For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair, for foul is useful,and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight.
Too funny cuz I was thinking isn’t that Keynes long dead? I thought I was misremembering. Whew!
Your paraphrase matches what he said in 1931:
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair, for foul is useful,and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight.
H uh oh knew he was a snake when you took him in!