"Barbarians in the grip of an obscurantist faith" is a phrase coined by Paul Krugman in his New York Times article A Dark Age of macroeconomics (wonkish) of a couple of years ago.
Read that article to gain an inkling -- perhaps -- of the fact that extremist "vested interest" economics has little to do with economic understanding or reality.
Rather, as Rob Graham writes in one of the comments to that article:
"Knowledge in the feudal age was not meant to improve understanding of the world. It was meant to support the status quo. Its purpose was to make sure that things didn’t change, that those with power remained in power.We wrote about America and the role of "change" in our previous posting.
Whether such knowledge was in tune with the way the world worked or that knowledge improved the lot of society was not a consideration.
A pity we’ve returned to that time."
Those who wish to keep the status quo of an incredible inequality in America as concerns money, earnings, property and wealth, may view themselves to be Americans, but in fact, that is not the philosophy that made America.
On the contrary, that is the selfish philosophy that historically has led all the great cultures of man's past into decadence and defeat.
When the Bible says that the "meek" shall inherit the Earth, they are not speaking of all the prosperous people in America who are unwilling to properly fund and finance the country which has granted them the life of advantage that they enjoy.
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