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Thursday, March 28. 2019

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From Christakis, the Yale Prof in our morning links



Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:43 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I ordered his book in Audio form earlier today.
#1 Texan99 on 2019-03-28 23:29 (Reply)
Excellent talk, and the previous link about his book is also good. As it is the NYT, you will notice that the words "left-wing," "liberal," or "progressive" do not occur anywhere in the article, nor are they even obliquely referred to. No marxism nor Theory neither, no, not none. I don't cite those as entire causes, but simply note that this would never be the case with anyone on the right. The NYT is trying to tie Christchurch to the European Right, for example, though one could easily make a stronger case for the European Left.

Christakis speaks about networks and cooperation being important drivers. I agree wholeheartedly. I wonder who it is that is destroying the networks and social cooperation of Western Civ at present?
#2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-04-01 17:15 (Reply)

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