On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> Barrington Moore coined the term "catonism" to denote the lip
> service to "peasant values and way of life threatened by modern
> decadence" paid by the most reactionary elements of society
> (landowners) in times of systemic transformation or modernization of
> the economy.
An absolutely brilliant coinage. The Cato Institute, incidentally, is named for the grandson-suicide, who was even more reactionary than his forbear.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos