i like reading things i can call superb without a hint of irony. thanks. the "encouragement" bit (sentence 2 below) is at the very heart of what's referred to as approximationsgrad in ideology-conscious speak. this is a project of archeology i had not previously seen done on that discipline. love the mechanistic influence traced. but of course we're going much further here. without addressing the true origin, or actual causal function of the spin (the gap that's being approximated, the "status quo as a desired state", admittedly), properly, we would have gotten into some sort of post-modern spin of a self-perpetuating narrative or something fancy ["Paris fashion" hey] along those lines. human nature resolved nicely on the very own terms of those knights of the new world order, which obviously evapourates all the nonsense one is trying to construct on that. the most interesting feeling i had whilst reading it was, 'ok we know all this, and what is the "jist" [marshall] to this whole tale of human self-imagination?' what next higher level of reflection is feeling tickled here? yes, i am talking grand narrative.. if you're feeling ready to co-write edition two on "ethics of information: wrongdoing- unaware", on agency [a form of confusion really] and social groups constructing themselves in the realm of ideas everybody's fantasising about, reproducing themselves culturally(*), let me know. be aware that the modern neo-classical economist is what remains of the keynesian technocratic class installed following social unrest during the great depression and similar disasters. selling out without seeing too much of the bacon. consider the operator as an expression of the faulty human characteristic necessary to the Weberian monster of rationality. alienation. apple + snake. bifter.

(*) actually- sexual reproduction of groups! consider that the intellectual (albeit Christian) elites of the medieval period weren't supposed to reproduce sexually! Mental Christians hey.. love that Ned Flanders article.. cross-ref prob

N.B.: it's official. studying economics, and falling for one or more of the subject's ridiculous claims to wisdom, will turn you into a dick.

"Gode and Sunder concluded that there was no need to assume a rational, profit-oriented, homo economicus: outcomes were being shaped by the structure of the market, rather than by the nature of its participants. [...] Mirowski's vision of economics without homo economicus is so attractive partly because one disturbing aspect of performativity is that, by assuming egoism, economics may encourage it. [...] In most of their experimental groups, however, players invested around 40 per cent of their tokens in the collective exchange. Except, that is, when the game was played by graduate students in economics: they performed as rational egoists, with an outcome closer to the mutually impoverishing prediction of economic theory than that of any other group."