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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: November 07, 2013, 07:39:14 PM »
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2013, 05:42:03 PM »
One of Charles Murray's post-Bell Curve books is Human Accomplishment in which - I sh**t you not as I read parts of it once for god knows what reason - he tries to list all the supposedly great accomplishments of mankind divided into person and culture and then tries to quantify the data giving the cultures and persons 'achievement points' (Aristotle was top iirc). Oh, and guess what? Accomplishment holds steady with some peaks and troughs until, yes you guessed it, c.1950 and then everything goes into decline because welfare state. That really was his argument.

 (Oh, look at the Wiki page - Dennis Dutton - writer of the worst Art History book of all time - gave it a good review... What a shock).
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2013, 06:19:14 AM »
« Edited: November 09, 2013, 06:38:34 AM by Tetro Kornbluth »
Thanks for posting that article

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One of the truest things ever posted on the Atlas. But hey, Big Data.
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