Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Reification of the Day
Even as “the market” implodes and again refutes its own totalitarian worshippers’ dogmas, our “mainstream” (read “overclass”-serving) leaders continue to talk about “it” in terms that would embarrass any self-respecting third-grader.
What am I talking about? Treating “the market” as an actual, real thing, rather than a euphemistic abstraction for aggregate capitalist endeavors.
Check out this headline from yesterday’s New York Times:
Trying to Break Cycle, Markets Rise
It’s remarkable to watch how utterly imprisoned by its own ideologies our super-decrepit overclass is. The rotten, impotent twaddle pours forth, even as the Wile E. Coyote feet keep scrambling on canyon air. Don’t ever look down, o brave entreperneurs!
They don’t know themselves vewwy well, do they?
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