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status system: picking through the wreckage
…With the Keynesian economy operating at full throttle, it can be said that idleness and wealth have been scattered with a generous hand, and everyone is condemned to be a consumer to some degree. The heady atmosphere of abundance has … Continue reading
ready for an american lenin?
Are we ready for an American Lenin? Or a Mao? Or even a Gandhi? Will “make love not war” ever give way to “make revolution not love”; until then the odds are doubtful… Many people assert that a revolutionary situation … Continue reading
the have-nots : not dark yet
Not sure the validity of all the figures here; as Jack Welch pointed out in the government job figures, there is always some jigging and jiving that can be teased out of the data; manipulation of numbers is a combination … Continue reading
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beat the clock
In some measure, what John Lukacs is saying is that a good many people were wrong in their perceptions of what was occurring during World War II. But he is also saying more than that, something more interesting and more … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Szyk, Battle of Britain, Johan Huizinga, John Lukacs, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monica Osborne, Oliver Wallace Music, Oliver Wallace Walt Disney, Otto Dix, Owen Chadwick, Rudolph Herzog, Second World War, Sigmund Freud
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They only came out at night
Revisionist history. Is all history revisionism?From John Lukacs’s The Last European War, almost forty years old, but still valuable… After 1941, “the destiny of Europe depended on two extra-European powers, the United States and the Soviet Union- a condition that … Continue reading
Over the fiscal cliff and into the abyss
it seems like a mocking story in a way; the insecurity of the public sector when they have to get out from under their mother’s skirt and make their way in the real world all by their lonesome, and in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Curry Globe and Mail, David Autour, Francois Legault counselling program, Frank Levy, IBM Watson, Jim Clifton Gallup, John Maynard Keynes, Josef Koudelka, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ray Caesar, Tadeusz Kantor, technological unemployment, Tony Clement Treasury Board, Warren Buffett GEICO
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modernism: press the refresh button
Modernism as a ready made. The break with the past; the discarding of tradition. The shock of the new. Modernism struck at the heart of the conventional wisdom in the arts which meant that an aesthetic of plot, dramatic incident … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, anna freud, Art modernism, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Francis Nauman, francis p. nauman, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Janis Gallery, John Maynard Keynes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, sidney janis, Walter Benjamin
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enlightenment by design: build a better world?
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire
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get rich quick : bubbles in biloxi
He was brilliant. But he was something of a scoundrel. Some of the ideas were there that bore resemblance to John Maynard Keynes. Some of the ideas were there that resembled the classic stock swindle and Ponzi scheme, mortgage backed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Madoff, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Law, John Law Mississippi Bubble, John Maynard Keynes, Lady Catherine Senor, Lord Banbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montesquieu, Niall Ferguson, Philippe d'Orleans, Voltaire, William Hogarth
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