People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard

Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by jjoonathan on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:23PM (#17518307)

The descriptive work of he-who-shall-not-be-named is leagues ahead of his prescriptive work (not surprising -- fixing problems tends to be harder than finding them).

The problems he addresses still abound and it's really a pity we have culturally suppressed the vocabulary and arguments he put forward to talk about them.

So, my guess: serious.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by backpropaganda on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:38AM (#17520940)

Funny how when I replaced the big hyphenated word with the 4-letter name, it actually triggered an emotional response in me which made me dismiss the rest of your comment, even though I was fine with the comment without the substitution. Weird how human brains work.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by jjoonathan on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:24AM (#17523686)

Even crazier: I have the same emotional response to the substitution and I'm the one who wrote the comment.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by dimillian on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:53AM (#17521664)

So the crowd forbid to name Karl Marx here of what?

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by freeflight on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:20AM (#17521749)

Not the crown, but the Overton window.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by backpropaganda on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:08PM (#17525776)

Using certain names and terms on Reddit and Twitter (not sure about HN) does bring bots in who then try to influence the conversation with votes and propaganda comments. So J. K. Rowling made quite an accurate prediction about how society might interact with advanced technology (aka magic).

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