Re: [Pen-l] limits on the working week [was: Half-baked Keynes

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

.On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't see that as the origin of such a one-dimensional focus on this
> issue, since concrete reality is (by its very nature)
> multidimensional. But you know better than I do.

Indeed, Jim, analytical convergence was not the origin of my
"one-dimensional" focus. The reason for my seeming monomania is that
along the way I discovered a "conspiracy of silence" on the one topic
-- a refusal to state that the emperor is naked. Although the
nakedness of the emperor is not the only thing in the world that
matters, the refusal to speak about an evident and important truth
makes it more difficult to speak truthfully about other things.

So I've made it my mission to pound away with this "one-dimensional
focus" regardless of the disdain that it might earn me from people who
for reasons of their own think I should be more multidimensional. It's
a conscious decision and one that I've taken with few illusions about
the dangers of being taken for a crank (hence the moniker,
Sandwichman). When the topic ceases to be taboo, I'll find something
else to talk about. Right now my purpose is to break the taboo and
talk about what no one else (with a few exceptions, of course) will
talk about. Why that bothers you is beyond my comprehension. Why is it
a problem for you that I talk about shorter working time but not a
problem for you that the topic has disappeared from the vocabulary of
most Keynesians, Marxists and labor activists?

I'll leave you with the last word, then:

> I think that this discussion has reached its natural end.


-- 
Sandwichman
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