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i love this idiocy....the "academics vs. the real world" schitck---the final resort of people who cannot defend their positions---funny stuff.
and and and i even got slagged for my "name"...
i argued earlier in the thread that perhaps--just perhaps--the discussion could be made more interesting if folk tried to step a little bit back from the religious adherence to neoclassical economic theory and think, just for a minute, that the problem with that approach might--just might--be in how the variables are defined (for example)--and that just passes by the conservatives here, who feel much better about discussion when it is simply extending arguments that are indefensible on any grounds except their own---the same folk who talk about freedom and individual repsonsibility avoid any prompt to take responsibility as individuals for their own positions, either at the level of how the framework is put together or at the level of consequences of their own arguments---no wonder your politics are such a fucking disaster when they actually influence policy.
what you seem to want is less a conversation than a circle jerk.
the world is easier when there is no-one to call you on your assumptions. but you know, if you hold a position, it is beyond weak to not be able to even articulate them, much less defend them. no matter how much you talk about individual freedom and such, if you cant do that, you have none.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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