The subject line is Eric Raymond's title of an entry at http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2003_07_27_armedndangerous_archive.html
I don't read a lot of Raymond, and don't consider myself a libertarian of his stripe, but a somwhat out-of-context quote I enjoyed from this article: """ There are some books so bad, but so plausible and influential, that periodically trashing them in public is almost an obligation. The really classic stinkeroos of this kind, like Karl Marx's Das Kapital, exert a weird kind of seduction on otherwise intelligent people long after their factual basis has been completely exploded. """ I don't think it possible to separate the special role that history held for the intellectual in Marxism, and the tendencies of those who considered themselves intellectuals to give his thinking undue weight. I think the same is true with Kayianism and the geek. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
