"Why do bad ideas flourish in policy discourse, even though a few minutes of thought and research would show just how bad they are?
Why do they often become not just widely accepted but absolute orthodoxy, the things you have to believe in order to be a Very Serious Person?
I don’t have a full answer; self-interest is part of it but not, I think, the whole story"
"
if he'd stopped there ..but he doesn't
".. some bad ideas — like expansionary austerity — hurt even most of the elite."
by that he turns the human condition in all its complexity and contradictions
into a tragedy of willful ignorance pig headedness bloody mindedness etc etc
well not if it repeats itself over and over again
if indeed this looks to be all to obviously
1937 all over again
i'd search out the cui bono crowd
and see if they aren't well ...the decisive interest
the elite within the elite
