I was just hoping you might give me some
insight into the evolution of the marked economy in the Southern colonies.
My contention is that eh, prior to the revolutionary war
the economic modalities, especially in the Southern colonies, could most aptly be characterized
as agrarian pre-capital...
- One second.. alright..
Of course that´s your contention. You´re a first year grad student, you just got finished reading
some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison, probably.
You´re gonna be convinced of that ´till next month when you get to James Lemon,
then you´re gonna be talking about how the economy in Virginia and Pennsylvania were
entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740.
That´s gonna last until next year, you´re gonna be in here regurgitatin´ Gordon Wood.
Talking about you know, the pre-Revolutionary Utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.
As a matter of fact, I won´t because Wood drastically
underestimate the impact of social-
Wood drastically underestimate the impact of social distinction predicated upon wealth
especially inherited wealth? You got that from Vickers.
Work in Essex County, page 98, right?
Yeah, I read that too.
Are you going to plagiarize the whole thing for us? Or do you have any thoughts that... of your own
on this matter?
Or do you - is that your thing? You come into a bar,
you read some obscure passage and the pretend that you, you.. pawn it off as your own idea
just to impress some girls and embarrass my friend?
See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years
you´re gonna start doing some thinking on your own,
and you´re going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life:
one, don´t do that, and two, you dropped
the hundred and fifty grand on a fucking education you
could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at a public library.
Yeah, but I will have a degree.
And you´ll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.
Yeah, maybe. Eh, but at least I won´t be unoriginal.
But I mean, if you have a problem with that, you and me
can just step outside and we could figure it out.
No man, there´s no problem.
It´s cool.
It´s cool?
Yeah.
Cool
You´re fucking damn right, it´s cool.
How do ya like me now?
My boy´s wicked smart.
