"There is a supply for every demand"
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A tidy sentence like "There is a supply for every demand" smuggles a whole worldview in under the guise of common sense. Florence Scovel Shinn wasn’t writing as an economist; she was a New Thought-era artist and metaphysical popularizer, and that matters. In her universe, "demand" isn’t market appetite, it’s intention: the internal decision that something is for you. "Supply" isn’t inventory, it’s the universe’s backroom warehouse, ready to produce the exact thing your mind authorizes.
The line works because it borrows the authority of capitalism while quietly rejecting its cruelty. In real markets, demand can be desperate and still go unmet; that’s the daily news. Shinn’s phrasing gives you the comfort of inevitability without the messy mechanics: no gatekeepers, no scarcity, no structural injustice, just a direct pipeline between desire and provision. It’s an empowerment spell dressed up as a law of nature.
The subtext is both consoling and disciplining. If supply is guaranteed, then lack starts to look like a failure of "demand" - you didn’t ask correctly, believe hard enough, align cleanly enough. That’s why the sentence endures in self-help culture: it flatters agency while outsourcing proof to faith. As an artist, Shinn also understands the seduction of a clean proposition. It’s a mantra with a rhyme-like balance, a closed loop that promises order in a world that rarely behaves.
The line works because it borrows the authority of capitalism while quietly rejecting its cruelty. In real markets, demand can be desperate and still go unmet; that’s the daily news. Shinn’s phrasing gives you the comfort of inevitability without the messy mechanics: no gatekeepers, no scarcity, no structural injustice, just a direct pipeline between desire and provision. It’s an empowerment spell dressed up as a law of nature.
The subtext is both consoling and disciplining. If supply is guaranteed, then lack starts to look like a failure of "demand" - you didn’t ask correctly, believe hard enough, align cleanly enough. That’s why the sentence endures in self-help culture: it flatters agency while outsourcing proof to faith. As an artist, Shinn also understands the seduction of a clean proposition. It’s a mantra with a rhyme-like balance, a closed loop that promises order in a world that rarely behaves.
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