[p2p-research] john pilger on the greeks

[j.martin.pedersen]

Acted honourably?!?

I have grave problems taking serious professors who make 40k a year and
talk about social issues. People who are born with a silver spoon up
their arse and make 300k a year and live in huge castles and what not,
are simply beyond the limits of my taste. I cannot take such people
serious. I find them disgusting. Being a friend of Dawkins and defender
of Lomborg suits him well. Atheists are generally spiritually
impoverished people.

?I wonder what you think about a text like this, which has recently been
translated:
http://cybernet.jottit.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiqqun

It is more to my taste, philosophically and politically. Anyone can
cheer on the status quo and root for the side that's winning. Not much
of a challenge.

On 24/05/10 21:09, Ryan Lanham wrote:
> 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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