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Proves once again that being an expert in one field doesn't mean you have a slightest understanding in another.
by alexeiz 16y ago
Proves once again that being an expert in one field doesn't mean you have a slightest understanding in another.
- kstenerud 16y agoAgreed. Albert Einstein's political views were laughably naive, for example.
- logjam 16y agoOh really. Which views exactly do you find naïve? His views evolved considerably over time.
- kstenerud 16y agoAn example: "War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press." When considered against thousands of years of human history, documenting wars large and small, and the events leading up to them, such a view of the innate goodness of fellow man that is pure and would never wage war but for the corrupting influence of the elite, comes off as incredibly naive. When compared and contrasted with, for example, Machiavelli and his discourses on the first decade of Titus Livius, Einstein comes off like an episode of the Care Bears.
- Anechoic 16y agoWhile I don't disagree with this statement (I upvoted), it still happens all the time, including on this very site. It's just the nature of the beast.