Nice link, Mike. It's like some hyper version of market mentality and
Kafka, all fiddling while the Earth burns (to mix several metaphors at once).
I don't, by the way, think any of this is inevitable, just quite
possible. The main point was that even if this regime is declining (and
all regimes eventually do), it is possible to find meaningful work and
relationships at some level of granularity.
L*
>Unless I miss my guess, Matvey, Leigh's concerns with an
>ecological disaster as the future sort of follows from yours
>as middel-class=consumption when intellectual labor pays
>for the consumption.
>
>It sort of makes clear the schooling-IQ-income nexus. Like
>the American comic, Richard Pryor liked to ask, "which way
>is up?".
>
>A way that leads to ecological disaster is not, in my opinion
>"up." It takes great thinking and a lot of luck to be able to
>both make money and provide alternative future we would want
>our grandchildren to live with, and theirs, a least.
>
>Good thing "the future" is an illusion, and open. Too bad
>only time will tell.
>
>mike
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