[TheForge] Re: guardrails and handrails

[Andy Vida]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
> Andy quoth:
> 
> > the goal is to generate a bill.  And so it was true.  Without the
> > bill, it is as you say, nothing more than a hobby.
> 
> [Rant-mode ON]
> 
>     This little squibb of mercenary pseudo-wisdom is a sour rendering
>     in the mode of pop anecdote of the feeble-minded reductionism of
>     MBA school, biz jargon nattering and religious economics.  You
>     flossinaucinihilipilify the numerous -- possibly arbitrarily
>     numerous -- dimensions of human intent and action into the single
>     dimension of bottom line.  That is the risible tool of all those
>     people in biz who can manage neither complexity nor ambiguity and
>     who consequently can achieve self-esteem only by attaching it to
>     the single variable of net cash.

	Holy hell... can someone please tell me what this means?
> 
>     Your pejorative "nothing more than a hobby" follows the lead of
>     the Religion of Economics in conflating all purpose, intent,
>     desire and creation not associated with a mercenary exchange into
>     putatively pointless frivolity and dismissing it as "friction" or
>     as an irrelevancy in the single-valued purity of commerce.

	Jesus Christ, I feel ignorant.  I think I need a dictionary
	now.  Or an edumacation.