[lit-ideas] Dear Eric, I hope your eyes are well
- From: "Adriano Palma" <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:38:50 +0200
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Dear Eric, I hope your eyes are well
on the subject of the text, there is no worse dialogue than those with
people who do not listen.
best wishes
>>> "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> 11/19/2011 10:35 AM >>>
>>That is not btw why there's an 'A' and a 'B' - they are there simply
so they can they be deployed as shorthand signs for the propositions
they are stated to denote, propositions that do not differ "from speaker
to speaker" but remain constant or invariant in their content.
Donal, it’s structured as dialog, a phone call maybe. A calls his
friend B to describe the local weather and B offers another local
description.
Yet even granting your meaning of “A” and “B” as constant and
invariant, why on earth (That’s where we seem to be.) would you deploy
the weather as an example?
Objections:
1. Two statements cannot be made at the same point in space and
time.
2. Assuming a single speaker operating in a longer period of space
time -- in my example a Yankee farmer describing snow drifts to a
Southern visitor -- Yankee farmer points to a patch of field and
remarks, “Here there is snow.” (A) Calmly, the Yankee farmer turns to
indicate an area beneath an enclosed patio, and says, “Here there is no
snow.” (B) His Southern guest replies, “So that’s snow. Glad I don’t
have to live with it.”
>>Next on the "Eric & Adriano Show": a dazzling demonstration that
there is no contradiction between the view that A. the banks bear a
large measure of the blame for our current fiscal woes…
In 1999, Bill “Nobody Left To Lie To” Clinton repealed the
Glass-Steagall Act, an FDR-era protection against bank bloat. He was
lobbied by a banker who became Citigroup CEO after the repeal. Shortly
after the repeal Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Reich went to work for
CitiGroup. This corrupt bipartisan legislation allowed the “too big to
fail” institutions, without which there would have been no gigantic US
bank-bailout. Therefore, legislation may be seen as the prime mover of
our woes. (Both McCain and Obama have tried to bring back some form of
the Glass-Steagall Act.) So much for our woes. European woes are a
different dirge, but I suspect legislation may be more causal than banks
per se. There, that is, rather than here.
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