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asocher is wrong. Pinker commonly misrepresents Lakoff's views because he believes (as said in The Blank Slate) in the tragic vision of Godwin and, recently, Sowell. To say that free and unfettered markets is one thing, but to defend a Leviathan and say that poverty has nothing to do with crime, and then say the opposite, and then blame everything on Marx is quite silly.
The rational actor theory is dead and one would think that this would lead Pinker to give it up, considering his views on evo-psych.
In short, Pinker has legitimate gripes against other scientists and theories, but he slights them in order to argue against them. Just look at his silly views on Chomsky! He actually says that saying that humans have a "species character" not to be attached to a machine is against evo-psych, when in fact evo-psych shows that humans have all sorts of species wide characteristics! one of which is sentient freedom!
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Lewis Lapham is the preeminent essayists revealing the corrupt folly of the American democratic masquerade. If you read his Harper's copy you will assuredly love any of his volumes. But be warned: any sanctimonius notions you have for any candidate or party might make you burn with ire for Lapham's trenchant critiques of the political celebrity cults. But you will also find that he vilifies the same narcissistic politicians you do as well. Noone is exempt from his sharp and witty pen.
In this volume the corruption is put under a "klieg light," and the reader is made such a witness that only the most cement-headed or tilted partisan hack may come away unjaded. And not since the peak years of Gore Vidal have we seen the scrutiny of the rational mind expose, in blinding light, the empty cynical manipulation of the establishment.
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Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff
arthur sanford, October 19, 2006
asocher is wrong. Pinker commonly misrepresents Lakoff's views because he believes (as said in The Blank Slate) in the tragic vision of Godwin and, recently, Sowell. To say that free and unfettered markets is one thing, but to defend a Leviathan and say that poverty has nothing to do with crime, and then say the opposite, and then blame everything on Marx is quite silly.The rational actor theory is dead and one would think that this would lead Pinker to give it up, considering his views on evo-psych.
In short, Pinker has legitimate gripes against other scientists and theories, but he slights them in order to argue against them. Just look at his silly views on Chomsky! He actually says that saying that humans have a "species character" not to be attached to a machine is against evo-psych, when in fact evo-psych shows that humans have all sorts of species wide characteristics! one of which is sentient freedom!
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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration by Lewis Lapham
arthur sanford, October 12, 2006
Lewis Lapham is the preeminent essayists revealing the corrupt folly of the American democratic masquerade. If you read his Harper's copy you will assuredly love any of his volumes. But be warned: any sanctimonius notions you have for any candidate or party might make you burn with ire for Lapham's trenchant critiques of the political celebrity cults. But you will also find that he vilifies the same narcissistic politicians you do as well. Noone is exempt from his sharp and witty pen.In this volume the corruption is put under a "klieg light," and the reader is made such a witness that only the most cement-headed or tilted partisan hack may come away unjaded. And not since the peak years of Gore Vidal have we seen the scrutiny of the rational mind expose, in blinding light, the empty cynical manipulation of the establishment.
(2 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)