Five more Plist-related 'finds' while not looking

[Richard Fiero]

Mark Kohut wrote:
>AtD: Lew realizes that everything is the way it is:
>"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head 
>back and laugh at the sky."
>~Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
>
>  DFW also taught Thomas Harris's THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS fairly 
> regularly: http://is.gd/a8z7E
>
>ongoing echo of car scene at end of IV..another example of 
>self-organizing 'anarchism' in the world
>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11thu4.html?ref=opinion
  . . .
There is no guarantee that self-organizing anarchy will reach an 
optimum state.  There may be several points of equilibrium which are 
sub-optimal.  The claim of the free marketers and neoclassical 
economists is that the greatest good is achieved by all of us 
rational economic actors maximizing our individual utility functions 
in Pareto optimality.
If four anarchists met driving from four different directions at a 
four-way stop, all of them would have to get out of their cars and 
attempt to reach a consensus (for DFW that might be AA's group 
consciousness). Without a consensus, no one can move.
The four-way stop protocol sounds like Evolutionary Economists got 
all the stakeholders together and didn't let them out of the room 
until a workable solution was hammered out.
In my opinion if the four drivers were Libertarians the most 
expensive car would go first.