Paul Steer
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I appreciated both formats: shorter sections posted each day together with the full article posted at the end of the week. In the same way that this site discusses the velocity of currency as an important determinant of shared prosperity, I would suggest that a similar, ‘prosperity of ideas’ is supported when a longish article such as Nicole’s is posted in shorter chunks. It gives busy people something to read and reflect upon at a certain point during their day, and makes it more likely that they’ll return for the next installment tomorrow.
I believe Raúl’s use of the Gustave Doré The Ninth Circle of Hell (Treachery) engraving is particularly apt, for two reasons primarily: 1) Dante, having descended unto the very pit of hell, travels not alone, but is accompanied by his guide, mentor, protector and Roman antecedent, the poet Virgil. 2) Having descended to the very bottom of the pit, Dante and Virgil observe the condemned not afflicted with ‘fire and brimstone’, but with their heads trapped permanently in ice. In other words, their intellectual function, supposedly the highest function of humans, is literally frozen — unable to save or free these poor devils from their hellish fate.
Maybe it’s time for Stoneleigh and Ilargi to contemplate a reiteration of “The Inferno”, and to retell the never ending story of leverage/deleverage, inflation/deflation, trust/mistrust, solution/no-solution space in the context of these all-too-modern times?
