Louis de Saussure blog

One side of the world says that Greece is recovering, that the country is on the right track towards competitiveness, that if the power changes hands, i.e. if Syriza comes to power, it will be the full catastrophe with the country exiting the Eurozone and total bankruptcy. This is the message delivered, of course, by the present Prime Minister of Greece, Samaras, and his co-PM Venizelos. There is nothing surprising here: after all, they are in power, they have applied the economic policies which have led the country in its present situation, and they represent the two political parties who have managed the country for decades and decades, in the end leading it where it stands now. With a little nuance however: now, the power has moved rightwards and has serious right-wing accointances: notably (but among others) the Secretary of State to Development and Merchant Navy appointed in 2011 A. Georgiadis author of Jews: The entire truth , an antisemitic pamphlet paying tribute to Hitle...

L'une des organisations qui promeut le NON à l'abolition des forfaits fiscaux a pour nom SWISS RESPECT.  Démarcher des gens riches à l'étranger pour qu'ils nous fassent l'honneur de venir payer des impôts chez nous à hauteur moindre que nous ne paierions nous-mêmes à fortune et revenus égaux a quelque chose d'assez éloigné du respect de soi-même, me semble-t-il.  On est plutôt dans une sorte de servilité quémandeuse et somme toute assez répugnante, puisque qu'elle a aussi pour effet une captation fiscale aux dépens de pays étrangers logiquement furieux. Je n'avais pas d'idée très précise sur l'abolition des forfaits fiscaux, mais en y réfléchissant simplement,  ils sont tout bêtement indéfendables. On va perdre de l'argent? Ah ben oui on va perdre un peu d'argent, c'est possible, on en perd, on en gagne. On en a perdu autrement plus avec les résultats de l'incompétence de certains des acteurs de l'ultra-libéralisme qui ...

I just realized something trivial: austerity measures in Europe, which destroys whole societies and give death to lots of persons, are set up for an alleged expected result in better economy (despite the repeated warnings by almost all what universities count in economists) and in this sense, this policy is actually somehow similar to previously known policies driven by the idea that one can destroy humans for the sake of a cause of higher importance imagined by someone or a group of people and supporting their economic interests. I think it's part of what totalitarianism is. 

Here's a quotation I've just read; it's been displayed yesterday on the FB page of the World Economic Forum. It's a quotation from the national leader of one of the most rapidly growing economies in the world: Taken from the World Economic Forum website see here for original webpage It is taken from a discussion which can be watched here ; I did not watch it: what I find interesting is that the Word Economic Forum takes this sentence as a self-standing and inspiring quotation enough to be landmarked and distributed over Facebook as carrying an inspiring message. Such sentences are, in fact, dangerous . They have a fuzzy meaning, but nonetheless presuppose a vision of humanity, an ideology, which happens to be seriously problematic. I will not discuss the many problems with this sentence, such as "what is creative economy "but focus on the core message, which is about potential . Sentences like this one carry irrationality, desires, enthusiasm. The...

What I like so much with people more intelligent than me is that they can find a sentence of mine clever because they discover in it some intelligent idea that I was unaware of myself.