DeLong: America's Date With Deflation

eric dorkin eric_dorkin at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 26 13:21:01 PDT 2002


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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