After Such Knowledge

I've looked at the historical record and seen that every nation that successfully industrialized did it behind tariff walls. This includes South Korea and Mexico. My second take is that because the financial markets are hopelessly corrupt, shortsighted, and technologically illiterate, they are unable to properly value the infrastructure of industrialization. When financialization first started, there were a few protests at the ability of real scoundrels to seize and then cash in on assets they rarely understood, who in the process of their plunder, squandered a system of wealth creation that had taken decades to create. They pissed away USA's industrial crown jewels for a tiny fraction of what they were worth with their get-rich-quick schemes. These protests probably crested with Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street — an effort so excellent, I suspect Stone didn't even know how good it was. Along with the plunder came the justifications for why this did not matter. Around h...

Alas, their paradigms and terms of discourse are dieux-dieux. It's why I trashed that Blakely gal from offa here. All have to go. It's a clearance sale, a liquidation! Not that it hasn't been like Black Friday every goddam day since the Reago-Thatcher Pod-People Takeover. Even in those ritzy stores in the brick-and-mortar malls. Nonetheless the urge to refute and rebuke and revile my rivals at the next ISCSC conference remains strong and renitent, so here goes... Leaving our civ's intellectual plane, where this Maslovian need is being poorly served, let's turn to the economic level. I am not insisting on using the combined expression "political economy" today. We oughta, but Western history did not begin with centralized public authority. The abortive Carolingian kingdom does not count and should never have been. Here we are faced with a series of complex developments. Wouldn't it be nice if we could ignore 'em, but we can't because economic is...