• redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      You’re right, at that. I was thinking of dunks like this:

      Classical economy always loved to conceive social capital as a fixed magnitude of a fixed degree of efficiency. But this prejudice was first established as a dogma by the arch-Philistine, Jeremy Bentham, that insipid, pedantic, leather-tongued oracle of the ordinary bourgeois intelligence of the 19th century. Bentham is among philosophers what Martin Tupper is among poets. Both could only have been manufactured in England.

      Imagine if libs came along with wit like this. Unlikely, still, but is it worth the risk?

      (A: yes)