Why the name.

I was reading Violence by Slavoj Zizek over an Iced Capp at Tim Horton's this morning and I came across a citation that really sums up my feelings, and I am sure the feelings of a lot of other people today. It is from the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. "Si vous etes pris dans la reve de l'autre, vous etez foutu." If you're trapped in the dream of the other, you're fucked." I feel that would be a great paradigm to write my blog from, because as I find my own health insurance becoming more and more expensive, especially now that I am retired, and listen to the flatulent bursts from politicians, and talking heads, I do feel that I (and I might add all the GM retirees who are watching their dental and vision insurance evaporate) am trapped in someone else's dream. Not only that, we are all definitely beginning to experience the truth of the final phrase of Deleuze's statement.

Yesterday I heard some politico of some sort or other saying that he didn't want his health insurance premiums going for advertising, which would be the outcome of real freemarket competition incidentally. Well, fool that I am of course, I seem to see that millions are going into the pockets of campaign committees, and other sundry efforts to make sure that the great capitalist wet dream of the insurance and pharmaceutical corporate orgs continues unabated. Does the guy I heard yesterday think all that money is picked off a tree in the Garden of Eternal Cash? If he believes that...well I return to the word "foutu".

So I am off and running with this little effort of mine. I see things and I am going to share some of these insights for what they are worth.
Tim