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No, this is why: http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html
by asciilifeform 17y ago
No, this is why:
http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html
- anigbrowl 17y agoMinus the political connotations, I'd agree. Clinton was indeed a lawyer, but then so was Nixon. Carter came from an engineering background; one could argue that Reagan's shift to personality politics was an elevation of style over substance. So my point is not that his politics are wrong, but that they were of the moment and plenty of competing or complementary interpretations exist. We have painted ourselves into an unproductive corner with too much litigation and an over-emphasis on economic productivity where groundbreaking ideas which don't have meaningful analytics yet are considered too risky due to lack of quantifiability. One man's political effeteness is another's tyranny of the market.