In the same Oct 10 issue of the New Yorker we can read an appreciation of Karl Marx, in a critique of two newish biographies. "Marx was correct that there is nothing naturally egalitarian about modern economies left to themselves." As one writer has put it, "There is no natural, spontaneous process to prevent destabilizing. inegalitarian forces from prevailing permanently" -- Adam Smith or no Adam Smith. In 1900, seventeen years after Marx's death, "the richest one percent of the population in Britain and France owned more than fifty percent of those nations' wealth; the top ten percent owned ninety percent. We are approaching those levels again today." It appears that the thirty years following 1945, in which all classes saw improvements in their incomes and standard of living, was an anomaly, not the normalcy that many perceive it to have been.
This is quite fine haiku, Eameshead.
america swells
with ugly pride. get in line
for your free hot dog
Simply lovely,
Aunt Mark
ps I frosted a cake this morning. Me and the cake got baked from scratch last evening. And what a gorgeous sky-snap, SDR! Gorgeous. Yes.
pss. eat my cake. all invited. no waiting. no purchase necessary. no pleated pants. beverage included.
Ooh. I wannit. How much is train fare to Palm Beach ?
Your artfully irregular frosting job is informal perfection personified. I couldn't do that even if I were sober . . .
Who made the wonderful ceramic (?) openwork bowl in the background ? (Too many question marks. Must do better.)
"artfully irregular" …. I like how you put that SDR, and I like Mark's black and white cake. Artfully irregular kind of reminds me of how the abstract expressionists learned to make "good drips" vs bad drips, with expert paint moves posing as "accidents" -- almost RENDERING with the newly created paint language.
Mark's frosting has been carefully calibrated to appear casual, MAYBE? (I remember arranging a very long row of rectangles for an entire day-- just so they would appear as if they were random. A very specific kind of randomness of course)
Thank you for the haiku compliment Mark.
Hi Howard,
I think those are IKEA chairs. New post-modern edition.
CBS just wanted the set to feel familiar to the donald.
Interesting how the design pendulum swings huh?
EDIT: Actually, that must be where he is holing up deep inside Trump Tower. He probably can't leave yet due to the mob outside, so CBS had to come to him.
Yes, that is his actual "home", the one in Trump Tower.
http://www.idesignarch.com/inside-donald-and-melania-trumps-manhattan-ap...
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