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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (12098)	5/1/2007 1:38:48 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Big day for you Comrade, May Day. How's the MMGW scam going, you slowing up that nasty capitalism yet ?

To: Land Shark who wrote (12098)	5/1/2007 6:31:59 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"The "Tragedy of the Commons" has particular relevance in explaining behaviour in the fields of economics, evolutionary psychology, game theory and sociology." Yes, especially if you take other nonsense like Skinner seriously.. ..."There are certain conditions which the book requires of its readers: (a) Being out of focus. (b) Skimming. (c) Self-doubt. (d) The premise, when confronted with outrageous absurdity: "I don't get it, but he must have reasons for saying it." ...These conditions will bring the reader to miss the main ingredients of the book's epistemological method, which are: 1. Equivocation. 2. Substituting metaphors for proof, and examples for definitions. 3. Setting up and knocking down straw men. 4. Mentioning a given notion as controversial, following it up with two or three pages of irrelevant small talk, then mentioning it again and treating it as if it had been proved. 5. Raising valid questions (to indicate that the author is aware of them) and, by the same technique, leaving them unanswered. 6. Overtalking and overloading the reader's consciousness with overelaborate discussions of trivia, then smuggling in enormous essentials without discussion, as if they were incontrovertible. 7. Assuming an authoritarian tone to enunciate dogmatic absolutes-and the more dubious the absolute, the more authoritarian the tone. 8. Providing a brief summary at the end of each chapter, which summary includes, as if they had been proved, notions not included or barely mentioned in the chapter's text." sntp.net