RE AMERICAN FREE TRADE HAS BEEN BLIND TRADE mise en scene CARTOON THE CRUSHED AND THEREFORE INVISIBLE HAND

This seemed a nice conjunction of terms, and an image, given the utopian, and Whiggish, antecedents to the laissez faire process.


Picture the Adam Smithian 'invisible hand', as being now almost invisible, 


not only because we cannot see it in the real world, 


but also because its owner cannot, as a hand of a blind person.


One can imagine various cartoon possibilities.


One good one might be, say, a blind, eg blindfolded, Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, etc.,  very flat on the ground, his hand outstretched toward the viewer, crushed beneath the enormous bubble person or entity, could be Macaire, a sumo, my blobbal image, etc.,  crushing his torso only, from which his head and legs still protrude, and also crushing his now almost 'invisible' to us, reduced to two dimensional paper image, crushed hand.




The caption above:
The invisible hand


The caption below:
market forces at work.