Thursday, April 03, 2025

The Metaphor…

... is 19th century pre-modern medicine, when the patient (in 19th century literature, anyway) always got worse until “the fever broke,” and then they were going to get better.

Pretty much the way economies were treated too, until, at a guess, the working of Adam Smith.

So, yeah: he’s delusional and full of shit, and he can’t get past the 19th century, because he wants to live unironically in the NYC of Edith Wharton, and worry only about his place in that society, a society in which the poor and the non-white were neither seen nor heard.

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