Winter Is Coming | Opinion
For a show filled with fire-breathing dragons and Machiavellian politics, Game of Thrones is surprisingly rich with economic metaphors that resemble the world we live in. To start, although the Seven Kingdoms of the Westoros continent, where the saga unfolds, have the social and technological characteristics of medieval Europe, its economy ebbs and flows like the modern business cycle. Seasons on the continent lasts years. For an agrarian society, summer is like an economic boom and winter is like an economic depression. And just like the fictional long winter, everyone knows that the economic depression is coming—but no one knows when. The economy of the Seven Kingdoms reached a sorry state during the show. But the fate of the Seven Kingdoms was perhaps sealed before the show’s start. This is a narrative that Americans can relate to. In the show, King Robert ran a deficit every year when the time was good—because he could. So what should the Seven Kingdoms have done? Jonathan Z.
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An Original Thinker of Our Time by Cass R. Sunstein
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman Princeton University Press, 740 pp., $39.95 Albert Hirschman, who died late last year, was one of the most interesting and unusual thinkers of the last century. Hirschman is principally known for four remarkable books. Finally, The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991) is a study of the reactionary’s tool kit, identifying the standard objections to any and all proposals for reform. Hirschman’s work changes how you see the world. The current debate over gun control is a case study in “the rhetoric of reaction.” Hirschman, born in 1915 in Berlin, was an economist by training, and he spent a lot of time reading Adam Smith, but his great intellectual loves were Montaigne (with his advice to “observe, observe perpetually”) and Machiavelli. As Jeremy Adelman shows in his astonishing and moving biography, Hirschman sought, in his early twenties and long before becoming a writer, to “prove Hamlet wrong.”
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What Happens at the End of Infinite Jest? (or, the Infinite Jest ending explained)
WARNING: This whole thing is one gigantic spoiler. Only read it if you’ve already tried to figure it out for yourself first. Gately, having relived his bottom, begins to recover from his infection. But at the same time, Hal’s condition deepens. In life he created the Entertainment to draw Hal out (Hal moves outwardly but doesn’t feel inside; victims of the Entertainment feel—something—inside but don’t move outwardly). JOI’s wraith is responsible for the strange disturbances around ETA — tripods in the forest, moving Ortho’s bed, ceiling tiles on the floor. JOI also created DMZ as part of an attempt to undo the effects of Hal’s eating mold as a child (recall: DMZ is a mold that grows on a mold). Hal never leaves leaves his toothbrush unattended (870), but that’s no problem for a wraith. It’s too late because someone got there first and took the anti-Entertainment cartridge (126) embedded in JOI’s head (31). Well said and eminently plausible. posted by jackd on September 17, 2009 # Thanks.
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The Thoreau Poison: Shane Carruth's 'Upstream Color'
“There is something deeply and indefinably interesting in the swinish race,” the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, in 1841, from Brook Farm, the Massachusetts commune where he was helping to care for pigs and other livestock. “They appear the more a mystery, the longer you gaze at them; it seems as if there was an important meaning to them, if you could but find out.” A viewer of Shane Carruth’s new movie “ Upstream Color ” may come away with a similar feeling. In Carruth’s movie, two lovers are mysteriously linked to each other, and to two pigs. The lovers may even care a little more for the pigs than for each other. The nature of the link is so gruesome that I spent a fair part of the movie’s first twenty minutes yelping, writhing in my chair, and covering my eyes—to the mortification, I suspect, of the other patrons in the movie theatre, who took in the scenes with the equanimity typical of supercool Williamsburg. In “Upstream Color,” the hero is a parasitic worm.
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