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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who wrote (78753)3/1/2003 10:06:18 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
It seems to me that you are saying that having the hospital's attorney do your bypass or the airline marketing VP fly your 747 is OK. Acquiring deep and broad knowledge along with developing a keen ability to assess risks and benefits is a long and arduous task for a reason--because it is hard.

I'm not saying any such thing, and I have no idea how you arrived at that from what I wrote. What I said, was that some professionals become blind to content because it doesn't obey their forms. John does it all the time on this thread.

I think, as in science and business, the 'capitalistic' drive to be the Alpha wolf in every profession constantly presses for corrections and instability--in a word, evolution. This prevents the stasis you mentioned.

That is absolutely belied by experience. Academics don't get to be "Alpha wolf" by being nonconformist. They tend to be rather hostile to anything too different and contrary to the mainstream. Dr. Shirley Strum and her landmark baboon studies and male dominance theory are a good case in point. Closer to what I am arguing - professional philosophy's refusal to even acknowledge the existence of Ayn Rand's work because she wasn't a "professional philosopher." Didn't follow the forms, don't want to hear about it.

Derek
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