the reality is that anybody anywhere in the anglosphere who has studied the issue formally in any abstraction would know that it was settled british law to let the french settlers keep their culture and any dickhead or asshole british administrators trying to force english culture on the french would have actually probably gone to jail. it's not exactly common knowledge, but it's not exactly esoteric wisdom, either.

the reality is that while carney likes to cite rudimentary sources like thucydides (i read that in first year classics, too. greek civ 101.) in a pretentious way that is intended to make him look smarter than the average bear and smarter than he actually is, any actually educated person would realize that the two speeches, at davos and in quebec, actually both demonstrate deep levels of ignorance regarding the issues he's actually dealing with today, which are not homo economicus.

the reality is that if you were listening to carney speak carefully, and you actually understood what he said, you know he mostly made a fool of himself. the reality is he's been continually doing that for well over a year. he sounds smart, if you aren't, but what he actually is is overwhelmingly pretentious. he's actually continually thoroughly demonstrating that he's in way over his head and has no idea what he's doing or what he's talking about.

there's been a lot of attempt to study the way that economists think because it seems to be drastically different than the way almost everybody else thinks. the homo economicus syndrome is a manifestation of sociopathy in the form of a personality disorder. mark carney would seem to be a prime example in demonstrating the sociopathic symptoms of homo economicus syndrome, which uniquely presents in economists.

i have in the past suggested watching the corporation to understand mark carney.