by Sean Orr | Local air quality hurt by Interior fires. Um, I’d say so. I woke up yesterday and the North Shore was gone. English Bay looked like Rangoon.
Yeah, so about that Real Estate bubble? The bottom fell out.
Meanwhile, Marijuana may cause Canada’s economic comedown. Duuuude, that’s such a major bummer.
This week in moral relativism: Atomic horror killed thousands but saved millions. Well shit, why don’t we just drop one on Afghanistan? I doubt those guys are going to give up either.
The “you’d be surprised who comes into our stores–doctors, lawyers, business people, professional people” human interest story of the week: Kingsway sex shop rubs residents the wrong way. Also it turns out Beavis and Butthead are writing headlines for the Courier now. ‘He he he he he he he. They said rub. He he he he he he’
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Zizek is always interesting, but by linking to that video, I’m wondering two things:
1 – If charity is more cruel than kind, then shouldn’t Vancouver’s various housing, addiction and social welfare programs be cancelled without hesitation? (Milton Freidman would love it)
2 – Do you actually beleive that western society, constituting as many or more amoral and self-interested actors as it does moral and socially minded actors, is capable of creating a system that offers more social mobility and equality than a capitalist one?
Interesting stuff, always
1. A lot of the DTES relies on charity, but a government providing housing, addiction, and social welfare is not charity. It is the role of the government. That being said, Zizek imagines a world in which it would be impossible for someone to be poor. We can’t conceive of this because it is so built in to our system. But the question remains relevant. Is the DTES simply a moral black hole that we impose our guilt onto by participating in such a wildly unequal society. Is it simply the yang to our yin? Two spectrums of the same line of economic rationale?
2. Yes and no. I suppose there must be a way to make it so the amoral actors are not rewarded by an autistic economy that has externalised everything. If goods reflected their true cost you wouldn’t have to add value to them by making you feel good.