Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
by protomyth on Saturday November 10, 2018 @04:45PM
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> Granted, but even broken clocks are right twice a day.
I doubt most Christians think the bible is a broken clock
> Just because someone wrote a pre-scientific text which, today, supports antiauthoritarianism ... does not mean that antiauthoritarianism lacks its many other merits.
Most of our culture and philosophy comes from pre-scientific texts. Authoritarianism didn't need science and the ability to stop certain people from participating in commerce doesn't require computers.
> (Not to mention how even some Christians think that Revelation is the writings of a hallucinating madman.)
A small number, while other groups have different interpretations of what the text means or how literal it is.
I doubt most Christians think the bible is a broken clock
> Just because someone wrote a pre-scientific text which, today, supports antiauthoritarianism ... does not mean that antiauthoritarianism lacks its many other merits.
Most of our culture and philosophy comes from pre-scientific texts. Authoritarianism didn't need science and the ability to stop certain people from participating in commerce doesn't require computers.
> (Not to mention how even some Christians think that Revelation is the writings of a hallucinating madman.)
A small number, while other groups have different interpretations of what the text means or how literal it is.