Sunday, February 2, 2014

another failure of American society

I cannot keep up with all the autistic economists who keep saying, in one form or other, allowing for differences in personal style, that "the good times are over."  No more health care, no more pensions, no more public education.  Back to the nineteenth (or thirteenth) century!  Wage slavery triumphant. 


My goodness.  I never thought the "good times" were so good.  Have these guys never heard of alienation?


In any case, it's much like a doctor pronouncing that the patient has a fatal disease.  but, hey
with my comfortable post as an economist, I'm not suffering.


Do I shoot the messenger who bears bad news? No, I don't think it's so simple.  There's a lot of pretension in having a profession which is, errr, not fully scientific.  And the idea that we can be "objective" or "value-free" is really confusing these guys (and they are guys)... It is really nothing more than an excuse for not thinking things through fully, or censoring yourself in public.  Either way it's disgusting.


But that's not what I wanted to say.


My parents live in a sort of ghetto.  It's not that they live only with other elderly people.  But they are, in their suburban home, isolated.  And this is not right.


Is there no other possible way to live? Surely there must be.  Something is deeply wrong with a society that's so good at (errr used to be!)  so good at providing STUFF, but leaves out
the connections between people.


Not human. Not good.  Not justifiable. But if we look for reasons, the ugly beast of capitalism will raise its head.... and ....yccch, boy is it ugly!

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