Tiger Talk - for all the legal tender funny money wallahs

Our very own Sudha Shenoy, illustrious daughter of the "Hero-and-Saint" Professor BR Shenoy - and I am quoting Peter, Lord Bauer's tribute to Shenoy here - the ONLY member of that infamous "Panel of Economists" assembled by Nehru to approve of his and that MORON-STATISTICIAN pc mahalanobis' grandiose "heavy industrialisation on the Soviet-model" Second Five-Year Plan who had the COURAGE of both KNOWLEDGE as well as CONVICTION to pen a "Note of Dissent" - well, Sudha Shenoy edited a collection of Hayek's writings AGAINST Keynes and his "legal tender funny money" - a collection very aptly titled:

A Tiger by the Tail

Well, I enjoyed as well as benefited from a long period of regular correspondence with Sudha Shenoy - and I have read the above book of hers - but, as I wrote quite a while back, I am NOT a hayekian - that I am very firmly a MISESIAN - so, for all these legal tender funny money wallahs, here is a little limerick I think they ought to PONDER, given the title of Sudha Shenoy's book above, which - considering the fact that she was not only Indian, but also KONKANI (her words!) and ought to "know" something about TIGERS - a title that indicates the DANGERS they face when they do what they do.



The limerick goes:

There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.

And the website where I was fortunate to find the limerick had this beautiful illustration accompanying it, which I am pasting below.

  

As I just said, I am a MISESIAN - who MUST have not only been CONTEMPTUOUS of hayek's inability to counter keynes while at the lse - as well as his REFUSAL to ever discuss EPISTEMOLOGICAL matters in the Science of Economics - for hayek's The Sensory Order is "psychology" - while the epistemological postulates regarding the "logical categories of the trading human mind" have to do with MIND - as SEPARATE from the BODY and its SENSORY DATA - which further implies that the so-called MIND-BODY PROBLEM that endless philosophers as well as psychologists have written endless tomes upon is NONSENSE-upon-STILTS - well, any of you keynesian legal tender funny money fuckers try and hang on trying to hassle ME - you better "realise" the DANGERS of whatever the FUCK you are trying with ME.






Now, it was during my Mangalore times that Sudha Shenoy and I began our correspondence - and Mangalore is the southern point of the Konkan Coast, which includes Goa, and extends further north beyond Goa and into Maharashtra - a region in which I have now spent so many happy years getting to not only "understand" their deeply ingrained "commercial culture" - a culture quite obviously rooted in millennia of free overseas trade - a culture that must have made Mangalore the sort of city it is, and Goa the sort of place it is - a culture that produced economists like the Shenoys - and it was Sudha who opined - like a TIGRESS:

Every Economics Department in the world could be shut down without having an ill-effect on the world of ideas.

I quoted Sudha Shenoy's opinion that in my column on Mangalore and "indian economists" - a column sub-titled "We No Longer Need Any Economists" - but I happen to be a BENGALI - although I have hardly ever lived in Bengal - but in my extensive wanderings over the decades I have travelled extensively in the SUNDERBANS - home to the ROYAL BENGAL TIGER - and was once fortunate to see one of these in the WILD.




To conclude, I remember a talk I once delivered during my Mangalore adventures - at the local YMCA - a talk titled:

"POLITICS: The ROOT of CORRUPTION"

I remember ending that talk - during which I used PowerPoint - with a slide showing one such ROYAL BENGAL TIGER - with a caption upon it saying:

THERE's A TIGER IN YOUR TOWN!

So, let this be a WARNING to anyone who attempts to drag me into either politics or corruption - and the two-go-together - and as for the FUCKED-UP INDIAN COPS - who fucked with me first during those years - and it was also then that this POLICE AGENT of a maternal parent GATECRASHED into my life and affairs - exactly as she then did in Pondicherry last year - as chronicled in this extract from a novel I had published earlier - well, I trust I do NOT need to SPELL OUT the severe consequences that will follow if you continue upon this disastrous path.


I have absolutely NO PROBLEMS with any "addictions" - and it is ON RECORD that I have declared that I shall NEVER GIVE UP my High Life - my DRUGS, my ALCOHOL, and MUCH MORE.


I am NOT a gandhian - and I HATE that tribe.


Do see that wonderful play Gandhi vs. Gandhi whenever you get a chance - of this mahatma and a son who turned against him and his tyrannies - and headed straight for The Local Bar!

"Father-of-the-Nation" indeed!

Part-and-parcel of the Great Myth of Legislators as the Founders of Republics that the Philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment DEMOLISHED.