Re: [Mind's Eye] Re: Economy

Frankly, I wish there was an omnipotent surgeon who could cut out all "challenges" euphemisms in this world. 

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM, rigsy03 <rigsy03@gmail.com> wrote:

They need to appear as a world player- frankly their investments in
the USA/Greece seem ridiculous as they have more than enough
challenges in their own country.

On Jun 27, 12:52 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> None of this austerity stuff makes any sense Allan.  I'm not even sure
> the Chinese have any money given the property bubble over there.  I
> think the banks should be taken over rather than letting our public
> sectors end up in their hands.
>
> On Jun 26, 2:27 pm, Contemplative <wjwiel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Does it serve man?  (I am not disagreeing, just questioning...)  
> > I am going to suggest (for arguments sake) that the economy describes a set
> > of
> > (system of)relationships and behaviors of man.  Those relationships and
> > behaviors would
> > exist regardless of how we chose to describe them.  That indicates a
> > 'natural system' to my
> > way of thinking.  From a broad perspective, such systems evolve in the
> > interest of the survival
> > of the species and therefor serve man.  However, there is a distinction
> > between serving man
> > at that level and serving man at the level of mans will.(using 'man' as
> > mankind here).  I presume
> > that your are speaking of it as serving mans will.(?)
>
> > Perhaps the problem I have is with the way we talk about the economy.  We
> > talk about it as if it is a complex
> > machine that we can manipulate as we see fit and as such predict the
> > outcome.  That is plainly not
> > true as has repeatedly and painfully proven.  I guess I would like to hear
> > it talked about and considered more
> > as a natural system which is better learned about through observation. In
> > other words, something we live in instead
> > of a machine that we drive or operate.  I think we could learn a lot more
> > about ourselves if we were to view it
> > that way.  I also think that we would likely make less drastic mistakes
> > regarding this system if we were to
> > approach it this way.
>
> > We need a way to balance between our holistic 'expert' view and the view  of
> > the system as more holonic.
> > In other words, I don't trust experts.... :-)
>
> > By the way, the source of these wandering rants has been my endeavor to
> > consume and digest the contents of
> > the FCIC report which I downloaded and have been snacking/gnawing on for a
> > couple of months now...  I recommend
> > it by the way.  It is not nearly as dry as I would have thought, and
> > reasonably informative, though I doubt
> > it could be described as comprehensive.  It has been and continues to be a
> > source of thought provocation for me.
>

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