Wheels within wheels.

[Galen]

(08-19-2018, 02:11 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(07-11-2018, 01:24 PM)Hintergrund Wrote: Yeah. To hell with marxism, Marx was a yuge fraudster and nothing more.

I would largely say that Marx was a pre-scientific sociologist.  Much like Freud was a pre-scientific psychologist.  Most of his theories have been debunked because new information and developments have made them obsolete.

You are right about Marx.  Given the problems modern psychology has with replicating experimental results I would say most psychologists are pre-scientific even if they aren't quite as crazy as Freud was.  The problem with modern economists is that they use the methods of engineering and physics where they don't apply.  This is why they can't understand why increasing the size of the state impoverishes everyone except those with connections to it.

(08-19-2018, 02:11 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: As for PBR's accusation.  Well I honestly don't think he's even read that book and if he did he clearly didn't understand it.  Like Eric he seems to think himself more intellectually gifted than he actually is.  How much of that is being a Boomer and how much of it is Dunning-Kruger effect I've yet to determine.  But don't take my word for it.  Look around, read his posts.

Understanding is not something that I have come to expect from PBR or Eric the Obtuse.  They are true believers in the American Civic Religion with a few quirks unique to them.  The one belief they have in common above all others is the primacy of the state.  True believers have no questions because they have no doubt and can't be bothered to question anything.