Mr. Sartesian writes: >> I am very careful before calling someone a hack. Somebody who makes purely >> ethereal distinctions in order to obscure the ugly reality in order to >> justify the continuation of that reality is a hack. >> >> Obviously nothing. This is not about simple common sense, as if there exists >> such a thing, price theories, or the democracy of free markets. It's about >> class. What makes a hack is someone denying, obscuring his or her class >> service, by proclaiming "rationality," "utility," "objectivity." Would it >> shock you if I said J. S. Mill was a hack, and a big one? Friedman is a >> hack, and never hackier than when he criticized the IMF for its role in the >> Asian and post-Asian financial collapse of 97-98.
Now I understand. Anybody who disagrees with your view of the world is a hack. Mill, Friedman, Sowell and Shemano -- all hacks. I can live with that. David Shemano
