Tag Archives: Michael Lewis The Big Short

play it again zorba: the crocodile cure

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dave

Its a bit ambivalent. Michael Lewis applying the screws to the Greek population. Fatuous moral righteousness with the cruel guile that only Ugly American can muster.A targeted assassination of an un-people. Not that descriptively the proof is in the pudding. … Continue reading →

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voltaire banking on the philosopher kings: wall street shuffle

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Dave

“He taught us to be free.” Although he was an absolutist, not especially reasonable, and anything but a revolutionary, Voltaire fought absolutism, embodies the Age of Reason, and made the Revolution inevitable. He died at the dawn of the industrial … Continue reading →

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DIONYSIAN: WINE,FRENZY & the TORTURED AESTHETIC

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dave

In more recent years, even those who admire Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” , realize the book challenges traditional values.For example, observers compare the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. In the same manner the wily economic behavior of modern Greeks … Continue reading →

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NO ACCOUNT TO SETTLE IN THE AFTERLIFE: Dionysus Banking System

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dave

“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but … Continue reading →