[p2p-research] john pilger on the greeks

[Ryan Lanham]

No I read it completely.  Do you know the story?  He was the one person who
acted honourably in the whole affair and almost single handedly stopped the
banking crisis when Northern Rock fell.  By the way, he immediately resigned
when he was criticized by the state.  He was non-executive and still waded
in up to his neck to save the firm and the system.

In addition to that, he's written two or three books on the evolution of
cultural and social norms that top biologists I know regularly pass on to
their graduate students.

He is an economic and social conservative to be sure.  Many of his ideas and
arguments are outlandish and unsupportable (he was, for instance, an early
defender of Bjorn Lomborg.)

Intellectually, he's remarkably courageous, he's shown himself to be a man
of convictions and swift action, and is unafraid of offending those on "his
side."  As a conservative, he is an outspoken atheist often seen speaking
beside and in support of Richard Dawkins.

Try him out, I think you'll be favourably impressed.

Ryan




On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:57 PM, j.martin.pedersen <
m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Oh yes, I know. I think you missed the main part of my post - below your
> post.
>
> On 24/05/10 20:53, Ryan Lanham wrote:
> > Yep.  Been following him longer than I've followed John Robb.  He's a
> > polymath genius...
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:44 PM, j.martin.pedersen <
> > m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Ridley?
> >>
> >> On 24/05/10 20:20, Ryan Lanham wrote:
> >>> Michel,
> >>>
> >>> I am reading a good book now by Matt Ridley called the Rational
> Optimist.
> >>> He points out that doom and gloom about the future is an old sport that
> >>> rarely if ever plays out to be true or useful.  The reality he claims
> is
> >>> that things are getting wildly better rapidly, and will get wildly
> better
> >>> still.  Whether or not he is ultimately correct or not is, I suppose,
> in
> >> the
> >>> eye of the beholder.  He makes compelling arguments to my mind.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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