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: It seems he once said :


Le totalitarisme des marchés financiers ne me réjouit pas. Mais je sais qu'il existe et je voudrais que toutes les élites le sachent. Je ne sais pas si les marchés pensent juste mais je sais qu'on ne peut pas penser contre les marchés. Je suis comme un paysan qui n'aime pas la grêle mais qui vit avec. Les 100 000 analphabètes qui font les marchés, si vous ne respectez pas un certain nombre de canons aussi rigoureux que les canons de l'Eglise, peuvent mettre en l'air l'économie d'un pays. Les experts sont au moins les propagandistes de cette réalité.I don't enjoy the totalitarianism of markets. But I know it exists and a want the elites to know it. I don't if the markets think properly. I'm like a peasant who doesn't like hail but lives with it. If you don't respect a certain amount of dogmas as rigourous as those of the Catholic Church, the 100000 illiterate people who rule the markets can destroy a country's economy. At least, experts are propagandists of that reality.  

It seems Minc's goal is to make Le Monde the propaganda arm of the market, convincing everybody that we must adapt or die...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:14:00 AM EST
Le totalitarisme des marchés financiers ne me réjouit pas. ... Je ne sais pas si les marchés pensent juste mais je sais qu'on ne peut pas penser contre les marchés.
I don't enjoy the totalitarianism of markets. ... I don't know whether markets think properly, but I know that one cannot think against them.

Double-think, here we go.

Where is the Galileo that will dare not to respect the dogmas of this Church?

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:18:14 AM EST
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Sorry for the mistranslation, and thanks for correcting.

I'd say one of the things we must remember, as left wing people, is that (a part of) the elite doesn't believe its own bullshit, and we must convince people of that.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:22:56 AM EST
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I find his expression fairly confused. He's a pundit who writes a bad book a year. He's a friend of Bernard-Henri Lévy.

But, yes, basically, he's saying: without me to tell you what to do, lightning will strike.

High priest takes big money to stave off disaster.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:26:50 AM EST
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It's not by chance I coined them the Congregation for the Propagation of the Economic Faith a.k.a. The Holy Economics Office

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
by Melanchthon on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 05:40:53 PM EST
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