Are there people you admire but don't like to talk to because you don't like your side of the conversation whenever the two of you get together? I really notice it as a podcaster. There are some interviewees with whom I fall into an easy conversational vibe and the hour flies by. Other conversational partners are like my counterpart in a duel, but
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Yup. I started to realize how malleable our personalities were when I began my dive into advertising. I really hate ads, for example, not because I merely find them irritating; I find them irritating because many of them work, and work long before I think they've had any effect. Were I some individual in the Randian tradition, I would be able to select and choose my opinions without worry of contamination by outside pressures and competition to my cognition.
When Steve Keen and Yves Smith outlined the rise of neoclassical economics and how it depended upon furthering the myth of Homo economicus, wow! We, according to papers outlining how the theories work, are perfect producers of goods and perfectly-well-informed consumers, and this symmetry of information destroys any advantage one may have ( ... )
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