I agree. See my later posting. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael gurstein Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:21 PM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] State-Wrecked: Corruption of Capitalism in America
And there was that movie with Mel Gibson where he plays a paranoic pamphlateer (who actually had something to be paranoid about... M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: State-Wrecked: Corruption of Capitalism in America Arthur wrote: > Many years ago when I was in NY I did some consulting work with the > Hudson Institute and Herman Kahn. He was strange but smart. One of > his one liners was: When he came to a new situation he found out who > the local paranoid was. He would ask that person: Is there anything > going on to worry about. If the answer was yes, he checked it out. > If the answer was no, then he would begin to do some policy work. I'll have to remember that. The "paranoid" may just be a person who's better at detecting patterns in the chaos of the world around him. [1] If he detects and mentions a threatening pattern then he might easily be branded a paranoid if he can't articulate the threat clearly or precisely. > In this context it is worth listening to Stockman. I'm inclined to agree, albeit with reservations about Free Market eschatology to which, AFAICS, he remains devoted. - Mike [1] See John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_: Rather nebbishy protagonist: My Special aptitude is____what, sir? Colonel, at Military Intelligence induction site: Pattiducking! Pattern generation by deductive and inductive reasoning. -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
