Reluctant conclusion
Economic concerns clog the aether at present. The very air is thick with the dirty, pecuniary interests of the bourgeois and the men who would be bourgeois.
Market crashes, labor dismissals, trade and currency adjustments — I cough, I choke, I escape, diving wholeheartedly and headlong into bottles of les alcools des jours.
What lesson can be learned from all this? Even the ugliest, most base realities have lessons to teach. (So says my Manchurian friend anyway.) Perhaps nothing more than my pet, perennial suspicion that most human intercourse, brutality, and motivation can be traced to economic affections and income origins.
Cherchez le dollar, as it were.
I find I’m just Marxist enough to recognize this fact and just Romantic enough to have a problem with it.
March 22, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I understand your sentiment, you consider economic activity to be vulgar and offensive. It is possible you also detest it, because business executives don’t appreciate poetry or good taste.
I believe you are missing something, as Economics can be beautiful too, I recommend you read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, or visit the Mises Institute web site.
March 22, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Here is the link: http://mises.org/