All The Lessons Of Psychiatry, Psychology, Social

After A Period In Which Technocrats Attempted To Become Stars And Stars To Become Politicians, The Political Void Has Been Occupied By The Force Of Mediocrity, Which Can Easily Master Enough Of The Star Techniques To Produce Inoffensive Personalities And Enough Of The Rational Vocabulary To Create The Sounds Of Competence.

Money Is Not Real. It Is A Conscious Agreement On Measuring Value.

If Individuals Do Not Occupy Their Legitimate Position, Then It Will Be Occupied By A God Or A King Or A Coalition Of Interest Groups. If Citizens Do Not Exercise The Powers Confered By Their Legitimacy, Others Will Do So. (i - The Great Leap Backwards)

Our Belief In Salvation Through The Market Is Very Much In The Utopian Tradition. The Economists And Managers Are The Servants Of God. Like The Medieval Scholastics, Their Only Job Is To Uncover The Divine Plan. They Could Never Create Or Stop It. At Most They Might Aspire To Small Alterations.

Capitalism Was Reasonably Content Under Hitler, Happy Under Mussolini, Very Happy Under Franco And Delirious Under General Pinochet.