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Currently reading intellectuals and society by Tom Sowell
Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:04 pm
I’ve never heard anyone articulate with such precision the motivation and attitude of the ruling class like this guy. If every conservative, or even anybody who truly loves this country would read this book, this country would be a much different place.
He might be the greatest economic, political and social thinker in American history. Yet never is he mentioned during black history month nor in any conversation I’ve ever heard of about influential black Americans by anyone on the left.
He might be the greatest economic, political and social thinker in American history. Yet never is he mentioned during black history month nor in any conversation I’ve ever heard of about influential black Americans by anyone on the left.
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Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:10 pm to Masterag
Don't stop reading him. I've digested probably 13 or 14.
We homeschool and if our space was bigger I'd hang a picture of him on the wall.
I don't always agree but I can appreciate how much thought he's put into his writings.
Eta. His book Basic economics and his chapter on the real history of slavery from Black Rednecks and White Liberals" should be in every high school.
We homeschool and if our space was bigger I'd hang a picture of him on the wall.
I don't always agree but I can appreciate how much thought he's put into his writings.
Eta. His book Basic economics and his chapter on the real history of slavery from Black Rednecks and White Liberals" should be in every high school.
This post was edited on 9/24/22 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:33 pm to Masterag
He’s a helluva guy, and someone I’ve admired for about 40 years, but “greatest economic, political and social thinker in American history” is over the top. Alexander Hamilton, for example?
Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:44 pm to Masterag
One of my favorite writers.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:48 pm to Masterag
Sowell single-handedly turn me from a borderline socialist to a right winger.
Now I'm in ancap, but Sowell got me on the road to asking the right questions and understanding why the "unconstrained" view of society is nuts.
Now I'm in ancap, but Sowell got me on the road to asking the right questions and understanding why the "unconstrained" view of society is nuts.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:59 pm to Penrod
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Alexander Hamilton, for example?
I don’t know the mind of Hamilton well enough to make a well reasoned argument, but the fact that there is a broadway play name after him and he has become a cult darling of the left makes me disagree with you on a surface level.
The left would never, at any point in history, make a play about Tom Sowell.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 5:59 pm to Masterag
One of the all time greats
Posted on 9/24/22 at 6:10 pm to Masterag
Brilliant thinker.
I agree 100% with your post.
I agree 100% with your post.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 6:20 pm to Masterag
Knowledge and Decisions made me a better thinker. That’s not saying much, but no other author did so much with so little.
Pick up any book of his. You’re going to get crystal clear reasoning, supported by evidence, written in a way that changes your goddamn life.
Pick up any book of his. You’re going to get crystal clear reasoning, supported by evidence, written in a way that changes your goddamn life.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 6:20 pm to Masterag
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The left would never, at any point in history, make a play about Tom Sowell.
Nor would they debate him.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 6:25 pm to Penrod
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but “greatest economic, political and social thinker in American history” is over the top. Alexander Hamilton, for example?
Stop. That’s retarded. It’s Thomas Sowell and its not even close.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 6:28 pm to Willie Stroker
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Nor would they debate him.
They used to. On national TV. There are clips on Youtube.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 6:40 pm to Penrod
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Alexander Hamilton, for example?
Braintrust behind the fed. No thanks. Not saying he didn’t have other brilliant ideas but Fed is one of the worst inventions in US history.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 6:59 pm to Penrod
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Alexander Hamilton, for example?
without a Broadway play, you’d barely know who he is. the only positive thing he ever did was helping create the conditions for the federal government to absorb states revolutionary debt.
which of course, laid the groundwork for the federal reserve. which doubly fricked us. insofacto, we’d be better off today if he had kept his faggy arse in the Caribbean
eta-Washington could’ve opened his own letters in camp. don’t you dare come back with war hero bullshite
This post was edited on 9/24/22 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 9/24/22 at 7:24 pm to Masterag
The Road to Serfdom - Freidrich Hayek
Posted on 9/24/22 at 7:41 pm to WinnPtiger
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without a Broadway play, you’d barely know who he is. the only positive thing he ever did was helping create the conditions for the federal government to absorb states revolutionary debt.
Federalist Papers?
Posted on 9/24/22 at 7:45 pm to Penrod
quote:Agreed.
He’s a helluva guy, and someone I’ve admired for about 40 years, but “greatest economic, political and social thinker in American history” is over the top. Alexander Hamilton, for example?
I would describe him as one of the most-effective POPULAR and ACCESSIBLE political thinkers of the generation.
This post was edited on 9/24/22 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 9/24/22 at 7:48 pm to Masterag
quote:That is a damned silly metric for determining who is the “greatest economic, political and social thinker in American history.”
The left would never, at any point in history, make a play about Tom Sowell.
Posted on 9/24/22 at 7:51 pm to WinnPtiger
quote:Anyone who was unfamiliar with Hamilton prior to a stupid Broadway production is simply too damned stupid and uninformed to be taken seriously.
without a Broadway play, you’d barely know who he is
Posted on 9/24/22 at 8:07 pm to AggieHank86
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That is a damned silly metric for determining who is the “greatest economic, political and social thinker in American history.”
It’s actually my metric for determining which of the two choices presented is the greater thinker.
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