The prophetic genius of BLEEDING EDGE

[David Morris]

Dramatic prophesies, however sharp, require strategies for survival, not "I
told you so's" afterwards, to be useful.  Be useful.

And strategies also require personal commitment to action to be credible.

David Morris

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 10:25 AM gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I remember revisiting this conversation sometime in March back when we
> discussing Ernie's soliloquy, and Thomas sent me a link to discussions past
> about this subject. This late capitalist world we inhabit, the digitization
> of our lives, which is a long arc TP has been chronicling, but to furiously
> raid a cliche, but an apt cliche (I Promise...) the bacchanalia of the
> digital world presented in Bleeding Edge is contrasted with brutal reality
> of life on the streets of NYC (Think of Nick Windust's pad) ... Once the
> checks stop clearing, or whomever calls in the tab, the party's over, and
> it's back to the streets or worse... In the cold hard light of dawn the
> fraud becomes clear, the nascent fraud that underpins reality, it hearkens
> back to Lang's Metropolis... at least the social stratification...
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:08 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One aspect.
> >
> > All over the mid-world of intellectual chatter which I surf ( your
> mileage
> > may vary), highlighted by an oft-cited cover story Harper's piece on how
> > late capitalism money has driven all but the rich out of NY CITY,
> >
> > I remember the Plister who said, when we were reading it, Where are the
> > Preterites?
> >
> > I think our group consensus was that P showed they were going, gone, from
> > NYC. (Maxine working for $500 -- if I remember right--was sorta the last,
> > so to suggest. )
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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