Richard Seddon wrote:
>
> Oh for God's sake get a grip on it.

Huh! Dirk seems to have a pretty good grip on the operations of power in
the U.S.

Actually, the _Cantos_ are more not less impressive as an illumination
of history if one escapes from Pound's own economic and political
illusions, particularly the illusion that "money" has a reality of its
own independently of human productive activity. His quite unacceptable
exuce for history _is_ much more than an excuse for "ego, scriptor
cantilenae" (I can't locate the exact line now, and I don't think my
memory of it is quite correct, but it's close:

        Adolf, blind from perception, but there are those whose blindness comes
from inside.

Perhaps someone can locate the 'original' of this. Pound was indeed
blind from perception. There is an immense generosity that weaves
through the Cantos - "The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant's
bent shoulders."

Carrol

> >
> > Won't it be great when the U.S. military is completely privatized?  Then
> > they won't even have to have a fake president lie to Congress in order
> > to accomplish their global economic aims; they can just go do it.
> > Strong-man economics. Completely free avarice. I.e., anarcho-capitalism:
> > capitalism without law.
> >
> > Dirk
> >