Hi Sarah, I liked your points about statism, but given the rise of state capitalism (seems – though I need to investigate – as different from mutualised and cooperative business as standard PLC practices are), and the growing knowledge that when it’s business v. states, states win every time, I think I might cede a little bit to Goldberg and call it something else – sadly (‘state prudence’?) there is no term I can use with a straight face.
On carnivorous tastes – that’s no crime, I do too, although I try to follow a vegan diet (and mostly succeed). I recommend reading Jonathan Safran Foer for a non-accusatory, reluctantly sensational, and not hyper-rational, account of the lives and deaths of farmed animals (as well as the public health and environmental implications).
Going to read your more recent post on bad influences now.