Re: Capital, Dostoyevsky, et al...

D.L. Richardson (002134r@DRAGON.ACADIAU.CA)
Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:30:13 -0400

>
> I'm skeptical about the ability to forecast 25 years into the future.
> Did the pundits of 1970 come anywhere close to picturing the world of
> 1995? Or the experts of 1945 to predicting the world of 1970? Not from
> what I've read (Marshall McLuhan seems to have the best batting average).

Hm. Yeah. Forecasting the future is a shade tricky, as there are usually,
(what, us being human and all ;), a zillion and one unforeseen circumstances
that arise between "now" and "then". Sure, we can guess, but chances are,
no one is gonna be "right".

> The best we can do, it seems to me, is to find whatever verities there are
> about human behavior and watch how they emerge in new contexts.

Thus, sociology ;> Thus, my fascination with sociology :>
>

> "Money is coined liberty." Dostoyevsky. Better than Das Kapital, and
> somewhat shorter.
>
*laugh* Oh man, can I tell you how much I wish _Capital_ was shorter?
Summer before last I'm invited to a "Commie Camp" (actually the "Communist
Party of Canada Summer Educational" -- a week at a cottage with lotsa
drinkin' and *great* food) anyhow, I'm invited to this thing, and it is
suggested that I read _Capital_ before I get there. So, *vroom* I cancel
everything on my schedule for a week and a half and read Vol 1. And I
finished it. I was the *only* one there (save one prof and the leader of
the CPC) who had read it. I was the youngest one there too.

Fun bunch, great partiers, a shade too utopian for my blood, thank you. :>

Anyhoo...back to essay land for this young chihuahua. *ugh*
(ps. for those who read my "life sucks" rants of last week, things are
much better now, thanks for caring ;) It's still essay-season tho'. *sob*

*wave* have fun, y'all...see ya on the flip side.

- Deb

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