Joe has lost it. ‘Won’.
https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1372518167398977537
Guy before the pandemic on Oxford St ‘The end is nigh!’ Pandemic hits. ‘Now the debate is entirely on end is nigh terms. End is nigh won.’
Actually that analogy is not good enough because it does not capture the confusion of the normative with the positive.
Certainly there have been victories. Book contracts. Religious converts with many followers. Consultancies. Much £££. If that was the prize, then it was won.
You have to admire the singularity of purpose. The talent for communication. The dogged commitment to giving up actual empirical and theoretical enquiry to sustain the idea that the questions have been definitively answered.
Unless you are actually stupid, quelling those nagging doubts all the time would require monumental self control, like a Biblical literalist shutting out evidence for evolution.
You're also going to alienate yourself sufficiently that you won't be employable in most econ departments or publishable in their journals. That takes some bravery, saintly indifference, or confidence that you can generate £ through other means.
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