[ExI] What is Grace?

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Mar 10 23:10:31 UTC 2009


At 03:35 PM 3/10/2009 -0600, Jeff wrote:

>the economic house of cards?  I think that blind-sided everyone.
>My question is, How could that have happened?  I mean the boom and
>bust pattern is all but cliche, totally predictable, so where is the
>structural defect in "the system" that directs/enables humans to drive
>over the same cliff again and again?

The lack of moral reasoning in every greedy self-blinding bastard 
involved, which is almost everyone. This is not a plea for some 
socialist doctrine denouncing individual enterprise; I'm sure Ayn 
Rand would be there first and foremost making the same argument.

Damien Broderick





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