tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8559449928628260906..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Another Giant Sucking Sound?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-63534926463414784622012-09-22T15:13:19.024-07:002012-09-22T15:13:19.024-07:00This will not really work, I suppose this way.This will not really work, I suppose this way.Amabelhttp://www.theverve.co.uk/index.php?/forums/member/579737/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8520658092075544302011-06-30T08:50:57.792-07:002011-06-30T08:50:57.792-07:00This sounds like a great book. I just ordered a co...This sounds like a great book. I just ordered a copy. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34745442245658653432011-06-30T08:07:40.441-07:002011-06-30T08:07:40.441-07:00For all the Wall Street bashing that goes on, &quo...For all the Wall Street bashing that goes on, "progressives" of the Obama stamp are far more comfortable with bankers, brokers, etc than with people who run manufacturing, transportation, or retailing companies. The situation is analogous to the traditional English class structure, in which it was best to be a non-working landowner, next best to be a government official, marginally acceptable to be in finance, and not at all acceptable to be "in trade."<br /><br />See "English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit," by Martin Weiner. Apparently, the class prejudice noted above got significantly worse in the mid-to-late 1800s:<br /><br />“At the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Britain was the home of the industrial revolution, a symbol of material progress to the world…By the nineteen-seventies, falling levels of capital investment raised the specter of outright “de-industrialization”…The emerging culture of industrialism, which in the mid-Victorian years appeared, for good or ill, to be the wave of the future…was itself transformed….the later nineteenth century saw the consolidation of a national elite that, by virtue of its power and prestige, played a central role both in Britain’s modern achievements and its failures. It administered the most extensive empire in human history with reasonable effectiveness and humanity, and it maintained a remarkable degree of political and social stability at home…It also presided over the steady and continued erosion of the nation’s economic position in the world. The standards of value of this new elite of civil servants, professionals, financiers, and landed proprietors, inculcated by a common eduction in public schools and ancient universities and reflected in the literary culture it patronized, permeated by their prestige much of British society beyond the elite itself. Those standards did little to support, and much to discourage, economic dynamism. They threw earlier enthusiams for technology into disrepute, emphasized the social evils brought by the industrial revolution, directed attention to issues of the “quality of life” in preference to the quantitative concerns of production and expansion, and disparaged the restlessness and acquisitiveness of industrial capitalism.”David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com