Charlie Rose

REMant  08/11/2009 01:50 PM Report

Well, I can't argue with this, obviously, but in all honesty all the books on this subject that have come out in the past few months, on top of the books about the nefarious motives of the Bush admin, etc, make me wish most of the authors had considered becoming bakers, brewers, potters, or whatever, themselves. On the subject of cycles, I think we have a very long cycle between Reformation values and sceptical or relative ones, or if you wish inner-directedness and other-directedness, but within that we have a shorter periodicity of the same and a permanent presence of both types. Somewhat like weekly and yearly weather changes within climate changes. Heckscher found similar differences in economic philosophy tho I don't think he really understood them. But, I see the last 50 years as fairly continuous, the preceeding three decades of depression and war as somewhat different tho fairly contiguous with the period before WWI. The notion of a credit and consumer-driven, supermarket-style economy took a long while to get off the ground, while WWI seems to have spelled the end of the era of the belief in design.