Talk Elections

There is no constructive point.  but it's fun.

the implications we can draw from this simple quote are so expansive, the nature of the pithy words so profound, that I fear I could go on forever.  in order to proceed I will have to divide the quote into two, its two constituent sentences.  first, "There is no constructive point."  this strikes right at the heart of the destructive-alienating Zeitgeist that afflicts the life-world of post-modern capitalism.  activities are only seen as 'worth doing' if there is a 'point'.  in fact allow me to break the third wall with an anecdote.  in my Anthropology of Sport class we were confronted with this strange question.  "is surfing religion?"  I thought for a bit and responded.  I stated, and I paraphrase, "it seems anytime that we are confronted with the force of human passion, that cannot be explained away with the language and tired formulae vis-a-vis the accumulation of commodities, we don't quite know what to make of it.  especially amongst the political class, libido tied in knots, printing six figure salaries a year, taking our unbankruptable student debt in hand just to make it there -- and meanwhile, right under our noses, on some idyllic shore near San Diego, sits stoner Jim, who has surfed every day for 30 years.  and he has no money but he's happier than we are... and we don't know what to say!  we can't reconcile it with our world!  so we need to reach for the language of the other-worldly, call it religion, call it spiritual, call it anything but grounded in the Real, because if empirically grounded, it would turn our philosophy of life square on its head."

if we take note of Napoleon's utter failure to address these issues, the certification of aforementioned Napoleon is clearly in violation of Article 1, Section 5, Clause 30, which requires the Republic act to protect the interests of those in employment, in order to safeguard the Public Health.  it is likely that Napoleon knows absolutely nothing of labor history, absolutely nothing of Marx nor even Gompers or Jimmy Hoffa (besides perhaps, where he is buried)...  meanwhile Young Tweed, in his 'real life', has earned a Bachelor of Science Degree at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations -- the finest such programme in the World. at the very least, he has not found it necessary to speak on any of these defining matters while accumulating posts by the thousands here at uselectionatlas.org. 

to connect this point to the game, return to Miamiu1027 285:27 in its entirety: "There is no constructive point.  but it's fun." Napoleon simply lacks the degree of consciousness necessary to even comprehend the possibility of something being for fun, rather than for business, for profit, or, if he is religiously oriented -- some Higher purpose.  this is no particular fault of his own.  he's been pounded with advertisements since he was a small child, and bourgeois ideology has this habit of seeping into everyone's brains.  he views the Republic as a machine necessary to accomplish things -- for the creation of surplus-value, if we are to the logical end - and not a place for recreation.  as such, the certification of Napoleon as victor of the 06/12 election is in clear violation of the quote taken from Miamiu1027 285:27, the John 3:16 of Atlasia, which is inseparable from any reasoned conception of the General Welfare of the Republic.

but it's fun