March 6 - March 12

Well hello there,

At first I thought your website was banned (don’t know why but the school tends to do that kind of stuff); turns out, you were just having “a break” (jsut to give it a name). Glad to see you’re back on track, although one of the points on your plan caught my attention the most:

go every morning, 7AM-1PM, to Starbucks
you love Starbucks eh? I would’ve thought you weren’t the kind of guy who loves Starbucks (what kind of people do that? oh I haven’t deepened my theories yet, it’s not pejorative though); maybe a little more mom-and-pop coffee shop?

Just a thought

Hey Erasmo!

Some years ago I also would’ve never thought of Eliazar as a Starbucks guy. But you see, he is now a corporate-loving, free market-embracing, caramel macchiato drinking yuppie. Damn you Virginia Postrel!! Or perhaps he just really loves the coffee….....=)

Por cierto, están interesantes los elements of style pero intercalar foreign languages me parece uber cool…

Saludos!

I beg to differ Yo, but I’ve always been a free-marketeer. It was Postrel who finally stirred me to action, but I’ve always been lucky to have a penchant for descentralized, collective-intelligence, emergent systems—like the market (this shall be the subject of another post); and a consequent dislike for centralized, wishful-thinking, coercive ones—like communism. I found Marx and Engel’s communist manifesto intriguing, but that’s about it. Don’t you remember how I used to argue about communism with Lalo and Sergio? Defending Blockbuster and other franchises? Oponiendome a su (en mi opinion) paternalismo indigena?

I do like and admire Starbucks, but of course I don’t have anything against a mom-and-pop coffee shop. I do like caramel macchiatos (and crème frappuchinos), I embrace the free market, and though I wouldn’t really say that I love corporations, I do like them; as for yuppie… well, I guess I am, just as you are, a young, urban (or upwardly-mobile) professional (though technically I’m not a professional), but I’d much rather wear the dynamist badge or even the bobo one.

Bueno pero dejandonos de eso. Que chingaos no me pueden simplemente desear buena suerte en vez de estarse maravillando de mi buen gusto economico!? ;)

Ah y no exageres Erasmo, no llevaba tanto sin escribir!

Saludos a los dos!

Well then, las things first:

A coupe of days without a new post seemed awfully unusual, specially with your self-proclamied “verborrea” (I just hate that word, sounds so offensive, when it just means “prolific writing of some sort”.. heh)

It’s hard not to love a caramel macchiato, at the same time, it’s hard to overlook the “elephant in the room” that corporations represent (and here comes the political statement): Most corporations (which give us those cozy little gadgets and whatnot that we all love in exchange of a moderate price (accordingly), i’ll give you that) would sell your liver if there was a market for that.

Don’t get me wrong here, there are retailers (you know who you are, big name) that are into the conscious empoverishment of their own employees, piling up their revenues in the short-term while furthering the socioeconomic cleavage that darwinist capitalism promotes… In the paraphrased words of Tyler Durden: it’s a time bomb man, and it’s all going down!

Heh, cya later, good luck on the proyects, i’ll be in the trench ;)

Saludos, nos vemos luego, pronto espero

Ok, quick question here: Te gusta el libre mercado, la descentralización, el dinamismo económico que me suena más a neoliberalismo económico, y supongo que por eso apoyas al PAN, pero que dices de sus políticas en contra de la libertad de acción, centralización del pensamiento, y sus repetidas acciones contra el dinamismo de la sociedad??

OK, lo admito, a mi también me gusta el starbucks..jejeje
Saludos!

Erasmo:

I’m nowhere as glum as you are.

Yep, let’s see each other soon!

Yo:

el dinamismo económico que me suena más a neoliberalismo económico

Claro que hay interseccion pero el dinamismo es mas amplio, no solo es economico. Como vas con el libro?

y supongo que por eso apoyas al PAN

Soy apartidista.

pero que dices de sus políticas en contra de la libertad de acción, centralización del pensamiento, y sus repetidas acciones contra el dinamismo de la sociedad??

Son repugnantes.

OK, lo admito, a mi también me gusta el starbucks..jejeje Saludos!

Te invito pues. :) Voy a estar en el de la Minerva de 8AM-2PM toda esta semana. Ve un dia!

mmm… me tiene intrigada… who the hell is YO? and… does he/she knows you eliazar?
din dun…
saluditos

Evey Hammond: Who are you?

V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what. And what I am is a man in a mask.

Evey Hammond: I can see that.

V: Of course you can. I am not questioning your powers of observation. I’m merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.

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Yup, we know each other. :)

Are you like a crazy person?

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Really brother, how many times have you seen it? Jeez!

Thrice, my dear.

A review, the likes of which this mean and wretched world has never even glimpsed at, is in the offing.

Well, I guess that answers my first question … positively