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Re: Self-censorship (4.00 / 2)
Frank Schnittger:
the present economic consensus has reached a height of stupidity

That's it. And that height of stupidity is presented as there-is-no-alternative TINA. Mig's article says there-are-real-alternatives TARA. In present circumstances, that is fairly revolutionary.

Frank Schnittger:

We need a new real world approach to economics - one starting with assumptions about human rights rather than human "rationality" or greed, and one rooted in the ecosystem of the world we actually inhabit.

Certainly we do. I'd have thought these had been preoccupations of most discourse on ET since it began. But communicating through different channels in a way that's appropriate to them isn't a form of denial of that, it's taking an opportunity to challenge conventional wisdom and move ideas forward. Or must we write a Manifesto and only communicate that?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 20th, 2011 at 11:54:25 AM EST
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Re: Self-censorship (4.00 / 3)
afew:
Or must we write a Manifesto and only communicate that?

er, yes actually!

both/and... one prong with graphs for the economic wonks (heavily ref'd with nuggets of veblen, george, et al and one for the innumerate proles, preferably with cartoons to help explain.

the ignorance prevails because the Lie is unthinkably Big. while this essay lassoos the intellectual contingent, the manifesto must break down the wall between the perps and the rest of us doofuses, so we-of-little-brains may become privy to the arcane voodoo secrets that end up in poverty and war for the huddled masses outside the selected circles.

well done migeru! great synthesis.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jul 20th, 2011 at 05:22:01 PM EST
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