DeLong: America's Date With Deflation

[eric dorkin]

yes..the knowledge that you are better than your
neighbor because you can appreciate High
Culture.....sort of like the scene in Husband & Wives
where Max Von Sydow's character refuses to sell his
art to the musician just because it matched the star's
sofa.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> 
> >On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 12:32 PM, Ian Murray
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Bradford DeLong"
> <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
> >>Surely we should struggle to preserve
> pre-modernist, modernist,
> >>>and post-modernist High Culture as parts of our
> Plan for Human
> >>>Liberation, shouldn't we?
> >>>
> >>>Brad DeLong
> >>================
> >>
> >>A Picasso in every Yurt! Ibn Khaldun and Zeami
> studied by 6th 
> >>graders! Zizek and Butler in
> >>every Dentists office!
> >>
> >>Ian
> >
> >sounds pretty cool, to me. :-)
> 
> But what fun are luxuries if everyone has them? Will
> there be no 
> positional goods after the revo?
> 
> Doug

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