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To: ecommerceman who wrote (10702)9/12/2000 4:41:19 AM
From: Marty Lee  Read Replies (1) of 11417
 
George is genuine..

Just picked up my copy of TELECOSM
There's a great picture of George on the back flap. Nice big smile rather one of those those somber, serious-man looking photos. :)

So, George was "Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year" during the 70's? That puts him in good company. Norman Mailer picked up the same prize from the same sources: Slime magazine and NOW. The first is a meretricious rag which one stops taking seriously if over 18 years of age and the second is difficult to dissociate from a platform for misandrist agitprop. Should one ever have as many nice things to say about feminists as feminists do about men, that would be little or next to nothing...

So, George is a transcendental dreamer of the Christian kind? Religion can be a conversation stopper and George is pragmatically aware of it. If his politics and economics be bound to a religious ethos, how do his critics imagine they differ except only slightly in matter of degree and emphasis?

"The New Republic convincingly argued that Gilder's handle on macroeconomics was "more poetical than analytic," but the book became a best seller anyway."

But so what? The New Republic's anglophone fears were dominated by a so-called analytic tradition - one which prided itself in making philosophy look more like science and less like literature and politics. The last thing this tradition would want is to be impugned - hardly any more scientific itself. For Christ's sake, right George? :)

If George is a technocrat, he's a damned good one! He's not Bucky Fuller but he's ours at least. And we're proud of it!

Now, on to reading TELECOSM. Don't expect to be disappointed as George is genuine and has shown himself a man of vision approved in his own due diligence. His books and news letter don't attempt to hold his readers by the hand and insult their intelligence. Both are sincere attempts to stimulate our imaginations while communicating his; with a little philanthropy and social hope, and a few good "tips." :)

Go Gilder!
Marty
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