I've been reading about Marx all day... can I please have a friendly conversation?

[Writer]

Anyone? Like, friendly-like?

[DarkTirade]

1. Must... resist... urge... to tell you... to post this in GD...

:P

[Writer]

2. NOOOOOO!

:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Writer...

I'd be honored to have a friendly conversation with you...

Marx, huh?

For school?


I've been struggling to write a new poem and it's coming along very slowly.

Really not ready for prime time!


:hi:

[Writer]

6. Tell me about your poem.

:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. It's about my life...

How I'm looking over it, and the people I've loved...

And about the choices I've made, and what those choices have meant to me, and how they affected me...

And like that!

Don't want to give away too much, now!

;)

[Writer]

12. Yeah, of course.

Writing is so fucking cathartic. If I couldn't write, I'd be insane. I would not be able to function in the world.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Some days I feel that way too...

But mostly, for me, it's just a personal statement about things...

Observations on what I find interesting or beautiful...

[Writer]

15. See that's why I've always thought you were very Zen...

because you seem so connected to the world around you, with your photography and poetry.

I hope one day to achieve that sense of peace.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. I do feel centered most of the time...

But this is an old feeling, one that I've had most of my life...

I hope it will come to you as well...

:hug:

[Writer]

18. Hrmmm... so this is why I decided to do my PhD...

I'm desperately seeking my Aquarian moment when I'm able to let go and feel free... I have all sorts of strange desires there.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Do you want to talk about labor value or exchange value?

That is the question. :D

[Writer]

7. I'm actually more of a Hegelian materialist than a Marxist materialist...

but otherwise, how's Mass?

[bicentennial_baby]

9. MA is supah fine...but,

the workers' labor is being exploited by the managers, and their surplus value is being taken for granted. What's new? :shrug:

You said Hegelian...NERD!! :rofl:

:hi:

[Writer]

10. Yeah, that's what I'm doing... becoming a professional nerd.

I have a friend who's looking into moving to Bah-ston to be with his girl.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Don't you ever stop talking?

You must've been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

[Writer]

8. I don't talk a lot, but I think all the time.

And I hate it. I'd rather relax and enjoy the world.

Maybe a lobotomy is in order?

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. I'm sorry; I didn't mean for you to take that seriously

It's a Groucho Marx line, from "Duck Soup."



:blush:

[Writer]

16. Yeah... I didn't figure that out until after the fact.

My head is fried. You're more likely going to get a straight answer from me than anything that requires interpretation.

[MissMarple]

23. Garden time. Spending time in a garden inspires thought, but more slowly,

much more contempletive, softer. At least it does for me.

[OmahaBlueDog]

19. We could talk about John Rawls, instead

Y'know, "The thin theory of the good", "The veil of ignorance"... all that stuff. He sure seems friendlier than Karl Marx..

...of course, if you were reading Groucho, I can't help you.

[MissMarple]

22. But would that be ""fair" to Groucho?

;)

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

20. Which Marx?

Groucho? Harpo?


Richard? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crKMWXdV7Ps

[MissMarple]

21. Well, my favorite kind of pie is cherry, closely folowed by my daughter's pecan.

It has bourbon in it, lots of pecans, and is really good. Sadly, I must go to bed now and am unable to chat. Good night, sweetheart. :hug:

[leftofthedial]

24. You damned bourgeois lapdogs of the capitalist oppressors

come here and think we owe you "friendly"?!

You think you own the means of production or something?

[Ptah]

25. What a coincidence; I'm listening to Lennon

[Lindsey]

26. I've actually been wanting to read about him too. I don't know anything

about him but have always been curious....sorry I can't give any input.

[ghostsofgiants]

27. What a coincidence, I've been living in a proletarian hell all day.