Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.
Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
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Re: Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
#12Stalin is probably an extreme example, but nothing is more dangerous than attributing a society with a totally different worldview to the personality of an individual.
There is an entire thriving culture where many of our strongest held beliefs about government and the power of individuals are just not shared, and other contrary views such as related to the strength of community are emphasized.
And in fact I think if one objectively looks at the mess we have in the western system now, we can see that there are many severe problems. The horrors of the eastern system are well known here. But both sides are extreme worldviews, and we won't have a really functional global system until people are able to integrate ideas. Or maybe we will just wipe each other off the face of the earth, never having understood each other, propagandized by our own (strategically motivated) nation states to exterminate each other.
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#13And here I was thinking that this was about the Evil Overlord List[1]
1 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList
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#14Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.
The substance of an idea is more important than the identity of its author.
Plenty of poor people in pubs have come up with ideas that could've done well on HN.
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#15Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.
The substance of an idea is more important than the identity of its author. Plenty of poor people in pubs have come up with ideas that could've done well on HN.
No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking this equation, what is the theory behind it, who are the authors behind previous papers and what have they said), let alone a boring online news article. Ideas do not create themselves spontaneously, they need a mind behind them. Don’t be tedious!
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#16Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.
Is it okay if I ask New York Times to not be posted here? It has done far more damage to the world that unherd ever can.
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#17Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.
Is it okay if I ask New York Times to not be posted here? It has done far more damage to the world that unherd ever can.
Go wild, the NYT has platformed some inherently questionable people and that should be questioned (let’s start with all the alt-right people they platformed over 2014-2017 making them out to be these friendly talking heads and go from there!) However, the U.K. has an ecosystem of right wing funded papers and being ignorant of that while talking about what’s in the article is cringe.
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#18People overexagerate the perils of dictators forgetting that everyone's dad and mom were dictators in their lives, the authories dictate things all the time, and every manager, president, and prime minister is a dictator of sorts. I guess, what people mostly worry about is having the wrong dictator they do not like, but truly, everybody is being dictated in one way or another, whether they admit it or not. Dictators…
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#19Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.
It is like saying: don't post from internet here--it is full of garbage/trolls (it is true but irrelevant unless your point that all articles are garbage or all users are trolls).
The cancel culture is cancerous.
Re: Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The substance of an idea is more important than the identity of its author. Plenty of poor people in pubs have come up with ideas that could've done well on HN.
No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking this equation, what is the theory behind it, who are the authors behind previous papers and what have they said), let alone a boring online news article. Ideas do not create themselves spontaneously, they need a mind behind them. Don’t be te…
I believe in Pythagoras' Theorem despite the considerable uncertainty about the context in which that idea was produced