Re: Fundamentals

[Hyman Blumenstock <hystock@xxxxxxxxx>]

John:

How even such a scholar as you continue to struggle through the maze
of overcomplicated rhetoric, and avoid the simple, but profound understanding
of human nature.  Every last one of the people within the groups you cite,
East Germans, Socialists, Intellectuals, Black Market types, Masses,
Advertisers, members of PR firms, Hitler, criminals, rapists, every
last one of us, and even you, all pursue that identical goal. Security
and Sense of Worth (Self Esteem), from whatever platform they start from.
Every last detail you cite falls either under one or the other desire.

That is what Economics is supposed to be all about.  How to get
the entire population as much Security and Sense of Worth as is
humanly possible.  For the last century, once the Scarce Food anomaly
had been solved, it has been a cinch, but for brainwashed minds frightened
of this change for the wrong reasons.

John Gelles wrote:
>
>
>         When the Berlin Wall came down, the impression I got
>         was that East Germans (and all under socialism) were
>         focused more on material ownership of electronic and
>         music store stuff than on anything else.  Their
>         intellectuals were into freedom and politics.  Their
>         balck market types were into business and crime.
>         But the masses were into consumerism.
>
>         Brainwashing by advertisers and PR firms add to the
>         natural desire to own, collect and identify with
>         possessions more than the good deeds you know you
>         should be doing.  But, advertising plays to basic
>         "squirreling" instincts -- I would own every bit
>         of psychic food I could, if I only had the money --
>         type of feelings.
>
>         Examine our own hearts:  Do you own a website?
>         A homepage?  A computer?  No?  You poor thing.
>         I do.  And I have, since they came out -- not as
>         a result of advertising -- but by reason of
>         my attachment to logical machines and love of
>         logical presentation made easier and cheaper.
>
>         John Gelles
>