Rational ’round the rosey….Saunter ’round the glen..
Who believes in rational policy? And upon whet rational rests your firm beliefs? Are you the master logician able to leap tall buildings in a single bound with the strengths of your abilities to match premise upon premise with masterful conclusion after masterful conclusion?
Perhaps, as a modern day Sherlock Holmes, you are the master detective striving and gritting and smoking out the true holy premise upon which to base your true holy thought.
No matter. In the end logic eludes and we circle and circle and drive dizziness to new heights. We delve into the minds of the masters of pious previous thought and the masters of previous pious power. They say always…be scared boy…be very scared. Be frozen girl…be very frozen. Accepted truths don’t have to be accepted truths. They just need to be convenient.
From The New Yorker
The Tyrant Tax by James Surowieck
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/03/07/110307ta_talk_surowiecki
From Harpers
By Slavoj Zizek
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/04/0083351
January 16, 2012 at 9:52 pm
Your post really made me think! Do you have any further reading you would recommend?
January 14, 2012 at 11:38 am
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