The "openness" of postmodernism’s fragmentary knowledges and its emphasis on "difference" are purchased at the price of much more fundamental closures. Postmodernism is, in its negative way, a ruthlessly “totalizing” system, which forecloses a vast range of critical thought and emancipatory politics— and its closures are final and decisive. Its epistemological assumptions make it unavailable to criticism, as immune to critique as the most rigid kind of dogma (how do you criticize a body of ideas that a priori rules out the very practice of “rational” argument?). And they preclude—not just by dogmatically rejecting but also by rendering impossible—a systematic un derstanding of our historical moment, a wholesale critique of capitalism, and just about any effective political action."
--- What Is the "Postmodern" Agenda? / Ellen Meiksins Wood, In defense of history : Marxism and the postmodern agenda (1997)
Post ID: 1023059138466879311
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Dug up by request, National Education lyrics set to Holst's "I Vow To Thee, My Country":
We feel the dawning of our day
Together as we sing
We'll touch the radiance of each ray
As voices louder ring
Yes the years of change we'll remember
As our fathers shaped this land of ours
Sunlight turns to amber glorious
In our youthful hand
Let us stride in one-ness and more hope
Our spirits all aglow
Be there challenges we'll always cope
In triumph as we grow
Feel dawn of each day
Voices ringing louder
Radiance of each ray
We who search the skies above
Share the courage of our heart
We who love will always know our part
Sanctified by light that shines beyond
We forge and share a bond
As the sun blaze on our evening sky
Again we hear you cry
We hear your cry
--- "We Share", Edwin Thumboo
(As sent to me in 2004; as far as I can tell this is the original form of the poem - I've already cleaned it up a little from the 2004 SYF arrangement)
We feel the dawning of our day
Together as we sing
We'll touch the radiance of each ray
As voices louder ring
Yes the years of change we'll remember
As our fathers shaped this land of ours
Sunlight turns to amber glorious
In our youthful hand
Let us stride in one-ness and more hope
Our spirits all aglow
Be there challenges we'll always cope
In triumph as we grow
Feel dawn of each day
Voices ringing louder
Radiance of each ray
We who search the skies above
Share the courage of our heart
We who love will always know our part
Sanctified by light that shines beyond
We forge and share a bond
As the sun blaze on our evening sky
Again we hear you cry
We hear your cry
--- "We Share", Edwin Thumboo
(As sent to me in 2004; as far as I can tell this is the original form of the poem - I've already cleaned it up a little from the 2004 SYF arrangement)
Post ID: 2320230712654468396
Someone: haha anyway do you enjoy poetry
i need help decoding something
ok hold on lemme find the text
ok here http://www.akoot.com/eecummings12.html
im trying to figure out what the last 2 lines mean
Me: haha e e cummings
haha lit is about sex
Someone: haha not all
Me: a lot :P
Someone: haha oh well
i suppose so
Me: when do you need to know?
Someone: well asap would be nice
Me: why don't you use the post-structuralist paradigm
then you can say anything and you won't be wrong
Someone: hahaha
usually you *can say anything in lit
but i have no clue wad a 'common divisor' is
and i think it specifically refers to a mathematical term
"kitty". sixteen, 5' 11", white, prostitute.
""kitty". sixteen, 5' 11", white, prostitute.
ducking always the touch of must and shall,
whose slippery body is Death's littlest pal,
skilled in quick softness. Unspontaneous. cute.
the signal perfume of whose unrepute
focusses in the sweet slow animal
bottomless eyes importantly banal,
Kitty. a whore. Sixteen
you corking brute
amused from time to time by clever drolls
fearsomely who do keep their sunday flower.
The babybreasted broad "kitty" twice eight
--beer nothing, the lady'll have a whiskey-sour--
whose least amazing smile is the most great
common divisor of unequal souls."
i need help decoding something
ok hold on lemme find the text
ok here http://www.akoot.com/eecummings12.html
im trying to figure out what the last 2 lines mean
Me: haha e e cummings
haha lit is about sex
Someone: haha not all
Me: a lot :P
Someone: haha oh well
i suppose so
Me: when do you need to know?
Someone: well asap would be nice
Me: why don't you use the post-structuralist paradigm
then you can say anything and you won't be wrong
Someone: hahaha
usually you *can say anything in lit
but i have no clue wad a 'common divisor' is
and i think it specifically refers to a mathematical term
"kitty". sixteen, 5' 11", white, prostitute.
""kitty". sixteen, 5' 11", white, prostitute.
ducking always the touch of must and shall,
whose slippery body is Death's littlest pal,
skilled in quick softness. Unspontaneous. cute.
the signal perfume of whose unrepute
focusses in the sweet slow animal
bottomless eyes importantly banal,
Kitty. a whore. Sixteen
you corking brute
amused from time to time by clever drolls
fearsomely who do keep their sunday flower.
The babybreasted broad "kitty" twice eight
--beer nothing, the lady'll have a whiskey-sour--
whose least amazing smile is the most great
common divisor of unequal souls."
Post ID: 7319404767593984047
My Facebook Fiance: oh shit
"home" by kit chan is playing on itunes
so sob
its a freedownload
hahaha!
"one people one nation one singapore"
when my roommate
freshmen year heard it
he said
"that's the dumbest song I've heard in my life"
Someone: autoimmune disease ma
kikuchi's disease
Me: are you going to die?
Someone: ....
Me: :P
Someone: gabriel are u 5?
hahahaha
Frigid Girl: bizet wrote FRENCH operas?!
Me: aiyah
give it up lah
LDPVTP: noooooooooo
i want him dead
(this is a typical example of my vindictiveness, btw)
Me: see?
LDPVTP: i never said i was not vindictive
i only protested the rest
Me: GAH
MFTTW: you are very bo liao lehhhh
i underestimated the extent to which you would go to further your bo-liaoness
it's almost antithecal to the spirit of being bo liao
cos you work so hard at it
MFM: this *** character is quite annoying, but I suspect I may have been like him when I was 16-18 years old
Me: hahahahahahaha
then what happened to you
MFM: I realised that I was not as smart as I thought
he should tone down by the time he gets to 3rd year of college
Me: haha
so am I cocky? :P
MFM: no
Me: that's nice to know
MFM: he's not just cocky, he's pretentious
for some reason people who speak french are extra pretentious
or maybe it's just that french is one of the most popular foreign languages
Me: nah the french themselves are pretentious
...
Me: blind men shouldn't cross roads, really
MFM: off-topic, but I know someone who had to pretend he was blind (sunglasses + using hiking pole as 'guiding stick') so that drivers in wales would slow down to let him cross the road
...
I have no idea what post-structuralism is, and I don't want to know
Me: 3 guys at once... just nice ah
Noodles: yeah, it felt really good
Someone: i went to ri very long time ago, when i was sec 1, for an open house
there was this guy who was terrified of girls. The moment he saw me approaching his direction he was like "no no don't come near!" and cowering
ri guys really look like they've been living with men for their whole lives
i went for a choir performance and the guys in the choir just stared at me
oh ya, i remembered a guy talking to his friends about my assets
Someone else: boys in year 1 are immature.
in year 2 also.
yr 3 they get better.
Me: ><
how about girls
the younger the better ah
Someone else: no
girls in yr 1 are too friggin geena. i couldnt get along with my peers very well
they seem to be getting more and more geena every year
Me: cos you getting more and more lao char bor
guys like geena
haha
Someone else: if they like then good for them. that's the problem with singapore men. they breed geena ah lians
thats why many singaporean men are cheena bengs with bad taste
thats why, i just get so disgusted with most of them i dont even bother anymore.
if they like them "cute" "short" "slim" "innocent" "blur" i mean admit it already, they want a girl to deflower, thats all.
and one that is lesser than them, can be cheated and wont cheat on them, and can be manipulated to do all sorts of lovey caring shit things for them
Tim the Great: yo yo ma's coming
and rostro celebrating his 80th in paris. he won't play
i need to decide which concerts to attend.
going for hahn, perlman, Ma, at least
you only went for baroque stuff in the netherlands ah
singapore got or not
next year's program is really quite good. (sir simon) rattle isn't coming though. never mind, there are a few people interested in a weekend trip to the waldbuhne next year.
these people aren't going to singapore ah. got anyone good or not
Me: singapore no baroque :(
Tim the Great: pianists:
brendel visits every year. also, kissin is coming with Ashkenazy as conductor. murray perahia with st martin in the fields.
too much good stuff.
notice: none of them are french.
Me: I move to france lah
yah french only know how to angst and whine and write rubbish
Tim the Great: kurt Masur is conducting a french orchestra here.
oh there's Pierre Boulez though. nasty modern stuff
about french:
how true that is.
"home" by kit chan is playing on itunes
so sob
its a freedownload
hahaha!
"one people one nation one singapore"
when my roommate
freshmen year heard it
he said
"that's the dumbest song I've heard in my life"
Someone: autoimmune disease ma
kikuchi's disease
Me: are you going to die?
Someone: ....
Me: :P
Someone: gabriel are u 5?
hahahaha
Frigid Girl: bizet wrote FRENCH operas?!
Me: aiyah
give it up lah
LDPVTP: noooooooooo
i want him dead
(this is a typical example of my vindictiveness, btw)
Me: see?
LDPVTP: i never said i was not vindictive
i only protested the rest
Me: GAH
MFTTW: you are very bo liao lehhhh
i underestimated the extent to which you would go to further your bo-liaoness
it's almost antithecal to the spirit of being bo liao
cos you work so hard at it
MFM: this *** character is quite annoying, but I suspect I may have been like him when I was 16-18 years old
Me: hahahahahahaha
then what happened to you
MFM: I realised that I was not as smart as I thought
he should tone down by the time he gets to 3rd year of college
Me: haha
so am I cocky? :P
MFM: no
Me: that's nice to know
MFM: he's not just cocky, he's pretentious
for some reason people who speak french are extra pretentious
or maybe it's just that french is one of the most popular foreign languages
Me: nah the french themselves are pretentious
...
Me: blind men shouldn't cross roads, really
MFM: off-topic, but I know someone who had to pretend he was blind (sunglasses + using hiking pole as 'guiding stick') so that drivers in wales would slow down to let him cross the road
...
I have no idea what post-structuralism is, and I don't want to know
Me: 3 guys at once... just nice ah
Noodles: yeah, it felt really good
Someone: i went to ri very long time ago, when i was sec 1, for an open house
there was this guy who was terrified of girls. The moment he saw me approaching his direction he was like "no no don't come near!" and cowering
ri guys really look like they've been living with men for their whole lives
i went for a choir performance and the guys in the choir just stared at me
oh ya, i remembered a guy talking to his friends about my assets
Someone else: boys in year 1 are immature.
in year 2 also.
yr 3 they get better.
Me: ><
how about girls
the younger the better ah
Someone else: no
girls in yr 1 are too friggin geena. i couldnt get along with my peers very well
they seem to be getting more and more geena every year
Me: cos you getting more and more lao char bor
guys like geena
haha
Someone else: if they like then good for them. that's the problem with singapore men. they breed geena ah lians
thats why many singaporean men are cheena bengs with bad taste
thats why, i just get so disgusted with most of them i dont even bother anymore.
if they like them "cute" "short" "slim" "innocent" "blur" i mean admit it already, they want a girl to deflower, thats all.
and one that is lesser than them, can be cheated and wont cheat on them, and can be manipulated to do all sorts of lovey caring shit things for them
Tim the Great: yo yo ma's coming
and rostro celebrating his 80th in paris. he won't play
i need to decide which concerts to attend.
going for hahn, perlman, Ma, at least
you only went for baroque stuff in the netherlands ah
singapore got or not
next year's program is really quite good. (sir simon) rattle isn't coming though. never mind, there are a few people interested in a weekend trip to the waldbuhne next year.
these people aren't going to singapore ah. got anyone good or not
Me: singapore no baroque :(
Tim the Great: pianists:
brendel visits every year. also, kissin is coming with Ashkenazy as conductor. murray perahia with st martin in the fields.
too much good stuff.
notice: none of them are french.
Me: I move to france lah
yah french only know how to angst and whine and write rubbish
Tim the Great: kurt Masur is conducting a french orchestra here.
oh there's Pierre Boulez though. nasty modern stuff
about french:
how true that is.
Post ID: 6928043272790133432
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Normally I find these incredibly lame, but tonight I'm giving someone a Fortune Cookie as a Facebook gift (he asked for anyone to give him one):
Confucius say, top 100
1. Confucius say, virginity like bubble. One prick - all gone
11. Confucius say, passionate kiss like spider web, soon lead to undoing of fly
19. Confucius say, man with tool in woman's mouth not necessarily dentist
21. Confucius say, sex is like the army, the closer you are to discharge, the better you feel
29. Confucius say, man who run through airport turnstile backward going to Bangkok (the one I eventually chose)
32. Confucius say, to meet girl in park is good, but to park meat in girl is better
35. Confucius say, man who live in glass house, should change in basement
43. Confucius say, foolish man give wife grand piano, wise man give wife upright organ
46. Confucius say, woman who go to man's apartment for snack, get titbit
72. Confucius say, sex on beach like American beer - fucking near water
89. Confucius say, man who fall in vat of molten glass, make spectacle of self
91. Confucius say, man who push piano down mine shaft, likely to get A flat minor
92. Confucius say, man who put cock on stove, have hot rod
95. Confucius say, man who fuck in cemetery may end up fucking dead
99. Confucius say, man who finger girl having period get caught red handed
Confucius say, top 100
1. Confucius say, virginity like bubble. One prick - all gone
11. Confucius say, passionate kiss like spider web, soon lead to undoing of fly
19. Confucius say, man with tool in woman's mouth not necessarily dentist
21. Confucius say, sex is like the army, the closer you are to discharge, the better you feel
29. Confucius say, man who run through airport turnstile backward going to Bangkok (the one I eventually chose)
32. Confucius say, to meet girl in park is good, but to park meat in girl is better
35. Confucius say, man who live in glass house, should change in basement
43. Confucius say, foolish man give wife grand piano, wise man give wife upright organ
46. Confucius say, woman who go to man's apartment for snack, get titbit
72. Confucius say, sex on beach like American beer - fucking near water
89. Confucius say, man who fall in vat of molten glass, make spectacle of self
91. Confucius say, man who push piano down mine shaft, likely to get A flat minor
92. Confucius say, man who put cock on stove, have hot rod
95. Confucius say, man who fuck in cemetery may end up fucking dead
99. Confucius say, man who finger girl having period get caught red handed
Post ID: 4262267988708426384
"One area where the evidence is less clear-cut than the findings presented in World Development Report 1997 is the issue of public sector pay and its effects on corruption. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that the low wages available to civil servants in many developing countries drive them to take bribes in order to supplement their incomes. While at least one study has found systematic cross-country evidence of higher corruption being associated with lower wages in a sample of 28 countries, other studies covering more countries fail to do so. Many of these studies also do not distinguish between countries where petty corruption (which is more likely to be influenced by salaries) and grand corruption (which is less likely to be influenced by salaries) are important.
Careful country-specific analysis is beginning to provide more nuanced evidence on the relative importance of wages and other factors for corruption. For example, a study of procurement contracts in public hospitals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, found that a 10 percent increase in the salary of procurement officers was associated with a 1.2 percent reduction in prices paid for hospital supplies. However, this relationship between pay and performance was apparent only after a crackdown on corruption had been in effect for a period of six months. The crackdown itself also had significant effects on procurement prices, initially lowering them by an average of 18 percent—although this effect weakened over time. Interestingly, this particular crackdown achieved significant results without threats of penalties for wrongdoing. Instead, the staff of the health secretary simply collected data on the procurement prices of basic hospital supplies from each hospital and then circulated this information among all hospitals on a regular basis.
Political institutions that restrain politicians from arbitrary actions, and institutions that hold politicians accountable for their actions, can help reduce the opportunities and incentives for corruption...
The effectiveness of elections as a disciplining device depends on two factors. The first is the extent to which elections are free and fair. Without this minimum condition, elections cannot serve to discipline politicians and sanction them for corrupt practices. Second, provided that elections are in fact free and fair, there is evidence that the design of electoral rules themselves influence the accountability of individual politicians to their constituents.
Recent research has focused on two dimensions of electoral rules that matter for accountability. The first is the extent to which electoral systems reward or punish individual candidates relative to political parties. When legislatures are selected by proportional representation, with candidates chosen from party lists, voters can vote only against particular parties and not against individuals whom they perceive as corrupt. As a result individual politicians have less reason to fear that they will be punished at the ballot box for engaging in corrupt practices. The second is the extent to which electoral rules create barriers to entry for new political parties. When new parties find it difficult to gain representation in the legislature, it is more difficult for them to challenge corrupt incumbents. One factor determining the ease of entry for new political parties is the number of representatives per electoral district, since it is easier for smaller parties to win seats in districts with multiple representatives.
Press freedom and civil society
Lack of information breeds corruption. When the actions of public officials are not subject to scrutiny by the general public, opportunities for official misconduct become more attractive... Without widespread information on the extent of public wrongdoing, the public disgust with corruption that is essential to implementing reforms is slow to form...
The media can help provide information by vigorous investigation and reporting of allegations of public malfeasance. For the media to be effective in this role, they need to be free from political pressures that prevent investigation and reporting of scandals that would embarrass those in power. Across countries, there is a clear association between indicators of press freedom and absence of corruption. An important factor in this regard is media ownership. When the media are controlled by the state, they are more likely to be subject to political pressures (chapter 10).39 The quality of media coverage is also likely to be important in determining the extent to which decentralization will lower corruption."
--- World Bank, World Development Report, 2002
Careful country-specific analysis is beginning to provide more nuanced evidence on the relative importance of wages and other factors for corruption. For example, a study of procurement contracts in public hospitals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, found that a 10 percent increase in the salary of procurement officers was associated with a 1.2 percent reduction in prices paid for hospital supplies. However, this relationship between pay and performance was apparent only after a crackdown on corruption had been in effect for a period of six months. The crackdown itself also had significant effects on procurement prices, initially lowering them by an average of 18 percent—although this effect weakened over time. Interestingly, this particular crackdown achieved significant results without threats of penalties for wrongdoing. Instead, the staff of the health secretary simply collected data on the procurement prices of basic hospital supplies from each hospital and then circulated this information among all hospitals on a regular basis.
Political institutions that restrain politicians from arbitrary actions, and institutions that hold politicians accountable for their actions, can help reduce the opportunities and incentives for corruption...
The effectiveness of elections as a disciplining device depends on two factors. The first is the extent to which elections are free and fair. Without this minimum condition, elections cannot serve to discipline politicians and sanction them for corrupt practices. Second, provided that elections are in fact free and fair, there is evidence that the design of electoral rules themselves influence the accountability of individual politicians to their constituents.
Recent research has focused on two dimensions of electoral rules that matter for accountability. The first is the extent to which electoral systems reward or punish individual candidates relative to political parties. When legislatures are selected by proportional representation, with candidates chosen from party lists, voters can vote only against particular parties and not against individuals whom they perceive as corrupt. As a result individual politicians have less reason to fear that they will be punished at the ballot box for engaging in corrupt practices. The second is the extent to which electoral rules create barriers to entry for new political parties. When new parties find it difficult to gain representation in the legislature, it is more difficult for them to challenge corrupt incumbents. One factor determining the ease of entry for new political parties is the number of representatives per electoral district, since it is easier for smaller parties to win seats in districts with multiple representatives.
Press freedom and civil society
Lack of information breeds corruption. When the actions of public officials are not subject to scrutiny by the general public, opportunities for official misconduct become more attractive... Without widespread information on the extent of public wrongdoing, the public disgust with corruption that is essential to implementing reforms is slow to form...
The media can help provide information by vigorous investigation and reporting of allegations of public malfeasance. For the media to be effective in this role, they need to be free from political pressures that prevent investigation and reporting of scandals that would embarrass those in power. Across countries, there is a clear association between indicators of press freedom and absence of corruption. An important factor in this regard is media ownership. When the media are controlled by the state, they are more likely to be subject to political pressures (chapter 10).39 The quality of media coverage is also likely to be important in determining the extent to which decentralization will lower corruption."
--- World Bank, World Development Report, 2002
Post ID: 6267416804638491236
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." - Russell Baker
***
Quotes:
I actually look okay in this picture. [Me: So you look like shit normally? Okay.]... You're supposed to contradict me. [Student 2: It's a girl game.]
[Me: It's her second UTI? {Urinary Tract Infection}] [Student 2: Third.] *** has interesting friends.
[Lecturer: Today's lecture deals with a somewhat empirircally oriented theoretical subject. What does that mean?] *Sotto voce* It means usually econs is useless. Here it's useful.
A variational technique or a perturbation technique. I am fond of big words.
In economics there are many Euler equations. Euler was just so creative.
In the real world there're borrowing constraints. Suppose you go to the bank and say 'Today I'm a poor student. In 10 years I'll be the Prime Minister of Singapore'.
C1 is excessive sensitive to W1 (excessively)
[On Jensen's Inequalty] I'm in Applied Maths, not Pure Maths.
S papers are supposed to make you more creative... If you just do Maths, Physics, More Maths, More Physics - I'm sorry to the Maths and Physics people.
[On purposefully mistranslating propaganda songs] We were trying to find the government-approved version, but we couldn't, so we took some artistic license.
[On Semoga Bahagia and Propaganda] I sang this song for 6 years in Primary School and I never knew what it meant.
Reasons why you should go to SMU: the girls are hotter, you can develop relationships with your project mates because there're so many projects, you can talk to professors to upgrade your grades
I remember when my friend started using Friendster, she used her picture, then no one messaged her. She change it to a picture of her stroking her cat. Then all the guys started to message her.
Just think about your experience in groupwork... 2 people in a group - probably okay. 3 - you have the problem of free-riding. And that's only three.
[On a presentation] I'm gonna skip some animations which I did last weekend and have forgotten why.
I went to Japan one day. I went to Toyota. Every morning they pledge allegiance to the flag of [Toyota]
In Japan, reputation is so important. if you are accused of a crime, the proper thing to do is commit suicide. The Livedoor chief is an exception.
[On criticism] As the saying goes, as my mother tells me, if the tree has a lot of ripe fruit, everyone will be throwing stones at it.
I'm going to make a heretic statement (heretical)
an'trer'prer'neer (entrepreneur)
[Lecutrer: What is democracy?] Chaos.
Do you enjoy having long hair? [Me: Do you think I'm masochistic?]... Are you attracted to girls?... Some guys are not attracted to girls [, some are asexual and not necessarily gay]... [Me: Half the people think I'm gay.] You're not gay. [Me: Half the people think I'm asexual]... Does it bother you?
[Student: Do you think the longer your name is the more zai {brilliant} you are?] No. The PRC scholars are all 2-syllables. (all have 2-syllable names)
[On the goverment] They ignore the post-modernist, who is just standing around making noise.
[On stopping NKF corruption] You can pay him more so that he can afford to take First Class flights on his own salary.
You're not allowed to quote me without my express permission.
*** - is that your real name? There's this friend of his. I don't know her name. He calls her 'Frigid Girl'
Here maybe I did [something] wrongly. No no, it's ok, it's ok... I hope I solved [the problem] correctly here.
First degree. Second degree. Third degree price discrimination. It is hard to remember... I had [a] discovery. I came to [a] conclusion. First degree price discrimination is not hard to remember. (made)
Uncertianty is the last topic where you will have real exercises. The rest, small topics. Just blah blah.
[On my hair] Damn nice. Can I kope [take] from you?
I wake up in the middle of the night and ask you: utility should be concave or convex? [Student, sotto voce: I'll tell him I want to sleep]
There are two important numbers in the world. First is this [e]. Second is pi.
[On someone] Her shopping bag is bigger than her school bag. That tells you about her priorities.
I'm sure all of you have been eagerly awaiting - optimal control theory. Today you will finally learn simple optimal control theory.
You're not required to know the proof of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. I also don't know it. You just employ it. Like a recipe - cook book.
You can look up another book by Alpha Chiang. 'Fundamentals Methods of Dynamic Optimization'... forget the 'Fundamentals'.
Next week we'll have an even more exciting problem.
[On her survey] Are you done? [Me: I'm deconstructing your methodology] [Student 2: You shouldn't give a survey to Gabriel]
Is it okay to be massaged by a guy with a girlfriend?... [Student 2: There's no such thing as a clean massage... and there's nothing wrong with that]
[On anonymous feedback] Even if you put it anonymously, everyone will know it's Gabriel. (give)
[To me] I can see the mockery in your expression, the slight smirk in your smile.
I like Frigid Girls... De-frigidifying them.
The one ironical thing about NUS to me is that girls come to lectures in the shortest skirts and shorts, and then wear a big jacket because they're cold.
[On chili and endorphins] Now you know why people walk on ifre.
[On his term paper] I had to stoop to consulting a children's encyclopedia.
[On not answering her handphone] You know why? Because I like this song so i let it ring freely.
difficult is notation (notation is difficult)
[On becoming more risk averse when you become richer] Why it may happen? People are greedy, for example... I have 5 billion dollars. I don't even want to lose $10.
I think more gays have hit on me than women. [Student: Sadly, I think that's the case for me too]
[On a survey] Why [do] you ask me for my hobbies? [Do] You want to find a boyfriend is it? (boyfriend)
[Me: The have 'Harvard College in Asia'. Do they have 'NUS College in Harvard'?] That's the first question I asked last year.
***
Quotes:
I actually look okay in this picture. [Me: So you look like shit normally? Okay.]... You're supposed to contradict me. [Student 2: It's a girl game.]
[Me: It's her second UTI? {Urinary Tract Infection}] [Student 2: Third.] *** has interesting friends.
[Lecturer: Today's lecture deals with a somewhat empirircally oriented theoretical subject. What does that mean?] *Sotto voce* It means usually econs is useless. Here it's useful.
A variational technique or a perturbation technique. I am fond of big words.
In economics there are many Euler equations. Euler was just so creative.
In the real world there're borrowing constraints. Suppose you go to the bank and say 'Today I'm a poor student. In 10 years I'll be the Prime Minister of Singapore'.
C1 is excessive sensitive to W1 (excessively)
[On Jensen's Inequalty] I'm in Applied Maths, not Pure Maths.
S papers are supposed to make you more creative... If you just do Maths, Physics, More Maths, More Physics - I'm sorry to the Maths and Physics people.
[On purposefully mistranslating propaganda songs] We were trying to find the government-approved version, but we couldn't, so we took some artistic license.
[On Semoga Bahagia and Propaganda] I sang this song for 6 years in Primary School and I never knew what it meant.
Reasons why you should go to SMU: the girls are hotter, you can develop relationships with your project mates because there're so many projects, you can talk to professors to upgrade your grades
I remember when my friend started using Friendster, she used her picture, then no one messaged her. She change it to a picture of her stroking her cat. Then all the guys started to message her.
Just think about your experience in groupwork... 2 people in a group - probably okay. 3 - you have the problem of free-riding. And that's only three.
[On a presentation] I'm gonna skip some animations which I did last weekend and have forgotten why.
I went to Japan one day. I went to Toyota. Every morning they pledge allegiance to the flag of [Toyota]
In Japan, reputation is so important. if you are accused of a crime, the proper thing to do is commit suicide. The Livedoor chief is an exception.
[On criticism] As the saying goes, as my mother tells me, if the tree has a lot of ripe fruit, everyone will be throwing stones at it.
I'm going to make a heretic statement (heretical)
an'trer'prer'neer (entrepreneur)
[Lecutrer: What is democracy?] Chaos.
Do you enjoy having long hair? [Me: Do you think I'm masochistic?]... Are you attracted to girls?... Some guys are not attracted to girls [, some are asexual and not necessarily gay]... [Me: Half the people think I'm gay.] You're not gay. [Me: Half the people think I'm asexual]... Does it bother you?
[Student: Do you think the longer your name is the more zai {brilliant} you are?] No. The PRC scholars are all 2-syllables. (all have 2-syllable names)
[On the goverment] They ignore the post-modernist, who is just standing around making noise.
[On stopping NKF corruption] You can pay him more so that he can afford to take First Class flights on his own salary.
You're not allowed to quote me without my express permission.
*** - is that your real name? There's this friend of his. I don't know her name. He calls her 'Frigid Girl'
Here maybe I did [something] wrongly. No no, it's ok, it's ok... I hope I solved [the problem] correctly here.
First degree. Second degree. Third degree price discrimination. It is hard to remember... I had [a] discovery. I came to [a] conclusion. First degree price discrimination is not hard to remember. (made)
Uncertianty is the last topic where you will have real exercises. The rest, small topics. Just blah blah.
[On my hair] Damn nice. Can I kope [take] from you?
I wake up in the middle of the night and ask you: utility should be concave or convex? [Student, sotto voce: I'll tell him I want to sleep]
There are two important numbers in the world. First is this [e]. Second is pi.
[On someone] Her shopping bag is bigger than her school bag. That tells you about her priorities.
I'm sure all of you have been eagerly awaiting - optimal control theory. Today you will finally learn simple optimal control theory.
You're not required to know the proof of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. I also don't know it. You just employ it. Like a recipe - cook book.
You can look up another book by Alpha Chiang. 'Fundamentals Methods of Dynamic Optimization'... forget the 'Fundamentals'.
Next week we'll have an even more exciting problem.
[On her survey] Are you done? [Me: I'm deconstructing your methodology] [Student 2: You shouldn't give a survey to Gabriel]
Is it okay to be massaged by a guy with a girlfriend?... [Student 2: There's no such thing as a clean massage... and there's nothing wrong with that]
[On anonymous feedback] Even if you put it anonymously, everyone will know it's Gabriel. (give)
[To me] I can see the mockery in your expression, the slight smirk in your smile.
I like Frigid Girls... De-frigidifying them.
The one ironical thing about NUS to me is that girls come to lectures in the shortest skirts and shorts, and then wear a big jacket because they're cold.
[On chili and endorphins] Now you know why people walk on ifre.
[On his term paper] I had to stoop to consulting a children's encyclopedia.
[On not answering her handphone] You know why? Because I like this song so i let it ring freely.
difficult is notation (notation is difficult)
[On becoming more risk averse when you become richer] Why it may happen? People are greedy, for example... I have 5 billion dollars. I don't even want to lose $10.
I think more gays have hit on me than women. [Student: Sadly, I think that's the case for me too]
[On a survey] Why [do] you ask me for my hobbies? [Do] You want to find a boyfriend is it? (boyfriend)
[Me: The have 'Harvard College in Asia'. Do they have 'NUS College in Harvard'?] That's the first question I asked last year.
Post ID: 225573111765044154
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." - Peter Ustinov
***
Abdul's lovingly stitched video of what we spend group meetings doing.
If you're wondering what the music playing in the middle of the video is, it's from the Sheares Hall 2005/2006 Block A senior farewell video. Full video (and more besides) downloading at Sheares Hall : SHout - For Shearites Out There!
When life's a little sad,
It's fun to have a pet, like this.
So when you're feeling scared
Of being lonely, like that.
You just have to stroke a cat.
And everything won't seem so bad.
So I had to borrow and stroke
This lovely little cat
Why must the bed shine?
I play with myself
it's bad for my health
Why must the bed shine?
Oh it really sucks to be left on the shelf
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed shine?
Pumping my balls
I hear my blockmates call
It's the sound of all the lonely people in hall
In the morning I wake
Feeling all lovesick
There's no one but my wooden hockey stick
So I pump my balls,
And I stroke my stick
As the action gets quick
I even, even take a lick
Why must the bed shine?
I play with myself
it's bad for my health
Why must the bed shine?
Oh it really sucks to be left on the shelf
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed shine?
***
Abdul's lovingly stitched video of what we spend group meetings doing.
If you're wondering what the music playing in the middle of the video is, it's from the Sheares Hall 2005/2006 Block A senior farewell video. Full video (and more besides) downloading at Sheares Hall : SHout - For Shearites Out There!
When life's a little sad,
It's fun to have a pet, like this.
So when you're feeling scared
Of being lonely, like that.
You just have to stroke a cat.
And everything won't seem so bad.
So I had to borrow and stroke
This lovely little cat
Why must the bed shine?
I play with myself
it's bad for my health
Why must the bed shine?
Oh it really sucks to be left on the shelf
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed shine?
Pumping my balls
I hear my blockmates call
It's the sound of all the lonely people in hall
In the morning I wake
Feeling all lovesick
There's no one but my wooden hockey stick
So I pump my balls,
And I stroke my stick
As the action gets quick
I even, even take a lick
Why must the bed shine?
I play with myself
it's bad for my health
Why must the bed shine?
Oh it really sucks to be left on the shelf
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed?
Why must the bed shine?
Post ID: 3763434476139441380
Friday, March 30, 2007
"You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible - not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide - I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert - not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That's the story of Noah. I mean, that's beyond genocide - you don't know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive - that's supposed to be gentle and wonderful." --- Noam Chomsky
We must condemn the committing of atrocities, lynching and hate-mongering
***
methegirl3: China is driving me nuts.
"This place is crazy. Sure, there're the occasional perks like eating sticks of pineapples that miraculously appears out of the blue on the streets. And then there's the cheap everything as well, whatever.
But cheap isn't necessarily good, as I have just found out. I have grown out of the "best buy must buy!" phase. I am now going for quality thanks to the lessons China gave.
Our house is falling apart, seriously. The sink is forever clogged. My roommate unclogs it by pouring chemicals. I unclog it by using a new plunger. Then the toilet is clogged. Then the toilet cover is broken. Then the washing machine is broken. Then the windows in the apartment does not shut so dirt and cold air comes in.
I would not live here again unless I have to. I will be so glad to get out of China when I do. I'm not having fun dealing with stuff that are of such poor quality!"
someone:
6.
OFFER: cat scarer
Posted by: "***" ***@*** ***
Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:38 pm (PST)
I have a cat scarer going spare. It picks up on body heat and emits a high pitched sound (theoretically inaudible to human ears, but that depends on your hearing) in response to warm objects like cats - very effective.
***
Cock's travelogue:
1- I've managed to lose my hat this trip so far, which I'd only owned for a year. So long, hat!
5- Last evenıng, about 5 mınutes after the traın pulled out of Thessalonıkı statıon, I managed to make the whole traın stop. How? Well, my cabın compartment was pıtch dark, and I was tryıng to feel for a lıght swıtch. I felt thıs handle and pulled ıt. Instead of the lıghts comıng on there was thıs loud whıstle sound. Apparently I had pulled the handle for the emergency whıstle stop. Oops. Fortunately apart from a not-too-amused traın conductor there were no other repercussıons from the ıncıdent.
We must condemn the committing of atrocities, lynching and hate-mongering
***
methegirl3: China is driving me nuts.
"This place is crazy. Sure, there're the occasional perks like eating sticks of pineapples that miraculously appears out of the blue on the streets. And then there's the cheap everything as well, whatever.
But cheap isn't necessarily good, as I have just found out. I have grown out of the "best buy must buy!" phase. I am now going for quality thanks to the lessons China gave.
Our house is falling apart, seriously. The sink is forever clogged. My roommate unclogs it by pouring chemicals. I unclog it by using a new plunger. Then the toilet is clogged. Then the toilet cover is broken. Then the washing machine is broken. Then the windows in the apartment does not shut so dirt and cold air comes in.
I would not live here again unless I have to. I will be so glad to get out of China when I do. I'm not having fun dealing with stuff that are of such poor quality!"
someone:
6.
OFFER: cat scarer
Posted by: "***" ***@*** ***
Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:38 pm (PST)
I have a cat scarer going spare. It picks up on body heat and emits a high pitched sound (theoretically inaudible to human ears, but that depends on your hearing) in response to warm objects like cats - very effective.
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Cock's travelogue:
1- I've managed to lose my hat this trip so far, which I'd only owned for a year. So long, hat!
5- Last evenıng, about 5 mınutes after the traın pulled out of Thessalonıkı statıon, I managed to make the whole traın stop. How? Well, my cabın compartment was pıtch dark, and I was tryıng to feel for a lıght swıtch. I felt thıs handle and pulled ıt. Instead of the lıghts comıng on there was thıs loud whıstle sound. Apparently I had pulled the handle for the emergency whıstle stop. Oops. Fortunately apart from a not-too-amused traın conductor there were no other repercussıons from the ıncıdent.
Post ID: 2451516413742311981
"This is the first time I'm seeing a movie with no plot" - Someone on McCabe and Mrs Miller (who is going on to say that women shouldn't fight for equality because equality is constructed by men [?])
I thought Don't Come Knocking was bad, but this was even worse. At least in the former there was a motive and the movie was going somewhere. In this, things happen for no reason and the indistinct dialogue doesn't help things (I had to check Wikipedia to find out wth was going on).
This got 89% on Rotten Romatoes, and Don't Come Knocking got 41%, which confirms my aphorism that if the critics love a show, it can either be really good or really bad, but if they hate it, it's probably really bad (unless it's so bad it's good).
I thought Don't Come Knocking was bad, but this was even worse. At least in the former there was a motive and the movie was going somewhere. In this, things happen for no reason and the indistinct dialogue doesn't help things (I had to check Wikipedia to find out wth was going on).
This got 89% on Rotten Romatoes, and Don't Come Knocking got 41%, which confirms my aphorism that if the critics love a show, it can either be really good or really bad, but if they hate it, it's probably really bad (unless it's so bad it's good).
Post ID: 1560636731905301470
"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman
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"In Indonesia prior to 1998, many firms reputedly benefited from their close connections with the government in power at that time. A recent study examined 79 Indonesian firms with varying degrees of connectedness with the Suharto family and studied how their share prices responded to news about then-President Suharto’s health. It found that the share prices of firms that relied more on connections with the Suharto family fell much more sharply than those of other firms in response to news that Suharto’s health—and so his influence—were waning (see figure below). Based on this result, the study concluded that as much as one-quarter of the value of politically connected firms was attributable to their connections."
--- World Bank, World Development Report 2002
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"In Indonesia prior to 1998, many firms reputedly benefited from their close connections with the government in power at that time. A recent study examined 79 Indonesian firms with varying degrees of connectedness with the Suharto family and studied how their share prices responded to news about then-President Suharto’s health. It found that the share prices of firms that relied more on connections with the Suharto family fell much more sharply than those of other firms in response to news that Suharto’s health—and so his influence—were waning (see figure below). Based on this result, the study concluded that as much as one-quarter of the value of politically connected firms was attributable to their connections."
--- World Bank, World Development Report 2002
Post ID: 6299431619310895873
"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles." - George Jean Nathan
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Bizarre spam mails I got:
Subject: free mature pussy pics
Message:
Hi guys,
I found so much useful things here.
Thank you.
Subject: back room facial
Message:
My mind is like a fog.
I don't care.
That's how it is.
The script must be broken.
And one that betrays a shocking depth of statistical illiteracy (as well as questionable assumptions about female behavior):
Subject: I knew you couldn't trust her
Message: Don’t let her get it from someone else.
A recent survey has shown us that 4 out of 5 women who cheat do it because their spouse has a small P$NIS.
Another survery shows us that 3 out of 5 men have a below average P$NIS.
Do you need anymore evidence?
***
Bizarre spam mails I got:
Subject: free mature pussy pics
Message:
Hi guys,
I found so much useful things here.
Thank you.
Subject: back room facial
Message:
My mind is like a fog.
I don't care.
That's how it is.
The script must be broken.
And one that betrays a shocking depth of statistical illiteracy (as well as questionable assumptions about female behavior):
Subject: I knew you couldn't trust her
Message: Don’t let her get it from someone else.
A recent survey has shown us that 4 out of 5 women who cheat do it because their spouse has a small P$NIS.
Another survery shows us that 3 out of 5 men have a below average P$NIS.
Do you need anymore evidence?
Post ID: 9159924086670452309
Thursday, March 29, 2007
"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." - Colette
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Bring me bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrow of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I shall not cease from mental fight:
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
- Parry - Jerusalem (Extract), words William Blake
***
Bring me bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrow of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I shall not cease from mental fight:
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
- Parry - Jerusalem (Extract), words William Blake
Post ID: 6676501271248121521
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