November 3, 2008
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Babylon
I like this guy, talking about the economic meltdown in terms of a water pump he got for US$30:
But as much as you will hear about bad lending practices and lack of oversight, those things are the occasion of the problem and not its cause.
To discover the cause you’d need to come with me to the Center of the Universe. That’s what we call the center of our garden because in a very real sense it is the center of our universe. I took someone visiting our farmstead there and showed them the pump perhaps hoping they would understand the lesson it had to offer. One investment of $30 and there would be a couple of centuries of water for the garden with just a little bit of effort, not much more than shaking hands with the pump really. This visitor regarded the pump for a while and then remarked, “You know, you could put a motor on that.”
I closed my eyes and sighed the sigh that comes unbidden when one unveils a profound mystery of the universe to someone who can only blink and stare. It was as if I had shown him the rarest rose of the garden and he’d said, “You know, you could paint that a different color.”
He’s been writing the ‘blog since 2005. He has two other ‘blogs, as well.
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