Here is a fractured modernist tale, a pastiche of Horatio Alger. The title ‘Postal Worker’s Son Makes Good’; does that seem appropriate? GW, even in the face of a 38% fall in profits, managed to garner for himself and his fellow managers rather tidy bonuses. Does it inspire confidence that the Ethos of Capitalism stands in stark contrast to the cultivation of civic republican virtue? Can these two seemly antithetical concepts be mediated for the greater good of our common political/economic destiny? Or is the ‘philosophy’ of what ever the traffic will bear our guiding principle that dimly lights our path to the future?