What's It All About, alllFFFFIIEEEEEE?

A lot of people think we can spend our way out of this economic mousaka. They call themselves Keynesians, and if you're going to be totally honest with yourself they are probably right. Bailouts and monetary expansion and so on and so forth is the medicine they prescribe, and again they're probably right. The world would be a better place if we listened to them.

But that's not the point.

The point is no matter how "right" somebody is, no matter how "reasonable" their position is, the temptation to disagree for the sake of disagreeing is too much. At the end of the day the Direwolf knows nothing about economics, but he still has opinions. And so can you! Everybody can have an opinion and the best opinions, arguably the only ones worth having, are deeply flawed and contrary to popular opinion.

It goes right back to the alleged beginning. God said unto Adam and Eve you will live in blissful harmony and perfection. Your lives will be free from pain and suffering, you will have plenty, and love. Just. Don't. Eat. The. FORBIDDEN. Fruit.

It wasn't reasonable to eat the fruit. It wasn't the right thing to do. One would assume the prevailing opinion at the time would have been, "Let's do as we please and steer clear of the fruit." However the contrary, totally irrational, eat-the-fruit lobby carried the day.

We can draw a pretty direct line from the fruit eating debacle to what's going on today, and then use it to predict the future. People will always eat the fruit, and I don't care how right everybody else is; I'm going to eat my five pieces of fruit a day.