no intervention precludes the possibility we might just have a heart attack and die, so really it’s not worth investigating heart healthy diets? the Keynes / Polanyi tradition makes pretty specific claims about particular kinds of errors we can avoid. 1/

even if 1000 years of peace and prosperity were to result from a more resilient social democratic turn than the last one, this too will pass, sure. but i’d go for that 1000 year moment anyway, wouldn’t write it off as nbd. /fin