{"id":43945,"date":"2019-02-21T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43945"},"modified":"2019-02-21T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:17:54","slug":"but-we-need-the-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43945","title":{"rendered":"But We Need the Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epsilontheory.com\/but-we-need-the-eggs\/\">But We Need the Eggs<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.epsilontheory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/epsilon-theory-magical-thinking-september-1-2016-christopher-walken-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19001\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALVY SINGER: This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, \u201cDoc, my brother\u2019s crazy; he thinks he\u2019s a chicken.\u201d And the doctor says, \u201cWell, why don\u2019t you turn him in?\u201d The guy says, \u201cI would, but I need the eggs.\u201d Well, I guess that\u2019s pretty much how I feel about relationships; y\u2019know, they\u2019re totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd \u2026 but, I guess we keep going through it because most of us \u2026 need the eggs.&nbsp;<strong>Annie Hall (1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realize that we must un-person Woody Allen today, but&nbsp;<em>Annie Hall<\/em>&nbsp;is a great movie regardless. That\u2019s Duane Hall in the picture above, Annie\u2019s brother, as he drives Alvy and Annie to the airport after confessing to Alvy that his secret fantasy is to slam the car into the oncoming headlights. No one does crazy better than Christopher Walken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We\u2019re all passengers in the backseat of the State-driven car, and we all suspect that our drivers might be high-functioning lunatics, and we\u2019re all terrified about what they might do next.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But we need the eggs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need a stock market that only goes up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to consume more healthcare. We need to consume more education. We need to consume more travel. We need to consume more Netflix on more devices. We need to consume more social media. We need to consume more \u201cexperiences\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we need the credit to do all of that NOW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was thinking about that&nbsp;<em>Annie Hall<\/em>&nbsp;scene a lot in the past week, what with the Green New Deal \u2122 and the Modern Monetary Theory \u2122 proposals in the news, replacing the Tax Cuts \u2122 and Supply-Side Economic Theory \u2122 of just last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If there\u2019s one oldie-but-goodie ET note I\u2019d want everyone to read, it\u2019s&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epsilontheory.com\/magical-thinking\/\"><strong>Magical Thinking<\/strong><\/a><strong>, published in September 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But We Need the Eggs ALVY SINGER: This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, \u201cDoc, my brother\u2019s crazy; he thinks he\u2019s a chicken.\u201d And the doctor says, \u201cWell, why don\u2019t you turn him in?\u201d The guy says, \u201cI would, but I need the eggs.\u201d Well, I guess that\u2019s pretty much how I feel about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10321,17970],"class_list":["post-43945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-ben-hunt","tag-modern-monetary-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43946,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions\/43946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}