Comments on: Berkeley’s Idealism http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:56:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Elaine Supkis http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/comment-page-1/#comment-66731 Elaine Supkis Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:16:30 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/#comment-66731 Sort of like becoming the helmsman at the wheel of the Titanic? "I am in control now! OH NO!" Sort of like becoming the helmsman at the wheel of the Titanic?

“I am in control now! OH NO!”

]]> By: bob h http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/comment-page-1/#comment-66601 bob h Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:28:35 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/#comment-66601 The size of the "clawback" is of course perfectly irrelevant since Bush's "plan" is in such a hopeless condition that he is reduced to poking his head into file cabinets at the Bureau of Public Debt and proclaiming them full of worthless IOU's. What I wonder is how Bush makes the transition to giving up on SS without the public noticing too much. A major, discontinuous event like a national security crisis seems called for. The size of the “clawback” is of course perfectly irrelevant since Bush’s “plan” is in such a hopeless condition that he is reduced to poking his head into file cabinets at the Bureau of Public Debt and proclaiming them full of worthless IOU’s.

What I wonder is how Bush makes the transition to giving up on SS without the public noticing too much. A major, discontinuous event like a national security crisis seems called for.

]]> By: Maynard Handley http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/comment-page-1/#comment-66512 Maynard Handley Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:57:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/#comment-66512 And so it starts. This is, of course, to test the guy out. If he's willing to say any BS, fine, he follows Greenspan. And if he remains annoyingly sane, he gets left at the CEA, and pleasantly enough, he's not at the fed and able to make trouble for Greenspan's successor, who will, of course, be a bona fide Bush yes man --- no pessimistic inflation fighting for him. And so it starts. This is, of course, to test the guy out. If he’s willing to say any BS, fine, he follows Greenspan. And if he remains annoyingly sane, he gets left at the CEA, and pleasantly enough, he’s not at the fed and able to make trouble for Greenspan’s successor, who will, of course, be a bona fide Bush yes man—- no pessimistic inflation fighting for him.

]]> By: washerdreyer http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/comment-page-1/#comment-66399 washerdreyer Tue, 05 Apr 2005 05:49:43 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/#comment-66399 I'd imagine students there hear jokes like the title far too often to be amused by them, but I thought it was clever. Also, I thought the paradigm of pundit's fallacy was, "Joe Schmo should enact policy X because it will have good political results," where the fallacy is that there's no reason to think it will have those results, but the pundit likes the policy. This isn't really like that, it's just DeLong being optimistic. I’d imagine students there hear jokes like the title far too often to be amused by them, but I thought it was clever. Also, I thought the paradigm of pundit’s fallacy was, “Joe Schmo should enact policy X because it will have good political results,” where the fallacy is that there’s no reason to think it will have those results, but the pundit likes the policy. This isn’t really like that, it’s just DeLong being optimistic.

]]> By: john c. halasz http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/comment-page-1/#comment-66381 john c. halasz Tue, 05 Apr 2005 03:38:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/04/berkeley-idealism/#comment-66381 To be is to be perceived? To be is to be perceived?

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