Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with capitalism
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The Living and the Dead
Them. And us. Useless people just under the minimum age for useless people clocking in at around a century. If you step just outside of the Hamptons bubble, you will miss the party conversation about how much these people contribute to society. Where is Truman when we need him. Capitalism…
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Tim Barrus: Minority Rule is Usually Ruthless
We are ruled by ruthless masters. They are called the aristocracy. They are unfit to rule anything. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/minority-rule-majoritarian-democracy.html?campaign_id=0&emc=edit_cr_20221021&instance_id=0&nl=comments-notifications®i_id=56243886&segment_id=0&user_id=acf7e0fa0ccfaa274c5a8c73c0976c4a#commentsContainer&permid=121057070:121057070
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I am a communist. I am also a teacher, a writer, a photographer, and the voice of doom. Who knows what education will look like in the future. Robots will take the place of classroom instruction. We can’t find enough teachers. Technology will save us or will it. Parents Night…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
I am a communist. In a world that condemns mostly accurate thumping of male chests, that communism was wrong. It was wrong. It cannot be turned around anymore. It’s for losers. I am a loser. Whose disappointment that anything can change, is the solid ground of If Only. If only…
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Boxers Bobbing About and Weaving
Drug dealers (can you, the drug dealers) please give it a break. But no. I was walking down Duval when two out of town (this is always the way it is in Key West) chicks pulled me into Sloppy Joe’s. Sloppy Joe’s Hoes, things get very dark, and so many…
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Capitalism Is Killing our Children
Tim Barrus, The New York Times Tim Barrus | North Carolina Politicians say we’re lazy. They fervently believe we are out to impoverish them, rob them, grab their wealth and run. There is no Robinhood who is going to save us. No merry men. No Friar Tuck. But there is…
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These End of Days
Farhad Manjoo at the New York Times wants you to be hopeful. Even when I do not agree with Farhad, I always admire his ability to write and make his thought-provoking points. The New York Times is refusing to publish anything from this piece in comments because I have broken…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
In order for greed to thrive, there has to be some kind of a culture, or the approximation of one, for greed to thrive in. To pretend capitalism is the breeding ground of morality, is to pretend that a television personality is Santa Claus who goes from house to house,…