Comments on: Rope Merchants http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/20/rope-merchants/ The Sweet Release of Reason Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt Frost http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/20/rope-merchants/#comment-351 Matt Frost Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:40:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=380#comment-351 Oops. Read as "Isn't that part and parcel of bobo liberalism?" Oops. Read as “Isn’t that part and parcel of bobo liberalism?”

]]> By: Matt Frost http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/20/rope-merchants/#comment-350 Matt Frost Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:37:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=380#comment-350 "The market may gratify anti-market preferences by selling products that affirm and entrench classic anti-market tropes, thus cementing or even sharpening anti-market preferences. These preferences, expressed electorally, are bad for the market." But hasn't the political market already responded to this need for narrative self-coherence? Isn't that what part and parcel of bobo liberalism? Think about parents who send their kids to private schools and then vote to maintain the public school system as a patronage device and full employment program. In this case, the market is working to catch up with politics. After all, white bourgeois liberals have been around longer than Whole Foods has. “The market may gratify anti-market preferences by selling products that affirm and entrench classic anti-market tropes, thus cementing or even sharpening anti-market preferences. These preferences, expressed electorally, are bad for the market.”

But hasn’t the political market already responded to this need for narrative self-coherence? Isn’t that what part and parcel of bobo liberalism? Think about parents who send their kids to private schools and then vote to maintain the public school system as a patronage device and full employment program.

In this case, the market is working to catch up with politics. After all, white bourgeois liberals have been around longer than Whole Foods has.

]]> By: Matt Frost http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/20/rope-merchants/#comment-348 Matt Frost Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=380#comment-348 "The market may gratify anti-market preferences by selling products that affirm and entrench classic anti-market tropes, thus cementing or even sharpening anti-market preferences. These preferences, expressed electorally, are bad for the market." But hasn't the political market already responded to this need for narrative self-coherence? Isn't that what part and parcel of bobo liberalism? Think about parents who send their kids to private schools and then vote to maintain the public school system as a patronage device and full employment program. In this case, the market is working to catch up with politics. After all, white bourgeois liberals have been around longer than Whole Foods has. “The market may gratify anti-market preferences by selling products that affirm and entrench classic anti-market tropes, thus cementing or even sharpening anti-market preferences. These preferences, expressed electorally, are bad for the market.”

But hasn’t the political market already responded to this need for narrative self-coherence? Isn’t that what part and parcel of bobo liberalism? Think about parents who send their kids to private schools and then vote to maintain the public school system as a patronage device and full employment program.

In this case, the market is working to catch up with politics. After all, white bourgeois liberals have been around longer than Whole Foods has.

]]> By: Matt Frost http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/20/rope-merchants/#comment-349 Matt Frost Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=380#comment-349 Oops. Read as "Isn't that part and parcel of bobo liberalism?" Oops. Read as “Isn’t that part and parcel of bobo liberalism?”

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