I ought, therefore I can. ([info]malathion) wrote in [info]wurds,
@ 2008-05-01 01:04:00
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"In the long run, we're all dead."

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[info]malathion
2008-05-01 05:06 am UTC (link)
-- John Maynard Keynes.

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[info]sonofthelama
2008-05-01 05:14 am UTC (link)
Indeed.

On the subject of life and death, a friend of mine is fond of saying "They say nice things about you, put you in a hole, throw dirt in your face and go have lunch"

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[info]ground0messiah
2008-05-01 05:56 am UTC (link)
lame. lame lame.


"thing about life is, nobody gets out alive" is much better.

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[info]taryndaani
2008-05-01 06:04 am UTC (link)
Thoughts on life: It ends.

;)

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[info]rena_librarian
2008-05-06 01:53 am UTC (link)
Agreed.

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[info]taryndaani
2008-05-01 06:03 am UTC (link)
for some odd reason, this makes me smile... wow I am so morbid...

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[info]malathion
2008-05-01 06:19 am UTC (link)
I'm still waiting for an economist to come into this thread and put it in context. What he meant by it is really very different. ;)

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[info]aquandrian
2008-05-01 11:18 am UTC (link)
Oh come on, I wanna know now. :p

... what did he mean by it?

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[info]cimmonym
2008-05-01 02:09 pm UTC (link)
We just talked about Keynesian economics in my macro class, but I still can't quite relate this quote.

Help us out, be a pal!

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[info]taryndaani
2008-05-01 02:46 pm UTC (link)
lol well I'm as far from an economist as you can get, so I can't help you out. Sorry. =)

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[info]we_saw_icarus
2008-05-02 01:33 am UTC (link)
basically it means that we shouldn't care about what our economics policies do for future generations: it means that we should care about having a good economy today even if those decisions mean a bad economy tomorrow. and why? because in the long run, we're all dead. hence, we should only care about the short run.

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[info]taryndaani
2008-05-02 02:03 am UTC (link)
How like an economist ... dog-eat-dog, every-man-for-himself, bigest-bang-for-your-buck, screw you all, I want my $$$ NOW! view of life.

Deffinitely not smiling anymore... *sigh*

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[info]taryndaani
2008-05-02 02:03 am UTC (link)
that was referring to Keynes, by the way.

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[info]reticent_lass
2008-05-01 06:06 am UTC (link)
I just had this quote on an AP English practice test today... it's a good thing I'm good at English or the reminder would be killing me.

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[info]just_keep_still
2008-05-01 06:41 am UTC (link)
Yeup.
That's the best part of it :)

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[info]mrdeconstructor
2008-05-01 06:48 am UTC (link)
Your icon reminds me of a snippet from a song by Scraping Foetus off the Wheel:

Mass existence is the root of my problems.
Gotta choose between suicide and genocide.

(Guess you just had to be there... ;-))

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[info]monebaris
2008-05-01 10:42 am UTC (link)
Obviously stolen from Fight Club.

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[info]privacycat
2008-05-01 12:31 pm UTC (link)
This is spectacular.

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[info]vikingmetal
2008-05-01 03:05 pm UTC (link)
It's taken from the context of the economic standpoint that budgetary deficits can be a good thing for the economy. People argued that, in the long run, it would be a bad thing, and that's where he quipped, "In the long run, we're all dead."

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[info]amberghini
2008-05-01 03:51 pm UTC (link)
What a great icon. I hated that yeti.

And thank you for explaining that "economically." :)

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[info]bizzyjenkins
2008-05-02 02:37 am UTC (link)
I always thought it was a robot...

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[info]rena_librarian
2008-05-06 01:54 am UTC (link)
I took it to be a wolf.

Who knew MS Paint-quality graphics could render such ambiguity?

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[info]kareyu
2008-05-01 07:11 pm UTC (link)
and that is why death is too good for those we hate

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[info]madseason_20
2008-05-01 09:37 pm UTC (link)
And in the long run, we've all also lived.

I'm not too fond of these types of quotes, to be honest. Many people think of them as 'intricately true,' but they're just a pessimistic view to life. And there's enough going on without people having to talk about how we're all "essentially dead," or any variation thereof.

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[info]thenewleaves
2008-05-02 01:05 am UTC (link)
There's more to the quote: Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.


He was talking about inflation and how it could not stabilize on its own without government intervention. I'm no economist but I do remember that much about this quote. So it's really got nothing to do with life and death in the sense it's been presenting and I have to say that I dislike how much the meaning of the quote was skewed by the choice to cut it out of context - what's the point of expanding your knowledge of quotes and sayings if you're not going to include enough of the quote to understand the meaning behind it?

That's just my two cents anyway.

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[info]we_saw_icarus
2008-05-02 01:37 am UTC (link)
true that!

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[info]acup_oftea
2008-05-02 02:29 am UTC (link)
Im just happy that I saw the name and thought "this relates to deficit spending" before looking at the other comments.

I guess this could apply to global warming, when people talk about the long term consequences of our current actions.

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[info]inlooking_glass
2008-05-02 09:53 pm UTC (link)
this is true.

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[info]bigg_andy
2008-05-02 11:59 pm UTC (link)
this is only true if you define we as our individual bodies... if instead you think of yourself as a part of something bigger than in long run youre still alive through what your previous body did (and through the new fertilizer that body has become)


... of course even i am too selfish to believe that and fully agree with keynes' view of economics... thank you President Bush for that $600

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[info]joannaland
2008-06-10 03:58 am UTC (link)
i love this quote! i encountered it in my readings in political economy.

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