Evan O'Neil said...
Letting the GINI out of the bottle again, eh? So you've been to this transplendently egalitarian country. Is it paradise on ice? A little koan: If you cite one statistic in a vacuum, is it significant? What about unemployment, alcoholism, suicide, STD pervalence, energy expended per unit of economic output, patent applications per annum? Sorry to be rubbing the lamp so hard on this one, but sometimes the gilt comes off in your hands.
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yeah the GINI's out and it has but one wish - to be taken as a fuckin fragment. its sick of watching livecams of supermarkets and photoblogs be digested as acceptable pieces in the montage that is Iran and wonders why it needs a voodoo ensemble of economic data to validate itself.
you want koan:
if you stare at the GINI long enough, the GINI stares back
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touché, mein überfriend. i will meditate on that. seriously. i'm sorry if I was harsh with the GINI. i just fear that the irresistible idolatry of equality is not immune from sorrow.
ReplyDeletemeanwhile, this tempest in a teapot and talk of koans reminds me of Yoko's Mend Piece. Did you ever notice that Iran and Iraq are not on the list of countries on the dedication plaque in Strawberry Fields in Central Park? They were at war at the time.