tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post5878463355187427856..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Muzzling DissentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-51888278480056171422015-04-24T12:31:38.752-04:002015-04-24T12:31:38.752-04:00The upshot of this is clearly a point I have made ...The upshot of this is clearly a point I have made elsewhere: Paul Krugman and Brad Delong are two of the most dangerous people alive. If liberal elites refuse to understand that their rabid defense of orthodox economics is literally causing death, who is ever going to be in the position to point out that the emperor has no clothes?<br /><br />There is some hope in the fragmentation of the press and the accompanying rise of diverse view points caused by the Internet. The police have been executing unarmed Black men at a steady rate since the 70s. That it's now a story is big progress. <br /><br />But the coming election is bound to be disheartening. All that can be truthfully said about the Clintons and the Bushes has been said. That means that the election may very well be decided by a "narrative" that to be new will be, by necessity, total fiction. A fiction even more dubious than the notion that Al Gore was the liar in the 2000 election Thornton Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402495641975262697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-78103172574019718592015-04-22T14:43:06.630-04:002015-04-22T14:43:06.630-04:00Economics is the prime example of The Big Lie in t...Economics is the prime example of The Big Lie in the Era of Inverted Totalitarianism. All criticism is defeated by the sheer audacious scale of the thing.Bruce Wilderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09631065564839959376noreply@blogger.com