I should clarify: the "wishful thinking" I have in mind is about the
rebel being welcomed back into the fold rather than about the imagined
course of the economy.
On 3/2/08, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm thinking it's something deeper than mere wishful thinking,
> although it certainly incorporates wishful thinking into that depth. I
> suspect it's more like a rhetorical 'concession to the consensus' that
> seeks to qualify his short-term deviance with a conciliatory
> longer-term view of convergence -- even though that convergence may be
> based on wishful thinking rather than on data. Perhaps all 'bourgeois
> stupidity' is based on just such a reflex.
>
>
>
> On 3/2/08, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Happily, Mr. Biderman does not expect the recession to last much
> > > > longer than the end of 2008. "I see this thing lasting longer than
> the
> > > > bulls think but not as deep as the bears expect," he said. "People
> > > > will start feeling better late this year."
> >
> >
> > Sandwichman wrote:
> > > And ("happily") his long term prognosis is based on... ?
> >
> >
> > wishful thinking, methinks.
> >
> >
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> > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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