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Oh my, the alacrity! | 353 comments (353 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Why would you consider "rational and pragmatic" as exempt, maybe opposed to intellectual influence? Or to put it another way: do you consider intellectuals exempt of rationality, by any chance ? Now that would actually be quite interesting, and I would think long before contradicting you :)

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Sat May 23rd, 2009 at 05:17:38 PM EST
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No I'm just saying what Keynes says: many people who believe themselves to be nonideological pragmaticist are actually ideologists, they just don't notice it. I, for example, used to be like that. Maybe I still am?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun May 24th, 2009 at 04:13:54 AM EST
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