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Re:So much of academia is about connections and reputation l... by BanzaiCharge on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:18PM (#23199530)
The danger with arguing from first principles is that a lot of real-world failures sound pretty fantastic. Take communism, or the satirical "A Modest Proposal".
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Re:So much of academia is about connections and reputation l... by tibbetts on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:37PM (#23199656)
If you thought “A Modest Proposal” sounded pretty fantastic, you must have read a different essay by that title than I did. And saying that communism sounds good in theory is also a pretty superficial reading of Marx and others.
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