Neoclassical Logic

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 16 19:25:30 PST 2001


Brad DeLong wrote:


>But at the moment there isn't enough to give everyone once-a-year
>vacations at Kapalua Beach in Hawaii a broadband connection to the
>internet, or a large-screen TV-VCR on which to watch their own
>copies of "Don Giovanni," "Casablanca," "The Seven Samurai," and
>"The Rules of the Game" when it strikes them.
>
>And then there is the problem of creating people who will realize
>that they really want to watch "The Rules of the Game" instead of
>"Survivor IX: Eating Rats and Backstabbing Your Fellows in the
>Amazon," and realize that they want to be connected citizens and
>species-beings rather than anomic liberal individuals.

To create a growing audience for _The Rules of the Game_ (1939), etc., we need movie theaters & social milieus of politically-engaged organizers & intellectuals, *not* 12 billion large-screen TV & VCR sets!

Yoshie



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