Sublime

Adam Smith.

The single greatest enemy of contemporary satisfaction may be the belief in human perfectibility. We have been driven to collective rage through the apparently generous yet in reality devastating idea that it might be within our natural remit to be completely and enduringly happy.

Like psychology in James’s time, economics in our time has been founded on what you might call a negative paradigm. Its apostles and pioneers, like Adam Smith in the eighteenth century, David Ricardo in the nineteenth, and Milton Friedman in the twentieth, have stood on one another’s shoulders to build a dogma whose fundamental doctrine was to

money is the operating system of our society.

You are the one who sees.

I am, therefore I think.