Chicago Schooled

I wrote a paper in graduate school in economics years ago claiming, essentially, Milton Friedman was a dualist -- that he viewed the world in relation to his 'theory' and not the other way around. This is an analog to Calvinism in that it doesn't want to see the purity of a higher, immaterial realm sullied by reality. And Friedman claimed to be an empiricist. 

Pshaw! In reality he was an arrogant prick who looked down on the lesser beings who were denied access to his Shangri La of economic perfection and bliss by their ignorance and lack of intelligence. I was the real empiricist, observing that Friedman was a smug asshole and going from there, though it worked out for me theoretically, I think. 

Anyway, we have many more data points now, meaning right wing assholes and spurious academics clinging to their precious ideas that reside in a place of utter perfection like those Calvinist souls that preexisted in purity with God and long for nothing but to return there. Which is to say, to die. Have at it! 

I mean, people die and shit and rot in the ground and look like a cow on the inside and stuff. Yuck! Milton no doubt ascended to somewhere to rub elbows with other higher beings. The thing is, this all begins with contempt. Contempt and insecurity and suspicions of superiority that can never be verified relating to access to those higher realms of thought. 

Access to perfection.

But you see the problem here. They are stuck in that fucking body with the rest of us waiting for Cheryl Tiegs to realize she is in love with them. Does this sound familiar? Notice this leads to chronic dissatisfaction with life and impatience with all the dolts they are forced to live with, non-Nobel Prize winners and other riffraff. Irrational economic actors.

Oh, fucking double-yuck!

Unattractive people. And, when I ask if it sounds familiar, does Musk come to mind? Or another of these life-loathing technocrats who rule the world? And they have joined forces with -- wait, guess who -- envangelical Christians! Retrograde Calvinists. Beautiful! Wonderful! What a great thing, to have people in charge who absolutely loathe life. 

Great idea! Who came up with this? Shouldn't they get a Nobel Prize or something? So, you see, they are left to cling to unverifiable hypotheses. Their theories reside right in there in the same compartment with that belief in their superiority and Cheryl Tiegs needing to come to her senses. Hope on, delusional boys. But leave us the hell out of it!