[lit-ideas] Re: Ethnic Pride, Black Truck Style

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 23:03:31 +0900

On 8/4/07, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Could be, except I find it impossible to imagine such a person.  The
> vast majority of our lives are constrained by outside authority, and I
> think that is a good thing.  We are born from certain parents, raised
> by particular people, associate with these particular groups of
> people, and hold those kinds of jobs.  We have our particular
> preferences and tastes which guide us in the clothes we wear, the food
> we eat, the books we read, the music we listen to.  In other words, we
> are utterly historical beings.
>


We are, as they say in business, on the same page. The only truly autonomous
individual I know is the fiction who plays the counterfactual role of
rational decision-maker in classical economics.
Cheers,

John




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