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325 points for this nonsense? Oh, HN. From the title I expected something serious. I gave up halfway, having pigeonholed the pompous verbiage as a first cousin
by dash2 1y ago
325 points for this nonsense? Oh, HN.
From the title I expected something serious. I gave up halfway, having pigeonholed the pompous verbiage as a first cousin to Women Who Run With The Wolves. But really, the game was up when I read the phrase "late stage capitalism", which is the verbal equivalent of a plague bell, used by halfwits to warn us of their presence.
Friends, here's how to have an intellectually rich life: read serious authors. There's Montaigne out there. There's Orwell. After a while, you'll recognize good writing and thinking, and you won't waste your time on pap.
- toader 1y agoDo you consider Werner Sombart, and Ernest Mandel to be 'half wits' and unserious?
- dash2 1y agoI haven't read either, but if you mean that them using the phrase legitimates it, then that isn't so. Clever people have invented many phrases that later become stale or absurd. If nothing else, consider that both men are long dead, whilst capitalism's "late" stage continues unabated.