By
Alan Crowe (Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 07:52:14 AM EST)
cyncicism,
economics,
disillusion (
all tags)
When I was young, 15 or 17, I made several attempts to read
the Economist Magazine in the school library. It
was nihilist, left-wing agit-prop. My self-image was as a
reasonable center-right person and I was put off, not least
because the magazines cynicism seemed so similar to the
teenage angst that I was actively rejecting.
That would be be around 1976. Now that I am nearly fifty I
know that the Economist magazine is a right wing part of the
establishment. The sophisticated reader can discern subtle
nuances, separating pro-market from pro-business, separating
those for whom "free markets" is a cloak and those for whom
it is a creed. Nevertheless one is left to wonder: how did my
young self get it so wrong?
Detailed justification of my teenage views inside, based on
September 12th-18th 2009 print edition of the Economist.
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