The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Gary Ashwill <gna at duke.edu>
>
>on 4/6/01 6:41 PM, Carl Remick at carlremick at hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > point.  Having until recently occupied a perch in the corporate world, I
> > have, one might say, been in the position of an artillery spotter.  And 
>let
> > me tell you, LBOers, *none* of the furious salvos of intensely academic
> > commentary fired off here make the slightest difference to, or are even
> > heard by, the business world.
>
>"The business world" has its own brand of mystifying and obfuscatory talk,
>doesn't it? Not to mention its own perches in academia (in economics
>departments and b-schools, etc.).

You're on to something there, Gary.  It's been said that America is a rich 
country not because it has a lot of MBAs but that America has a lot of MBAs 
because it is a rich country.  There is great symmetry between the delusions 
of the business world and the delusions of the academic left.  The former 
engages in furious make-work pretending to create economic value -- as in 
the dot.com mania -- while the latter engages in furious make-work 
pretending to create "transgressive" insights.  Both camps harbor a smug 
certitude that they possess secret knowledge that elevates them from the 
common run of humanity.

It's a complete folie a deux.  The only agency in this society that really 
delivers hard value is the Pentagon, whose muscle allows us to plunder, one 
way or another, the rest of the world -- so providing the wherewithal to 
keep the denizens of business and academia fat, sassy and happy in their 
playacting.

Carl
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