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August 15, 2007 |

I ran across Going Private at Tech Central Station.

The sheer intelligence of the blogger illuminates the page. It is not easy stuff. Instead it is about as good as an engaged intellectual can get. This rift on an essay on Being There gives a flavour.

This, in itself, would not be so concerning if not for the parallel tendencies, recent in my view, to penalize those who can perceive the complex and therefore profit by it. Hamilton supposes that, “perhaps, a complex, three-dimensional personality, full of contradictions, corners, and real history is difficult to reduce to a flat surface.” If this is so, and unlike Hamilton, I am far less worried about the impact on various political leaders whose power is, to my way of thinking, threatened by irrelevancy, but rather on the figureheads of capitalist endeavors. To the extent these actors are successful in the market and attract resources with which to augment their influence in the pricing of assets, the banality of flat surfaces (oil company greed and conspiracy being responsible for price fluctuations in gasoline for instance) might be repelled. But what if these same actors who bring rationality into the equation are routinely vilified and attacked by a society that casts confused and envious eyes in their three dimensional direction? going private

All that and the “Debt Bitch” for flavour.


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