[lbo-talk] literacy

[Diane Monaco]

Doug wrote:
> Alexander Nekvasil wrote:
>
> >Capitalism is not healthy in our day.  It runs on
> >simulated growth
>
> So the U.S. doesn't really have a GDP of $11 trillion? It's all a
simulacrum? Baudrillard would be impressed.
>

...and we'd be doomed (pre-Keynes, pre-macroeconomics, pre-Great Depression
days) with no references to reality and the connections between "sign" and
"referent" altered forever.  We'd never be able to find the "real" in all
this. Yikes! But perhaps we could also cheat a bit as the "The Matrix"
directors (Wachowski) did and not be completely true to Baudrillard's
simulacrum.  We could leave a few connections and a hovercraft like
Nebuchadnezzar for the journey :).

All best,
Diane