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@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ At time's end, the Christians promise---theme and variation---Resurrection and r These political and social materials, this kind of thought, woven back into the whole traditional memory-corpus of dramatic, fictional, religious works, permit us to see that a trans-disciplinary whole operated even in the ancient past\ld\ albeit using coded languages. These were preserved, by some, with consequences for the present. On the other hand, what was selectively forgotten and buried? We never get to hear the peasant's side of the story in the Joseph tale. The oppressed have no dynastic history. The concreteness, the mundanity of the past, has been generalized; its particularity eroded, just like the start-up equity put into a corporation. The information of the past shapes the information processing of the present. -The econometric predictions of this present\fnote{think of the Russian-American wheat deal of 1972--73, the decision to corner the grain market, extensive planning} uses, with minor variation, the Josephian scenario. In fact, to tell the story again, the disaster Joseph predicted was not a disaster of underproduction---but too many years of \e{over}production, with attendant depressed prices; requiring either a famine to be manufactured, or at least an \e{informational} famine created by cornering the market, leading to real hunger. Prices? Is this really in \booktitle{The Bible}? Joseph, after all, as Pharaoh's agent, sold the surplus grain on the world market during a world famine. New discourses inserted back into past events disrupt the holiness of the memory time-series, and question the legitimacy of modern thought-buildup; indeed, the legitimacy of all present-based\slash obsessed-with-past, the soft cause-effect linkages built into history.
\ No newline at end of file +The econometric predictions of this present\fnote{think of the Russian-American wheat deal of 1972--73, the decision to corner the grain market, extensive planning.} uses, with minor variation, the Josephian scenario. In fact, to tell the story again, the disaster Joseph predicted was not a disaster of underproduction---but too many years of \e{over}production, with attendant depressed prices; requiring either a famine to be manufactured, or at least an \e{informational} famine created by cornering the market, leading to real hunger. Prices? Is this really in \booktitle{The Bible}? Joseph, after all, as Pharaoh's agent, sold the surplus grain on the world market during a world famine. New discourses inserted back into past events disrupt the holiness of the memory time-series, and question the legitimacy of modern thought-buildup; indeed, the legitimacy of all present-based\slash obsessed-with-past, the soft cause-effect linkages built into history.
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