It seems that I have to raise my game: Brad DeLong manages to bring Friedrich Nietzsche into a discussion of the failure of macroeconomic policy.
Let’s see … there must be some way to invoke Wittgenstein here …
By the way, Brad’s essay is excellent.
Update: Apropos of nothing, but according to Rick Atkinson’s An Army At Dawn, during the final phase of the North African campaign, as U.S. soldiers broke through the German line, they chanted “Ist ve not der Soopermen/ Yah ve ist der Soopermen/ Der Sooper-sooper-duper-men!” (from memory, don’t have the book to hand.)
