goddamn lunatic

One last bit of Mungeriana, from the CNBC final interview:

BECKY QUICK: What kind of things would you recognize that they– that they were doing wrong?

CHARLIE MUNGER: Oh. They had some crazy idea. For instance, my Latin teacher was maladjusted, but one who was a devoted follower of Sigmund Freud. And I recognized that Sigmund Freud was –when I first read him when I was in high school. And, of course, it was an odd little boy whose Latin teacher is teaching him Freud. But that was – she was peculiar and so was I. And, of course, when I read – I bought the complete writings of Sigmund Freud from the area library. It was one big book. And I went through it very laboriously. And I realized he was a goddamn lunatic. And so I decided I wasn’t gonna learn that from my Latin teacher. I had some very unusual teachers. The best teacher I had in my life was Lon Fuller. Well, he was the best contracts teacher in any law school. And contracts is the best subject in every law school, at least I think it is. Because it integrates so beautifully with the new doctrine of an economics that came along with Adam Smith and all those people.

I had Dall-E generate some images of boy Charlie Munger reading the complete works of Sigmund Freud:

Horrifying.


2 Comments on “goddamn lunatic”

  1. Daniel Greaney's avatar Daniel Greaney says:

    The complete works of Sigmund Freud runs into 30 or so volumes.

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  2. helytimes's avatar helytimes says:

    It’s possible the man’s memory is off!


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