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user-inactivated  ·  1317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoins Are Being Tokenized on Ethereum Faster Than They Are Mined

    This is the fundamental idea behind Niall Ferguson's The Square and the Tower. He and Graeber are polar opposites; I always try to read the two of them back to back to balance out the angry radical leftist academic with a pompous self-assured right-wing academic.

Is that Niall Ferguson book pretty transparent in its bias and agenda? I ask because I think I might like to read it, because it appeals to me, but I also know immediately that it appeals to me because I think it'll validate some of my classist world views and I'm trying real hard to disabuse myself from such illusions and it's not easy, especially right now. The world is messy, now's not the time to feed personal beasts.





kleinbl00  ·  1317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It pretty much launches with a defense of the Bavarian Illuminati and uses as its central argument how awesome Henry Kissinger is. Dude wrote a book called 'Civilization: the West and the Rest.'

I appreciate the possibilities cryptocurrency offers the world. I'm fearful of the social darwinism it's likely to engender. Being educated about something doesn't mean you endorse it; you may or may not have noticed that I know a disturbing amount about nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.

user-inactivated  ·  1317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Being educated about something doesn't mean you endorse it

Indeedileedy.