Dear Victor,
Your comments below made me think of one of my
favorite observations by Ortega y Gasset, which you
might also like to use when expounding on this theme:
"Myth is that which is taken for granted when thought
begins."
Or, a joke about Vermonters by themselves: A stranger
asks for directions to get to a remote village and is
told by the local, "You can't get there from here!"
That even some economists recognize the principle is
manifested in the most recent offering by John Kenneth
Galbraith, "The Economics of Innocent Fraud".
Keith
--- Vic Bridger <socred@ecn.net.au> wrote:
>
> To Wally,
> I have noticed the various postings in which
> orthodox economics has arisen.
> It would be wise to remember what C.H. Douglas
said,
> and quite correctly,
> when he pointed out that we should never take as
a
> beginning to a
> discussion a statement or supposition by an
orthodox
> economist. Our starting
> point is our position and we can argue from that.
If
> you accept a theory or
> argument which is based on orthodox economics it
is
> not possible to make
> any advancement with those who defer to it. We
know
> from vast experience
> that unless someone, economist or not, is
prepared
> to argue on our terms it
> is a useless exercise. We know that there are
none
> so blind as those who
> cannot see. It is also true that there are those
> who choose to be blind
> because they have not read, studied or are not
> prepared to accept the
> obvious. We should endeavour to let our
> protagonists know that we are not
> out to convert them. They have to do this
> themselves. We can show the way
> just like you can lead a horse to water but you
> cannot make him drink. Much
> of what I have seen over the last month or two is
a
> lot of verbiage and very
> little acquiescence in principle.
> Vic Bridger
>
>
>
>
>
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