• quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    28 days ago

    Thoughts including Einstein’s Why Socialism, and MLK’s anticapitalism:

    “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”

    Yes, please put those busts next to the Milton Friedman bust, thanks!

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      28 days ago

      you’re putting ten times more thought into this than he has. Einstein is a cool super genius and MLK is a cool civil rights leader that’s why they are there literal 12 year old logic. what do you think are the political contribution of Tupac or the shah lmao.

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        28 days ago

        Yeah each of these depictions is a caricature, a token Stoic Smart Contemplative Guy who uses Rationality and Facts to discover order in the universe underneath the chaos. The actuality of each person, such as their politics, is an inconvenient distraction.