Very well - but I've argued, and you haven't responded to the argument, that the bourgeoisie doing this behind closed scenes was better than the revolutionaries doing this openly. — Agustino
Just like I attribute the lack of genius in today's world to:
too much social pressure, commercialisation of sex, high levels of misinformation, too much comfort, too much counter culture. — Agustino
because the millions of recipients know what is happening — Bitter Crank
Real, bona fide geniuses are always rare (at least, that's a characteristic I like to apply to "genius". But even when they are born, they may not flower. Einstein also built on the foundations of previous thinking, previous discoveries, the essential pieces of which were available to him by way of his own education. Had Einstein been born 100 years earlier, he would almost certainly have not been able to come up with relativity and everything preceding it in one fell swoop. — Bitter Crank
That does not follow at all Agustino. Geniuses, or those so considered, are only so considered after their demise. You cannot possibly estimate a persons worth until after they are gone... That is why it is almost impossible to point out the geniuses of today or the very recent past. Moreover, the dark ages suffer very much to the lack of scholarship and lack or records that attend such a period, though the Muslim world did do a damn sight well... — Phil
Amazing thread — Πετροκότσυφας
Liberalism is more analogous to R&D , while Conservatism is more about long term production, based on long term proven claims. — wellwisher
This analogy doesn't fit. Scaffolding does not support the structure being built. Scaffolding is erected to enable the workers to stand safely next to the structure while they build, paint or renovate it.The analogy is in construction. You need a lot of scaffolding to help support some structures, so it looks self standing. However, it is only standing because of the scaffolding. — wellwisher
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