[PEN-L:28278] Re: Re: It's Greedspan's Fault?

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Michael Perelman" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



> It is amazing how we tend to personalize everything and refuse to
> understand anything systemic.

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Too true, but at the same time effective storytelling can't be done without
reference to agents. This is especially so in the US as the Bible forms the
largely unconscious basis for most citizen's sense of narrative coherence
regarding the world around them. Imagine the Bible as a systemic analysis of
Mediterranean political economy; it's popularity would never have gotten off the
ground. Systemic analysis without agents leaves most people cold.

Ian