Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes:

What would it mean for a nation’s economy to be authentically free and fair, so that all citizens can get what they deserve? The true, logical, satisfying, and kind answer to that question is presented in this new issue of TRO. Also explained in it: what do matters very much in the headlines these days say about ethics, including about how we need to see people? You’ll know much better what real prosperity is, for a nation and one’s own life, through reading “Money, Justice, & Relation,” a most timely, relevant issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known!

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

We begin to serialize here a lecture Eli Siegel gave in November 1970: Economics Is Diverse. It is one of his many Goodbye Profit System talks—a landmark series begun in May of that year. And what Mr. Siegel, as historian, explained then, the ensuing years have ratified. He showed that a way of economics based on contempt for people had reached the point in history at which it could no longer succeed as it had seemed to do in earlier years and centuries.

Aesthetic Realism is philosophy, and is not political. It is ethics, and it is aesthetics. What’s central to both ethics and aesthetics is described in this Aesthetic Realism principle: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

For example, big opposites in the life of everyone are freedom and that exactitude which is justice. We want to do as we please, but unless the freedom of doing what we please is also our being just to other things and people, the way we’re “free” will make us ashamed—and also mean—and also inefficient. That is true too about a way of economics. And Mr. Siegel showed that something called “free enterprise,” in order to be rightly free, and efficient, had to be justice too, good will too. He wrote: “Perhaps then we should change a well-known term to Free-and-Accurate Enterprise; or, perhaps, Free-and-Just Enterprise; or, even, Free-and-Beautiful Enterprise” (Hail, American Development, p. 131)….Read more