Reply #4: Kentuck, old bean, have you ever spent time in Manhattan? [View All]

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

I have. I even lived there for a time, but being a country boy to the marrow, I got the hell out. Just ain't me. Like living in a Human Habitrail, it is. I do applaud those who can do it. They are strong folks. Survivors made of the sternest stuff.

That said, Manhattan is something of an intellectual bell jar, sealed off from a lot of the realities of everything outside of it. It forms it's own memes, it's own realities and then assumes that said memes and realities apply to everywhere past either river that brackets the island. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I offer this because you can be sure that Goodfellow Friedman is a Manhattanite. At least for a significant portion of his life. He is only as good and knowledgeable as those he associates with. Perhaps he needs to get out more?

I can tell you that such a bell jar effect exists in any American seat of real power. Manhattan, Washington, LA...it all seems to apply.

I offer this only in some small explanation, not in criticism.