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My other favorite Sowell: "Intellect is not wisdom." My hope is that Sowell's work will see a groundswell of support and he'll finally be appreciated for what h
by brodouevencode 5y ago
My other favorite Sowell: "Intellect is not wisdom." My hope is that Sowell's work will see a groundswell of support and he'll finally be appreciated for what he has contributed. My fear is that we won't be on this earth when it happens.
- leephillips 5y agoThen one of his other famous quotes will apply: “there are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously.”
- blacktriangle 5y agoHilariously from the pov of this forum, Sowell is pretty much a hero of the right wing, having been formally trained as a Marxist at UofChicago only to reason his way out of that position back to sanity and then make a career of trying to educate the rest of the world to do the same.
- TMWNN 5y ago>Hilariously from the pov of this forum, Sowell is pretty much a hero of the right wing, having been formally trained as a Marxist at UofChicago only to reason his way out of that position back to sanity and then make a career of trying to educate the rest of the world to do the same. A big contributor to said reasoning out was his observing the antics of late-1960s black Cornell students (mostly admitted via affirmative action and, Sowell said, unqualified for the university's rigors), their takeover of university buildings, and their justifying doing so by claiming various outrages against themselves that were foreign to the day-to-day life that Sowell, a fellow Cornellian and Ithaca resident, experienced.
- native_samples 5y agoSowell is truly great. His theory of conflicting visions was the first time I felt I truly understood the deep nature of political disagreement.