That is the meaning of economics. Movement of goods as the greatest good. Nothing else matters except buying things. That is economics. Value equals use. The greatest use is that which brings the most jobs and the best product. Coca Cola.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 5:19 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why a United Europe can never be Take a walk through a shopping mall. Esp tomorrow. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 4:34 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why a United Europe can never be Why so passive? Where did you learn that? REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 3:02 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why a United Europe can never be "We have met the enemy and he is us." Not economists. Economists just reflect the prevailing ethos. arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 2:02 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why a United Europe can never be That's the religion of the economist. It was not like this when I was growing up. I was not taught these values. We didn't have a whole media dedicated to the only value being the value of profit and "wealth production," that quality belonged only to the rich. I learned of Beethoven and Brahms as a poor reservation kid. Today, the wealthy own the classical arts and fence it in so that people like me will have to serve as entertainers and trinkets and trash minds. Economists brought this is and it is a religion of economics. People don't have any idea what I'm talking about when I speak of a web of relationship between spirituality, aesthetics, negotiation, education, law, science and public health. They think they are professions rather than social domains of civilized human society. No one domain over the other and each, as the Founding Fathers elucidated a check and a balance against and with the other. The government is based on the Golden Triad of Individual, Group and Archive. But economic idolatry has frozen the cooperation necessary in the American Structure and all they can do is scream that they are not European which is another structure based in Parental authority and adolescent rebellion in their minds. I am seeing once again the rise of an ignorant left like the sixties that is matched by the Nixonian right wing. Sales, deals, Black Friday, how very "Scottish" we have become. Stanley Jevons and the all of the schools of economics would be right at home in today's world. The next world will be immigrant Viennese. The wretched refuse of Vienna's teeming shore now being pushed by Fox News and Glen Beck. It's their world. But not mine. I see it in the synagogues in the wars between the boards who think religion is a business and the Artists who know that it is much more than that but they have to pay the piper to get it since Artists give their whole lives to being exceptional. The genius of Judaism isn't that they act like WASPS except more so. It's in Einstein and Mahler and all of the great Jewish Artists, Scientists and health professionals that have lead the world. If you want the exceptional then you have to give them enough to eat, live and not be demeaned for considering that money is not as important as expressive excellence. Today, the Chinese get it and they are flooding the world with exceptional young people. We should remember that once upon a time the WASPS were exceptional then they sold out in the 1880s. In the beginning they dreamed of a Secular Common where all groups would flourish. Kublai had it in the first version of Beijing the most religious tolerant society the world has ever seen but he was a brute and murderer. He worshipped government just as Ayn Rand worshipped the market. Each group rises and succumbs to the same virus and it's energy and excuse is always economics. Hitler had full employment once the Jews were taken out of the work force. Energy is amoral. The German people worshipped the man who gave them full employment. You have to get beyond energy to find the meaning of life. That's genius of the Bimah. Art is equal to Intellectual thought on the Bimah. Years ago Keith wondered why the genius of the Jewish people had happened and paired it with the Asians here who also worship excellence. He was right. It's built into the platform where they come together for their worship. The equality of the Intellectual teacher and the power of human Aesthetic expression in the Cantor. When the Art of the Cantor is changed to community entertainment they have thrown a great treasure away. Something that Esau did and lost his birthright in the story of Esau and Jacob. It's all there in the book. Why do we keep repeating the mistake as if we had lead poison and repetitive motion syndrome? In the religions of the world, such a mistake is called "idolatry." You sell your soul cheaply. Perhaps we should not blame economists for BEING economists. Perhaps we should blame ourselves for not being strong enough to resist and control them. Instead we act like the builders of the seawall around those Japanese reactors and go for cheap. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 8:22 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'; 'Keith Hudson' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why a United Europe can never be Interesting to wish a UK resident Thanksgiving wishes. America is a religion. Its main holiday seems to be Thanksgiving. Now given over entirely to consumerism which seems to underlie much of the ethos of the US. I know there is more, much more but there must be many Americans who are disgusted at the outpouring of sales, deals, Black Friday etc., all overt or covert entreaties to buy, buy, buy. arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 12:56 AM To: 'Keith Hudson'; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why a United Europe can never be Happy Thanksgiving Keith, REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:12 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] Why a United Europe can never be It's ominous indeed for the Eurozone (and the European Union behind it) that German-originated bonds failed to be fully taken up yesterday. Slightly more than a third of a modest auction ($8 billion) of the economically strongest nation in the Eurozone failed to find buyers. On Tuesday, this would have been so unimaginable that a bookie could have offered 100:1 against this happening and, probably, no-one would have taken the bet. This surely is the most significant event yet in the history of this grand Napoleonic reprise (because, initiated by the French, this is what the European Union and the Eurozone was meant to be). It is nothing to do with lack of confidence in Germany per se; it is a realistic assessment by objective investors that even Germany can't keep on sustaining the Eurozone as it has been doing. The attempt at a United Europe was, in truth, a French-led attempt at a new nation-state which, with a consumer base of 400 million, could serve as a powerful economic counterweight to America. This, however, can never be because it would contradict one of the plainest facts of human history. This is that any successful nation-state needs to have a predominant, and widely similar, culture within it. At the very least, it has to impose a common language as soon as possible. It's a sine qua non. As to language, examples abound. Two obvious ones are the United Kingdom where Scottish, Welsh and Irish Gaelic were ruthlessly persecuted, and the United States of America, where many Native Indian languages and French and Spanish were expunged. The apparent anomaly of China, in which 20 or 30 different languages are still spoken, has, nevertheless, been held together for 2,200 years with one written language imposed by Emperor Qin. Hilariously (if it weren't so tragic), the very bureaucratic centre of a putative United Europe, Brussels, lies in a country which has two cultures so different (each with its own language), that it hasn't had a government in over a year, and there's precious little chance of one anytime soon from what one reads. (Curiously, Belgium shares this distinction with Iraq. Now that the Kurds have removed themselves from the country, the Sunni and Shia Muslims are even more at each other's throats than they were before America invaded.) Well, I've written all that I intended to say this morning. However, there's another curiosity which might be added as a postscript. Business-wise, scientifically, artistically -- culturally, if you like -- the world is becoming a vast spider's web of many different specializations where territorial boundaries are gradually becoming increasingly exiguous. And all these lateral networks are increasingly speaking one common language -- the accidental cause being the birthplace of the industrial revolution. Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2011/11/
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