Q&A: Jesse's Café Américain
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By An anonymous blogging site with a pleasant relaxed feel ("an oasis of civility in an increasingly uncivil world", the site includes images from the Café's signature dishes in the left margin), wry humour and a global readership. Jesse has a strong interest in reining in the banks and reforming economics and incorporates some stunning graphs into his blog posts. However in a a recent, somewhat resigned post, he wrote: "I do not think the US is ready to insist on serious reform. It will take another crisis. The anti-regulatory slogans are too effectively ingrained in the public psyche. And self-deception is a powerfully addictive state of mind. Especially for those whose expansive lifestyles depend on it."
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What inspired you to first start blogging?
In the boom and bust of the turn of the century, I saw quite a few good and decent people lose their jobs and their life savings. I saw a resurgence of financial and political bad behaviour that the world has not seen since the 1930's. I saw a growing ugliness and callousness towards individuals that is the very heart of darkness and the ‘sickness unto death.'
How can one see such things and remain silent?
What's your most controversial blog post?
I try not to be controversial, because one can get caught up in that sort of thing, in the pursuit of pageviews for their own sake. If you have a worthwhile message, it does not serve to write it on a brick and shove it in the other fellow's face. But these days just speaking about things as they are, and exposing the madness for what it is can sometimes inspire controversy. And given the current trajectory of things, I suppose that most controversial post is yet to come. And I dread it.
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