You cannot make it up

Paulie is exhorting people to read this post, claiming that "this post pulls together so many themes that I've been niggling around for so long. I'd never have got there though." This has to be sarcastic, but certainly try reading if you want a laugh. Haft of it reads like it was produced by the postmodernism generator and the other haft is even worse, with such unintentionally hillarious statements as this:

The symptoms of the failures of this worldview are everywhere – in a disintegrated social sphere in which teenagers shooting each other has become commonplace, in which mental illness and affective disorders of every kind are proliferating at an alarming degree, in which hospitals incubate aggessive Superbugs - what is required is connect effect to structural cause. Far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital.

Really. So it was private capital that made the state owned, state financed, and state run hospitals providing socialised health care into plague pits. Compared to the very clean private hospitals where the patients can actually influence the conditions that they want to be treated in by refusing to be kept in squalid filth. Were a private hospital to try and force NHS like conditions on upon its patients it would go out of business.

Or even better this:

Microsoft has achieved its global domination not so much by occupying the State as by subordinating the machinery of government to its interests.

What the fuck? At what point exactly did the state have anything to do with Microsoft's current domination of the operating system market? Microsoft gained its leaverage through the stupidity of IBM in not forcing them to give an exclusive licence for MS DOS (nee QDOS, Quick and Dirty Operating System) and the cleverness of the engineers at Compaq for seeing an opportunity to piggyback IBMs marketing muscle. Microsoft has spent most of its existence dodging the machinery of government; be it copywrite, patents, or anti-trust.

Or how about this for chutzpa:

The Left should argue that it can deliver what neoliberalism has signally failed to do: a massive reduction of bureaucracy, a handing back of control of work and life from rhizomaniac bureaucracies to workers.

Ha ha ha hha ha hahahahah ha ha. To be able to deliver lines like that with a strait face!