He called this aesthetic ideal "surrealist," but, in a culture radically revamped by the ascendancy of mercantile values, to ask that images be jarring, clamorous, eye-opening seems like elementary realism or good business sense.
Mercantile capitalist societies profess values that their own appetites destroy; calls for public morality come from the same people who use prostitutes.
The mad were lumped in with the poor and indigent as a basic threat to the social values on which a mercantile economy rested.
At the same time, the work of Friends of the High Line has drawn attention to the value of preserving reminders of the city's mercantile past.
"Ecuador will not accept pressures or threats from anyone, and it does not traffic in its values or allow them to be subjugated to mercantile interests," said government spokesman Fernando Alvarado.
Vaes Dothrak, their city, is not unlike Karakorum, a city that combined the values of nomadic life tents, open spaces, herds with the mercantile role of a capital city of a major political power.
But these people — small shopkeepers, the clergy, and the rest of the mercantile and professional classes — were, after all, simply other Parisians who valued their lives and their traditions.
Henry Goodman National Theatre, 1999 It's important to understand that the play is set in a mercantile environment, hence all the issues it raises about money and what is of value in life.
Based on closing prices Tuesday, ICE valued its offer at $211.55 a CBOT share, a 10.2percentt premium to the mercantile exchange's proposal of $191.98 a share.
