Colonization of time

Monte Davis modavis at bellatlantic.net
Fri Aug 8 04:43:26 CDT 1997


>> No, to explain the continuity between existing institutions and
slavery is to show how close we are sailing to the wind.

I recognize the continuum you describe. My intent was to warn against
collapsing it into the kind of vivid, reductionist trope -- "Commerce is
merely another form of slavery" -- that is candy to [we] literary
intellectuals.
 
-Monte <neither entirely free, nor entirely rational, nor a purely economic
actor>




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