As for the intellectuals of disaster capitalism, we must judge that they are sincere in their beliefs and ideology, but Milton Friedman's assumption seems to be that what is good for money is good for people, which, to my reading of history, has never been true.
First, I was trained to avoid any intellectual comprehension of disaster — dwelling on a potential danger, or imagining what might happen.
Because it's a recipe for political disaster — and intellectual sterility.
Austerity mania, it turns out, isn't just a disaster on intellectual and policy grounds; it has also turned into an ethical morass.
David Stockman, the intellectual behind the budgetary disaster of the 1980's, had worked as a baby sitter for the Moynihans in Cambridge in the late 1960's.
Intellectuals considered this a disaster.
And like theologians after the catastrophic 18th-century Lisbon earthquake, who saw the wages of sin in the disaster, many intellectuals didn't wait long to assert that this blowback was payback.
Amazing how these intellectual giants produced an unmitigated disaster!
It turned cancer into an intellectual adventure and made a disaster into something positive".
As any sort of intellectual exchange, the show was a disaster.
