Philp Pilkington wrote:
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> Interesting dilemma... but what if people are trying to apply an entirely
> inadequate framework to the problem? Is it material conditions generating
> economic chaos; or is it psychological factors causing the downturn? But
> here's a question: what if its absolute ideational and economic confusion?
> What if we weren't to attribute the "cause" to either psychological OR
> material factors and were to put it down to pure... as Sartre called it...
> "nausea"?
Suppose someone with an irresistable (even pathological) tendency to bounce a rubber ball on every brick surface he walked on. Put him in a village in an area where there are no bricks. What do you know, even that pathology doesn't result in rubber balls bouncing on brick pavements.
Carrol