I CAN HEAR THE GEARS STRIPPING EVEN NOW...
DID BEN EVER LEARN TO DRIVE A STICK SHIFT...?
AS OUR RESIDENT EXPERT ON "DEPRESSION ECONOMICS" WIEMAR BEN IS IN AN HISTORIC POSITION---FINALLY TO PUT IN PRACTICE WHAT HE HAS BEEN STUDYING FOR SO MANY YEARS...
THE PROBLEM IS...AS I HAVE NOTED... THE ECONOMY IS NOT CAPABLE OF BEING REPRESENTED ON AN "x-y" AXIS...
AND SOME GRAPHS AND CHARTS CAN EVEN BE DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING....
MY BIG ARGUMENT WITH ACADEMIC TYPES IS THAT THEY LIVE IN THEIR OWN LITTLE TENURED WORLD .... WHICH HAS "RULES" ABOUT HOW TO ACT...WHAT TO SAY...HOW TO APPEAR "NUANCED" WHEN YOU'RE REALLY JUST BEING AN ASSHOLE AND A PRICK ABOUT THINGS....
ONE THING THE LATE MR BUCKLEY HAD RIGHT IS THAT I'D RATHER BE GOVERNED BY THE FIRST TEN NAMES IN THE BOSTON PHONE BOOK...THAN BY THE ECON AND BUSINESS SCHOOL "DONS" AT HARVARD...!
WHAT IS NEEDED IS BIG PICTURE THINKING...BECAUSE YOU CAN'T "X-Y" THE BIG PICTURE...
IT'S GOT TO BE MORE OF AN HOLOGRAM...AN INTUITION EVEN...A "SIXTH SENSE"...WHICH ALL CREATIVE PEOPLE HAVE...WHETHER IN BUSINESS OR IN THE ARTS.
ONE THING ACADEMICS LACK ARE THESE MORE PRIMITIVE SENSES OF INTUITION AND STREET SMARTS... OR LET'S JUST CALL IT: "OBAMA THINK."
THE PhD PROGRAMS PRETTY MUCH BEAT THAT OUT OF THEM EARLY ON...
AND ONLY THE DULLEST AND MOST FROZEN SHIT-HEADS MOVE UP...
NEED PROOF:
HAS A PhD IN CREATIVE WRITING EVER WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE...! NO FUCKIN' WAY!!
OR FOUNDED A MEGA-BUSINESS...?
(SURE...THEY ARE HIRED BY THE FOURNDERS LATER TO "RUN THE BUSINESS INTO THE GROUND" FOR THE SECOND GENERATION OWNERS... BUT WHAT THE FUCK GOOD IS THAT!)
REMEMBER EVEN BILL GATES WAS A HARVARD DROP OUT!! AND IF HE HADN'T DROPPED OUT...
HE PROBABLY BE ONE OF THE SALARIED FAT ASS SHIT HEADS TELLING US WHAT TO DO NOW...!!
