People have the odd idea that the scientologists moving into the City of London is lowering the status of the place or something, but in actual fact . . . .
We often misinterpret metaphors as claims of fact - yet our own "orthodoxies" jumps-away-from-logic often go unseen. . . . e.g. "Big Bang" theory? BUT if, "IN SPACE, NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU. . . !" - then, what "bang" exactly?
As for the deregulation of the city of london, its effects upon pensions, the crash, then DotcomBOOMbust. . . . the old testament Adam Smith disapproval of the way people that use other peoples cash screw things up is but a small hint of the weird voodoo "e-con-omics" of the 1980s momentary lapses of reason that have made such a distortion of what is, in fact, "economical or wasteful", into some strange cult with its own mumbo-jumbo-that-mustnt-EVER-get-questioned that it seems very much, sometimes, as if it was set up by a much smaller group of insiders that had somehow figured out a way of getting a rake-off from the very worst excesses of the dodgiest insider dealers.
. . . . the re-interpretation of the 14th amendment of the USAs constitution was A BIT weird - to allow corporations to have all the protections under the law as "natural citizens" - . . . .
( - in fact, the clerk of the court that gave that re-interpretation waited for the actual Judge in the 1860s (?) case TO DIE, THEN wrote down the "new interpretation" . The case was actually about railroad fencing ! - The clerk was rewarded, even if the text was reworded. )
. . . . BUT the WEIRD WEIRD WEIRDNESS of the 1980s "deregulations" is far exceeded by its current vogues. ( "rackets within rackets, glasshopper, when you too are a grinmoister of oz, you too shall comprehend, but as the young earswet near-adept that you are, you must trust us (trussstusstrusssstusss(TO FADE)) - or, in fact, think somebody else explained it really perfectly that time but you werent paying attention, or are you stupid or what(.... assumes dalek voice:
THE-EMP ERORS-NEW-CLOTHES-ARE-GREAT-SUPER
THE-EMP ERORS-NEW-CLOTHES-ARE-GREAT-SUPER
THE-EMP ERORS-NEW-CLOTHES-ARE-GREAT-SUPER
or are you stupid or what?
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"the future is a free good"
or. . . .
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