Tagged: Oscar Wilde
Tweet Anthology
This is an anthology of my tweets from Sep to Dec 2016.
When one of my tweets is actually a reply to another tweet, which content is needed for a good understanding, the preceding tweet is in italics. I name the author when this is relevant, either because the person is known or the source is another media. My tweet then follows below it.
Don’t be surprised, if you count characters, to see that some of the tweets are longer than the 140 characters allowed on Twitter: I have rewritten a few of them in accordance to standard spelling (no abbreviations left). And some others are compounded.
September 2016
Automated jobs aren’t coming back. What’s going to take their place?
A leisure shock… and some won’t survive it.
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Leisure Shrine. From oil rent to robot rent: A new economic strategy for Gulf States to prevent toil shock.
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Most absurd: Corporate bureaucracies on social networks, rigidly unilateral, pretending to be interactive.
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Looks like humanities majors are the college grads taking the “non-college” jobs.
Yet companies are STILL interested in recruiting humanities majors. (They’ve been saying that for the last 50 years.)
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Adidas releases images of the shoes that will be made in its super automated “speedfactory.”
The end of China’s ascent?
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Automating the Gulf: “Robots are no Shiites, alhamdulillah.”
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Hawking: “AI could spell end of human race.” Oscar Wilde: “The only thing one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”
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Heard that, Trump supporters: Donald wants America to look more like Dubai.
The only interesting idea in this campaign trail so far.
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Brexit. Self-fulfilling prophecies & self-filled prophets. Vide Dali, Young virgin auto-sodomized by the horns of her own chastity.
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JASTA. Just Another Stupid Thing from America.
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Chancellor Cantor on @Rutgers_Newark students: “I’m spending my time with the future of this country and this world.”
Escapist!
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JASTA aka jestA, Just Another Silly Thingummy from America.
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JASTA. Brotha, when you take commercial airplanes in your face, you should know it’s no time for jasting.
October 2016
Everyone should do what they can to insure Hillary’s win. Any disagreements are pale compared to the alternative. (Dr David S. Wilson)
What happens to the grades of those of your students who do not dislike Trump, I wonder… Regards.
Stupid innuendo based on no information. Can you stoop any lower?
Based on elementary psychology.
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Trumpbashing. Scholars in election fuss: Students taken hostages.
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Job outsourcing by multinationals. Everybody knows… but nobody knows who.
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John Podesta made a characteristically bourgeois jab at Assange (‘’I bet the lobster risotto is better than the food at the Ecuadorian Embassy.’’)
Derogatory comments on Ecuadorian cuisine are odious hate speech.
After election: How does the risotto taste now, John Podesta?
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Clinton Foundation extorts $1m from Qatar for being a military dwarf.
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It reminds me of the comments before Brexit. They all “knew”… Such experts… Are they friends of yours?
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To all commentators of American elections: Are Brexit commentators friends of yours?
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To the brainwashed: Vote Hillary Clinton.
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Please support the “Preserve Endangered Saudi Way of Life” campaign.
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From Brexit to Election 2016. To those who see Donald Trump as dead man walking: Don’t tell me Brexit commentators are your mentors!
Brexit has proved intelligentsia is moron-entsia. They fail to deliver.
“It won’t pass” was the word until the very morning of June 24. To a man. Do you realize?
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After Brexit the word was “UK’s economy will crash.” To a man. And now: Two banks cancel Brexit recession forecasts (Financial Times).
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To the brainwashed: Vote Hillary Clinton.
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Experts as Failures: From Brexit to Election 2016. [That was before the results and it has turned true, hasn’t it?]
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“My dream is a hemispheric common market.” (Hillary Clinton) Does it include Russia?
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A reminder to the brainwashed: Vote Hillary Clinton.
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Brexit is a shame… upon “analysts” – who saw nothing coming and now keep silent about their resounding failure. Next: Election 2016.
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No To Show Girls.
Saudi Arabia spearheads movement against commercial exploitation of women. Thumb up.
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People who bet are losers to begin with. As a meritocrat you should know that [to Dr Erik Brynjolfson, who regularly gave his followers the odds of Trump winning Election 2016. If I remember well, Trump’s odds never rose above 20 or 25 per cent.] What is the merit of making one’s fortune on a bet, that is, on luck?
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Audience in Charlotte gives Trump a standing ovation when he says if companies like Ford ship out jobs, he’d pick up phone.
The way for Donald Trump to really know about such moves as president is to adopt Senator Gary Peters’s outsourcing accountability bill. [For more on that bill, see here.]
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Hollywood has eyes for Snowden only. Not for Julian Assange. Any idea why?
November 2016
Watch Donna Brazile’s remake of the Bloods vs the Cribs. She’s one of the Cribs.
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Clinton Foundation extorts $28m from Morocco for being a military dwarf.
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Funniest b-movie ever: Dr Clinton and Mrs Riggs.
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Doonald (دونالد) like Doonald from MakDoonaldz (ماكدونالدز).
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Is media buzz on Twitter’s financial situation a concerted operation against Wikileaks, shying people away from leaks exposure?
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I suggest Clinton Foundation may benefit privately from the American military shield to these countries [Qatar, Morocco, &c].
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If these polls are based on interviews, given media Trump-bashing many people must be reluctant to say they will vote for Trump. But they will. [And they did.]
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Californians, we have to stand up and protect our plastic bag ban. Vote Yes on 67! (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nov 7)
Presidential elections are so boring!
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Many say they want to go to Canada. Let them spend one winter there. They will come back, or live on their yachts like sea vagrants.
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Obama’s Kill List
They had a man on their kill list, sent a drone attacking his car, the man was not alone in the car, they all died. The kill list means the man on the list plus any person taking a ride with him (even hitchers). So let us know the people on the kill list, so we can save our lives.
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HRC got 89% of Black vote, 71% of Jewish vote, 63% of Hispanic vote, 55% of Asian vote, 40% of White vote (including Jewish vote).
Don’t forget historic volumes of dead, ineligible, & duplicate votes… Clinton won a 100% of those!
May the dead rest in peace now.
Given 1/20 Jews (and some Arabs) among Whites in U.S., this 40% White vote makes a maximum of 36.5% “Wasp” vote for HRC.
At about 65% for Trump, Wasp vote (although that includes Catholics and others) is clearly becoming communautarist in U.S.
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Last December, Boris Johnson said, “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.” (Richard Dawkins)
Why, he goes to the same places as a billionaire!
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Big Brother Julian is watching you. Don’t mess around with the future for the sake of present vested interests.
Big Brother Julian is watching you. Anything to hide? Don’t even think of it.
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As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner …the press that vilified him whines.
Don’t go out for a steak without throwing bones to journalists.
Donald Trump prefers his steak well down AKA the worst possible way. (The Huffington Post)
And how do you like the bones, journalists?
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Thank you for coming to see us! We hope you enjoyed your visit as much as we enjoyed showing your our new museum galleries, Arnold Schwarzenegger! (Richard Nixon Library)
I always hated that the justice warriors of those days called themselves Deep Throat, boasting their equities in porn.
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Politico Editor RESIGNS After Publishing Home Addresses Of Alt-Right Icon R. Spencer, Advocating For ‘Baseball Bats.’ (Kevin MacDonald)
He’s got baseball bats in the belfry.
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To Richard Dawkins: The reason U.S. is so strong in science is the freedom the people there have to not believe in it.
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As about all other media were sycophants for the other candidate, Wikileaks is part of checks and balances. Make no mistake, what’s “wrong” with Wikileaks is not that it advanced the fortunes of one candidate, but of the wrong one. Wikileaks should acknowledge that it did its best to undermine HRC’s candidacy. And that it worked mighty well.
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Montebourg as minister wanted to induce companies to re-localize in France with subsidies to automatize. Re-localizing is not necessarily about jobs, it can be about productivity.
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Meet Lakshmi, the banking robot from Chennai.
We now know banking can be made by robots. The sooner robots replace bankers the better. My heartfelt thanks to Lakshmi! [Joking, of course: Lakshmi only replies to customers’s queries at your local branch. And yet…]
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Israel’s ‘Helicopter #Drone Gift’ to #Russia makes USA uneasy. Fearing exposing of its technology, USA demands explanation from Israel. (Newscast Pratashya)
Explanation may be the drone was U.S.’s gift to Israel to begin with, so USA might as well demand explanations to themselves.
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We cannot afford to lose the war on poverty.
We’ve afforded it all right for the last couple of million years.
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‘Meme’ is a useless word (see Randy Thornhill). Or it only means: a word as its occurrence is quantified on WWW.
December 2016
I published classic poetry and threw my free-verse poetry & now I am appalled because I may have been successful with the latter.
I wouldn’t have minded success from my free-verse poetry… but I burnt it all… for the sake of what I would call an ideology of classicism.
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I wish the Chinese had taken my job away.
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“Dutch Disease”: When oil/gas abounds, manufacture declines. People just hate working. Robotics is like oil: a ‘Dutch disease.’ & contrary to oil it is here to stay.
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Merkel says ‘only right’ to expect multinationals to pay taxes. (Saudi Gazette)
It’s more common to give them tax breaks so they invest in your country. What can Merkel do about that? Nuffin, poor thing.
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There are 3.5 million cashier jobs in the United States.
And many of these cashiers are discourteous, whereas machines are always polite. There’s an issue with manners & eye-rolling. The solution: Machines.
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Civil servants are human “expert systems.” We don’t need them anymore.
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Retweet if you think Gen. Mattis must keep his bags under the eyes and not have them removed them surgically like so many others. He’s got the bags under the eyes for the job.
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BMW’s current campaign is about “driving pleasure,” but it’s soon over. With the ascent of self-driving cars we won’t let people drive, it’s too dangerous. Self-driving cars will put an end to traffic death toll, on the proviso that men stop driving altogether.
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Yesterday they were saying: “POTUS Obama is the account with most followers on Twitter.” Today they say: “What the heck is that President who thinks like tweeting!”
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How does he have time for a radio show, golf, touring AND doing all these interviews?! Heck, we’re not complaining! (Nights with Alice [”Top-notch classic rock radio show hosted by THE Alice Cooper”])
Golf is decadent. [Through all his career, Alice Cooper was called by some a decadent. Now he is playing golf, that was overlooking the one-man moral lobby that I am, for which it is golf that is decadent.]
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Tourists disappointed as strike closes Eiffel Tower for second day.
French office of tourism has issued an apology: “To all kind foreigners who are visiting us: Pucker up, you can kiss my a**’’
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Mexico uncovers tunnels leading to US. (Bangkok Post)
This is a reminder for Donald Trump to build the wall, all right, but deep enough. And I mean real deep, like you can’t go deeper without being dipped in the melted core of the earth. After that, to detect illegals, check if they’ve got bottoms like baboons’.
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Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions to the debate? (Donald Trump)
Donna Brazile was the cheating crib. At school they told me cribs are bad. I wish I’d never listened to them, I’d be candidate to U.S. elections by now.
XXXVIII
Social Optimum. The person satisfied with his lot ought to be placed in a lower condition, because he might be as satisfied in that lower condition as he currently is, and other people envy his current condition. Because of his case, it is likely that the overall equilibrium is suboptimal. Being unsatisfied, even unhappy, is a good omen; there only needs not go off the rails, because then one becomes useless.
Business Cycles. The cycle implies to do nothing against recession but at the same time, because the population is impacted, to make believe everything is done. This is the function of politicians. In the case of those “in command,” the function can be best described as follows: Dispose of in case of need.
Make-Work. It is not because the economy needs our work that we are working. No, we are working because we wouldn’t know what to make of our free time.
If it is idleness that corrupts (Voltaire), then one should ask whether the brightest child is not as idle in school as the worst dunce.
Reading a newspaper is relying on partial and partisan rhetoric; reading two newspapers is a waste of time.
What used to be called the servile class are now called entrepreneurs. The house cook now runs a restaurant, the footman has opened an electrical and plumbing business, the housemaid is a self-employed cleaning lady. These are the entrepreneurs. As to the economy, it’s the technostructure that handles it.
Nothing great in the world has ever been achieved without passion (Hegel). A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do (Oscar Wilde).
The real problem is not mass unemployment but mass employment.
Mankind owes everything to cynics. What a cynic was the man who invented the wheel, who thought walking was foolish when the others said it was a duty.
Definition. The organization man is an intermediate state between man and the machine.
When the organization man wants to save his soul from complete mechanization, he turns to politics and becomes a politician. He plays at elections, at personal power… This is why the man who remains an organization man all his life hates the politician, who puts something human, however primitive, in his own life. Of course he despises him at the same time because, whereas he, the organization man, has an aura derived from the fact that he represents the corporation (“I represent the corporation”), the politician has an aura derived form the fact that he seeks to represent or actually represents the people, and that for sure has a peculiar smell.
Below good and evil: This is the life of the organization man.
At a Parisian café a cup of coffee is expensive because it is served to you by a grumpy waiter.
The principle of least effort is at the core of the economy because it conditions productivity. However, the organization man has a hierarchical, even a feudal outlook; his objective is to be well seen. Hence a burst of efforts and energy as spectacular as it is worthless.
To sacrifice oneself in order to provide one’s children with a better life than one’s life (meaning to legitimate one’s overwork) is as bright an idea as that of a life after death.
They say moral judgement relates to the act and not to the person. However, women permit to some what they take offense at from others.
Man can take his pleasure with any woman (who does not disgust him). Why would he consult anything but his interest in the choice of a mate?
Taking his pleasure with any woman, man is a pig. Furthermore, all great minds agree to say that work prevents one from cultivating oneself and thinking. Thus modern man, as condemned to work, is a dog. I say he is a rat too, but that is merely a personal opinion.
It is so complicated to be a woman that if a woman told the whole truth, not one man would comprehend her consistency.
Women are superior to men, except in their tastes, because they love men. Whereas men have noble tastes that incline them towards objects of a superior quality.
Politicians are proof that cretins can go far in life, and our societies cannot do without such a message of hope.
Rechtschreibreform. These last years the Germans have invented a few linguistic niceties such as Schifffahrt, Rollladen, Stopppreis, Schwimmmeister, &c, and they are serious about it, they really mean to write like that. Once the philosopher said, “Jeder Wohlgesinnte und Einsichtige ergreife also mit mir Partei für die deutsche Sprache gegen die deutsche Dummheit.” (Schopenhauer) (“I call every good-meaning and reasonable person to take side with me for German language against German stupidity.”) As we can see, it’s now too late! Who cares about Germans and Germany anyway?
Zillions of euros are spent in advertising aimed at associating in the male consumer’s mind this or that low-end product with success in courtship whereas everybody knows that, to succeed with women, one would rather earn more money than what allows to buy these cheap products.
What a person buys under the influence of mass advertising is what prevents him from distinguishing himself, when his goal is to distinguish himself. N.B. I’d say it pays the poor to distinguish himself from the poor surrounding him, in poor women’s eyes, but it impairs the rich to distinguish himself, because then he’s just an eccentric.
We sent people to the moon (so they say) but we can’t even make silent fridges. You just can’t buy a fridge for an open-plan kitchen without making a no man’s land of your living room due to the nuisance!
Mass culture is the engine of automatized consumption.
Oscar Wilde is like me, he can’t believe in the authenticity of ordinary people’s passions: “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” When asked about their life by social scientists, people remember a film they liked and tell the story.
My ancestors must have owned slaves, because I hate to work.
Scholars tell you work is good in order to keep not working.
From Dr Blau, evolutionary psychologist: “Those who make sexual pursuits too conspicuous a goal of their life are considered base. I am not saying these people are base, only that they are considered base, including by myself.”
June 2016
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