Fee Fie Foe Fum
I smell the blood of an English mum?
Giants are such bad poets. They can't even rhyme.
This one lives in the clouds and can smell nationality. What's THAT all
about?
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I wonder if our non-American friends would be bored by a discussion of New
York City.
For those who follow American politics, the present race between Hillary and
Rudy has been pretty damn interesting. (The wife of the President is running
for the US Senate, which is an historical first, and she's running against
the current Mayor of New York City.)
I wonder what it all says about the Giant?
Rudy's dad thought he ought to be a priest, and that's telling. Rudolf
Giuliani is a former Prosecutor and his reputation as Mayor of the Big Apple
hinges on two things: a crackdown on the sex industry and tough law
enforcement practices. He's a real family values law and order kind of guy.
His critics have always said that he didn't clean up Times Square so much as
sell it to corporate interests, turning the "most Dynamic place on Earth"
into a fake riverboat McDisneyland. His critics accuse him of tolerating
police brutality, and they can point to a number incidents. There was one
case of horrible torture and rape with a plunger and police have shot and
killed several apparently innocent New Yorkers. His fans and supporters
didn't mind that kind of criticism too much and thought he was a righteous
dude inspite of it all. Family values. Law and Order. It sells big.
But now the whole thing has blown up in his face. Have you been following
the news?
He began to unravel when he criticized the Justice Department's raid to get
the Cuban boy out of Miami. He was only going along with other conservatives
in criticizing those INS officals as orwellian thugs, but it was very
strange to hear it coming from a place where the cops have been involved in
one scandal after another. And it was even more bizzare to hear from a guy
who has always been a cop and defended his City cops come hell or high
water.
Then the Mayor announced that he has prostate cancer, for which there was an
outpouring of sympathy and so that tiny hypocracy was quickly forgotten.
Then he announced that he was leaving his wife and that he'd need his
girlfriend now more than ever. His estranged wife (an actress currently
starring in a play called "The Vagina Cronicles".) learned of the divorce by
watching the news and so countered with a press conference of her own
telling the world that Rudy had an earlier affair with a staff member who
has subsequently been given the cushy and lucrative position as the city's
director of tourism, funneling visitors into the newly re-modeled, family
friendly Times Square. (This is more amusing if you know that most American
soap operas are produced in NYC. The plots are famously preposterous, but
the Rudy show out does them all in this respect.)
As one comedian put it, "Hey Rudy! Can we have our lap dancers back now? You
immoral hypocrite!" It was hard to breathe for a while after I heard that
line. Laughed until I cried.
Rudy has not only lost the race and destroyed his own career, he's also
destroyed the ammunition depot where the GOP was keeping all their
anti-Hillary rounds. How can they use Monica against her when Rudy stiffed a
staffer too? My only question is, what is Hillary's third wish? I mean,
she's obviously found bottle with a genie in it. Or is the Giant granting
her wishes?
I'm thinking not just of the city, but also the whole State of New York.
(Votes for US Senate seats are cast statewide. You know that.) Rigel was
from the Kingston area, the town where Phaedrus has his one night stand with
Lila. And the book sort of opens with this idea that he should be able to
explain the MOQ to guys like Rigel. He's like the Victorian, the social
level that ruled the 19th century. And so is Rudy Guliani. Rudy is an
upstate kind of guy. He's very popular in places like Troy, Albany and
Kingston, but ironically, he's not so well loved in NYC. In the Senate
Contest Hillary Clinton will almost certainly win in the city itself. She'll
need a big win there if she expects to offset her losses in Rigel territory.
Vice. It seems to me that the social level's job is to tame and mollify our
biological impulses, and that is how its supposed to be. But the Giant seems
to defy this principle. It seems to be the Dynamic part of social level of
static quality. Its a vortex of mixed social values where anything can and
does happen, like the First Lady, an intellectual and a feminist, being
elected to the Senate, for example. The Rigels of the world only see her as
threatening and sorta dykey, but the distance between Kingston and NYC is
about 100 years. I mean, its not too hard to make the case that their race
is also about the battle between the third and fourth level.
Its appears NYC took the Rigel right out of Rudy, even as Rudy tried to
bring Kingston's values to Manhattan. See what I'm saying? We're talking
about the Giant and there aren't enough words or concepts, so I've got to
dance around and make poetic analogies and such. Wish I could be
mathematically precise, but I can't really even include all the little
details that have relevance and haven't even begun to talk about the Hillary
side of things, but here's the main thing...
The Giant was good to Rudy for a long time, but now he's gone too far. It
seems the Giant is killing Rudy. The beast will NOT be chained. The Mayor's
attempts to return NYC to its former Victorian glory aren't sitting well
with the Giant, and its going to crush him as a result. If I understand this
Giant, there will soon be a Democratic Mayor and Hillary will be
speechifying on the Senate floor by this time next year.
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I'd like to hear some thoughts about the conspiracy theories people use and
how it might help explain the nature and purposes of the Giant. Especially
like to hear from Horse and any other Chomskyites.
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What about the Giants in Europe? Can we compare NYC to Rome, Paris, or
London. How about Jerusalem or Moscow? I've heard that Berlin is the NYC of
Europe. Any truth to that anymore?
Thanks, DMB
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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