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Re:What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russia... by UncleOxidant on Friday January 03, 2025 @12:21PM (#42587520)
Sure, but the author is writing with his audience in mind. As I understand it, it started out as serialized stories in a periodical and was popular. If he wrote about something that was completely foreign to his audience it's not likely to have become popular. It really seems like he's having his characters take various positions on topics that were being discussed in the culture.
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Re:What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russia... by WalterBright on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:28PM (#42588187)
> was completely foreign to his audience

I suppose "The Lord of the Rings" is a true history of England?

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Re:What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russia... by poncho_romero on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:45PM (#42588336)
Perhaps you can appreciate the difference between The Lord of the Rings, which was self-consciously written to be a mythology for England, and The Brother's Karamazov which is set in the middle of the 19th century. We get it Walter, you hate socialism.
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Re:What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russia... by WalterBright on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:32PM (#42591796)
More accurately, I'm an advocate of freedom, yours as well as mine.
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Re:What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russia... by poncho_romero on Saturday January 04, 2025 @12:58PM (#42596419)
I appreciate that, and I'm sure we feel very similarly about the importance of individual freedoms. My snark has to do with the fact that I find your comments on political threads to be ideological and uninteresting, which is disappointing as someone who thinks highly of your work (and talks) on programming.
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Re:What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russia... by WalterBright on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:51PM (#42598555)
> ideological

It's evidence based, not faith based. Try me!

In contrast, I am not religious any longer because I could not find any evidence of its reality.

> and uninteresting

I can't help with that.

P.S. I'm giving a talk on code generators on Jan 16 at nwcpp.org. Come join in!

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