… and in order to fit in better with the people around you, feel the need to blast off about ten IQ points, you are in luck! Just watch this from our good chums over at the BBC. It is an experience a bit like holding a live piranha to the side of your head.
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With a build up like that, how can I not watch this? I am sure if it featured Russell Brand you would have written it was like holding two live piranhas to the side of your head.
Piranhas don’t tend to attack people much. Some are veggies even.
I’m guessing one would if you held it to the side of your head or stuck your finger in its mouth.
The utter vacuity of the Left in all their bare-faced ignominy.
I can’t tell what point he is trying to make, or even if there is one. It’s just noise with some key words thrown in.
I need to blast off about thirty. Will watching it three times work?
ap is clearly made of stern stuff. Or just a masochist perhaps.
Perry you would have to pay me quite a lot of money before I watched something with this sort of mental health warning attached.
I know the BBC (and the rest of the academic-media establishment) rather well.
I have no need to watch more of their evil and their insanity.
Maybe Perry lowered my expectations, but it was a lot more fair-minded than I expected, and more fair-minded than you’d be likely to find from a similar production on this side of the pond. At least they acknowledged that what’s being done in the name of Keynes often isn’t really Keynsianism. And that Friedman’s ideas actually work, when they’re tried. They do fall into the silly “greed” trap, but it would be expecting a lot to think that they wouldn’t. The “greed” meme has been under careful construction for two centuries, so it’s pretty deeply ingrained by now.
“The Battle of Bretton Woods”
Benn Steil
J.M. Keynes in action.