The New Yorker, 2012-03-05 +

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"Magic Mountain" / Nick Paumgarten
__ "You don't understand your own interests until you encounter others with other interests. This is the foundation of enlightened self-interest."


"The former I.M.F. chief’s continuing fall brings to mind Michel Houellebecq’s gloomy, obsessive novel of more than a decade ago, “The Elementary Particles,” with its insistence that the neo-liberal model of material acquisitiveness would lead in the end only to nihilistic sexual compulsion. At the time, Houellebecq seemed pettish; he now seems poetically prescient.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/05/07/120507taco_talk_gopnik#ixzz26ao2iKqg

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