I’ve never seen a more pristine example of a straw man, let alone in the wild. Value is fundamental to what constitutes Marxist theory. It’s like claiming Garfield hates pasta. Even beyond the strawman, I’m reminded of this quote
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops” - Stephen Jay Gould
At which point he’s the OP, Nick Tyrone, is going to pivot to “Capitalism lifts people out of poverty” and “it’s not 0 sum” and “it’s not violent, only the state is violent because starvation is a baseline” so the beauty would be wasted on him.
Huh? What’s dipshitty about the quote? Seems cool to me. He’s just saying Einstein probably wasn’t super special and would-be Einsteins never got recognition because they were born too poor.
I get the sneaking suspicion that @RNAi@hexbear.net saw the last paragraph where I used a vague pronoun and thought the criticism was levied at Gould. Otherwise I’m willing and open to learn more about Gould.
I’ve never seen a more pristine example of a straw man, let alone in the wild. Value is fundamental to what constitutes Marxist theory. It’s like claiming Garfield hates pasta. Even beyond the strawman, I’m reminded of this quote
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops” - Stephen Jay Gould
At which point
he’sthe OP, Nick Tyrone, is going to pivot to “Capitalism lifts people out of poverty” and “it’s not 0 sum” and “it’s not violent, only the state is violent because starvation is a baseline” so the beauty would be wasted on him.Stephen J Gould was a dipshit? Aw dang it
Huh? What’s dipshitty about the quote? Seems cool to me. He’s just saying Einstein probably wasn’t super special and would-be Einsteins never got recognition because they were born too poor.
I get the sneaking suspicion that @RNAi@hexbear.net saw the last paragraph where I used a vague pronoun and thought the criticism was levied at Gould. Otherwise I’m willing and open to learn more about Gould.
@spectre@hexbear.net
Yeah probably something like that
This,
I always liked that quote from Gould, was afraid he nullified it with capitalist diarrhea propaganda
Is there an issue with the quote? Am I misreading?
I know it’s not that important, but this really bothers me because it’s not just not positive sum, entropy seems to imply that it’s negative sum.