People don’t talk about them enough and the political winds blowing toward these things is astonishingly bad I’m the one getting the worst of my brain, not anyone else, and the facts will be true whether or not I say them out loud, so let’s say them out loud. Hey guys? Depressio...
My historical point here is that 1600-1800 saw in places like the Netherlands, England, and the British colonies in North America, with curious parallels in Japan, a massive up-valuation of temperance and prudence. And so the bourgeois societies of those places came to value precisely thrift....