One Of The Chief Features Of Incompetence

Anyway That's A Large Part Of What Economics Is - People Arbitrarily, Or As A Matter Of Taste, Assigning Numerical Values To Non-numerical Things. And Then Pretending That They Haven't Just Made The Numbers Up, Which They Have. Economics Is Like Astrology In That Sense, Except That Economics Serves To Justify The Current Power Structure, And So It Has A Lot Of Fervent Believers Among The Powerful

We All Have Secret Lives. The Life Of Excretion; The World Of Inappropriate Sexual Fantasies; Our Real Hopes, Our Terror Of Death; Our Experience Of Shame; The World Of Pain; And Our Dreams. No One Else Knows These Lives. Consciousness Is Solitary. Each Person Lives In That Bubble Universe That Rests Under The Skull, Alone.

We Dream, We Wake On A Cold Hillside, We Pursue The Dream Again. In The Beginning Was The Dream, And The Work Of Disenchantment Never Ends.

How Was It That Destruction Could Be So Beautiful? Was There Something In The Scale Of It? Was There Some Shadow In People, Lusting For It? Or Was It Just A Coincidental Combination Of The Elements, The Final Proof That Beauty Has No Moral Dimension?

Childhood Isn't Just Those Years. It's Also The Opinions You Form About Them Afterward. That's Why Our Childhoods Are So Long.