Mind's Eye Re: the standard over-optimist?

This is true rigs - but the deeper point on this is about how we
maintain a more collective form of madness and lack the means to
question it without massive resistance. I forget most of Freud these
days James, though I'm looking at Weber again. I rather like the idea
of looking at ourselves as Jared Diamond suggests in terms of
societies that went barking into ecocide. I'm not really a tree
hugger (though have been known to hug trees), but feel we have to find
ways to admit we've got most things upside down. On the personal
paranoid side James, I now find myself believing very little outside
of science in the guise of public argument and academic trivia. I've
long believed creativity is killed stone dead by 'smiling ignorance'
and daft ideas like brainstorming - because the critical edge needs to
be sharp and stun the ideological trance.

I find myself a proponent of de-schooling after so much time in
education. Apple is now 'worth more' (in market capitalisation) than
the whole of US retail. I don't like being retailed and would be
happy to see the shops go in favour of more direct sales. What we
miss is stuff like this means we are finding new efficiencies, but
retain the same old ideas on what jobs are for. Fear not, the
private sector cavalry will ride in with new products and services -
but where are they? My guess is this is all to do with our easy
acceptance of positive gloss and lack of ability to take
responsibility for new ways of living. This is so bad we 'believe'
that global competition will do something other than put us all on
Chinese wages and conditions.

On Mar 15, 6:12 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I particularly like the research on investment CEOs that shows they
> > over-rate their abilities and actually produce 'negative alpha' rather
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> > threaten to go away if we restrict their 'earnings'.  The quick
> > portrait of Steve Jobs also demonstrates a main theme of the 'rich are
> > mean' in his selfish world in which rules do not apply to him.  One
> > wonders whether Apple might be an American manufacturer (and so on) if
> > we had proper economic rules that stop chancers like him doing their
> > immoral stuff?
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> > On Mar 14, 2:23 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=opting-out-of-overop...
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> > > This is an interesting little story covering some of the research
> > > demonstrating people are over-optimistic and this has dangerous
> > > outcomes.  I winder if this is how the peculiar views on economics
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