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[Justin Schwartz]

I take it that Brad's response is some sort of a sneer, the suggestion 
being--what? The Jamesom is as irrelevanr as Virgil? I'd like to bea s 
irrelevant as Virgil. Or that Jameson's is singing a poem to Bush, the 
modern Augustus? Or flattering his hosts by priaing their ancestors? Or that 
Jameson is seeking donations by chicanery, taking advantage of the religion 
of the credulous? Or just talking about something old, imaginary, and 
immaterial? (Because everything old is immaterial?) Am I being dense, Brad? 
I'm not getting your point. --jks


>>A nice bloke called Fred reckonms we're all economists now, that that's 
>>how
>>we relate to each other, and that we don't so much produce our culture in
>>living our lives, where and when we are, but consciously make it up with 
>>an
>>eye to flogging it to someone.
>
>And this is different from Virgil composing the Aeneid for Augustus
>or Irish bards singing about the noble deeds of the mythical
>ancestors of their hosts or monks making up stories of the saint
>whose bone is in the wall to encourage donations... how, exactly?
>
>
>Brad DeLong

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