Subjugated to Weber this week, I have taken to bouts of self-pity as he destroys all my hard-won appreciation of the past month’s reading of Marx

There is no justice in the life of a student.It may be the stubborn resistance of the pre-capitalistic roots of my blue-collar upbringing, my limiting Irish Catholic penchant to “sleep well” and for labor.I find myself, not asking how much I can absorb if I read all day, but how much must I read to take care of my traditional educational needs.

Is it fair to say that my calling lies elsewhere, that my post-modern Protean sensibility, with its’ frail connection to the Ideal and code of my ancestral past (100B!), lacks this essential feeling of obligation to reading this book?

Having eroded my inherent rational capitalistic organization of labor, Weber is now undermining my spirit of capitalism, suggesting a consilia evangelica that will forever doom my successes in the economic survival of the fittest.

And I’m only on Note 3 from the introduction- who writes a book with more notes than the book itself.  Is this a Teutonic Pride reaction against Marx; an apocryphal message of “never talk endless shit about Germans”, cause’ we’ll all pay for it?  “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.”   Deuteronomy 24:16

Yet still I read…