Arthur wrote:
> I ran across this one from 1999. It was posted to FW.
>
> If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.....well I am
> consistent.
Just to be picky, Emerson's words were:
vvvvvvv
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Consistency is not always "foolish."
Admittedly, he went on to say:
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as
well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you
think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks
in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said
to-day. -- 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is
it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was
misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and
Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise
spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
which has the ring in my ear of incipient megalomania, especially as
so many inconsistent people think to themselves, "To be misunderstood
is to be great." :-)
> 2. That we have not solved the distribution problem.
>
> [snip]
>
> 6. That governments will argue about debt this and deficit that
> but when the crunch comes, new money will be found.
What do you imagine as a "crunch", Arthur? The US and other
governments recently found an enormous pile of money (or of something
that passed, on casual inspection, for money) because a crunch had
come for very large financial institutions. No similar pile of money,
not even a couple of boxcars full, has been found for medical
bankrupts, foreclosed homeowners, long-term unemployed, communities
whose main employer has moved to Mexico or recent graduates burdened
with unrepayable debt.
So what crunch might fulfill #6 and also solve #2?
- Mike
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