Eva Durant wrote,
I thought it was meant to be funny, to link any
of these [emancipation, repression, sublimation] with the Dow Jones index...
Funny in the sense of odd, yes. But also not at all funny in the sense that
an index of immiseration is daily presented to us as proof of prosperity. I
Tom Walker wrote:
I
guess I'm becoming frustrated with the complacency of "waiting for the
bubble to burst". The reason the bubble won't burst is that if the stock
market falls violently, we will be called upon by governments to make
tremendous sacrifices to pump it back up again.
I'm
The question in the subject line is the title of a 1932 exchange of letters
between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, arranged by the League of
Nations' International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation. Freud's reply
to the question sounds remarkably like one of Jay Hanson's riveting fables
