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There is a real possibility that the primary victim of the ongoing crisis will not be capitalism but the left itself, insofar as its inability to offer a viable global alternative was again made visible to everyone. It was the left that was effectively caught out, as if recent events were staged with a calculated risk in order to demonstrate that, even at a time of shattering crisis, there is no viable alternative to capitalism. Immanuel Kant countered the conservative motto “Don’t think, obey!” not with the injunction “Don’t obey, think!” but rather “Obey, but think!” When we are transfixed by something like the bailout, we should bear in mind that since it is actually a form of blackmail, we must resist the populist temptation to act out our anger and thus wound ourselves. Instead of such impotent acting-out, we should control our fury and transform it into an icy determination to think—to think things through in a really radical way, and to ask what kind of a society renders such blackmail possible.
Slavoj Zizek, “To Each According to His Greed”, Harper’s, Oct. 2009.
God, I keep forgetting how good the writing was in the first season.
- Lester: Tell me something, Jimmy. How exactly do you think it all ends?
- McNulty: What do you mean?
- Lester: A parade? A gold watch? A shining Jimmy-McNulty-day moment, when you bring in a case sooooo sweet everybody gets together and says, "Aw, shit! He was right all along. Should've listened to the man." The job will not save you, Jimmy. It won't make you whole, it won't fill your ass up.
- McNulty: I dunno, a good case—
- Lester: Ends. They all end. The handcuffs go click and it's over. The next morning, it's just you in your room with yourself.
- McNulty: Until the next case.
- Lester: Boooooy, you need something else outside of this here.
- McNulty: Like what, dollhouse miniatures?
- Lester: Hey, hey, hey, a life. A life, Jimmy. You know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.
Although I, myself, did grow up in a Filipino household, I didn’t necessarily spend much of my youth in my mother’s kitchen. In fact, if a children’s book were illustrated and based on my own childhood, 99% of the pictures would involve me sitting in front of a TV, me and my brothers punching each other in the face, and me sitting in front of a TV. (via Burnt Lumpia: Cora Cooks Pancit)
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” -Walker Evans
