I got this diving-down-the-rabbithole sensation reading the sweeping generalizations in your post alleging that "you and others" make sweeping generalizations about you. That way lies madness. You might want to get grounded by rereading my post. It was entirely supportive of your intention to look deeper into my "claims".

It's worth getting to know about economics in a real world context. It seems to be at the heart of most politics, always in the past and especially now. I've mentioned in passing how impressed I am by Thomas Piketty's new book "Capital in the 21st Century", and I think it's going to be as significant a book as Adam Smith's and Karl Marx's work. Already as many people have read it as ever read the older works, and his ideas are sparking some hot brain-on-brain action all around the world. It would be a refreshing change to find somebody around the Zone willing to talk seriously about economics, something better than "golly gee whiz capitalism's the very bestest thing ever and anybody who disagrees is a commie traitor". I've gotten way too much of that kind of vapid shit over the years.

Enjoy Chuck E, and we'll talk more in August.