Economics Was Like Psychology, A Pseudoscience Trying

Atoms Have A Nucleus, Made Of Protons And Neutrons Bound Together. Around This Nucleus Shells Of Electrons Spin, And Each Shell Is Either Full Or Trying To Get Full, To Balance With The Number Of Protons-to Balance The Number Of Positive And Negative Charges. An Atom Is Like A Human Heart, You See.

Fights Over Ideas Are The Most Vicious Of All. If It Were Merely Food, Or Water, Or Shelter, We Would Work Something Out. But In The Realm Of Ideas One Can Become Idealistic .

We All Have Secret Lives. The Life Of Excretion; The World Of Inappropriate Sexual Fantasies; Our Real Hopes, Our Terror Of Death; Our Experience Of Shame; The World Of Pain; And Our Dreams. No One Else Knows These Lives. Consciousness Is Solitary. Each Person Lives In That Bubble Universe That Rests Under The Skull, Alone.

Beauty Was The Promise Of Happiness, Not Happiness Itself; And The Anticipated World Was Often More Rich Than Anything Real.

Anyway That's A Large Part Of What Economics Is - People Arbitrarily, Or As A Matter Of Taste, Assigning Numerical Values To Non-numerical Things. And Then Pretending That They Haven't Just Made The Numbers Up, Which They Have. Economics Is Like Astrology In That Sense, Except That Economics Serves To Justify The Current Power Structure, And So It Has A Lot Of Fervent Believers Among The Powerful