Jim Devine wrote: > > [this piece seems to presage the initial consensus -- and then the > later battles -- within the likely Obama administration. I'd predict > that Rubin's slant would win.] > > The New York Times / November 3, 2008 > > Op-Ed Contributors > No More Economic False Choices > By ROBERT E. RUBIN and JARED BERNSTEIN > > > The next president, the prevailing wisdom goes,
Isn't it wonderful how pundits always set themselves up against some "prevailing wisdom" which they in their presumably "non-prevailing wisdom" are now going to overcome? I noticed this in 19th-c literary critics when I was doing my dissertation 50 years ago. Those who expressed the prevailing wisdom always pretended to be revolutionaries overthrowing such stodgy views. It's a habit of bourgeois intellectuals, this love of pretending to be in some minority possessing higher wisdom. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
