@SamoBurja "Retarded" is too harsh, but for interesting reasons. Zero was an Outsider in Europe, infiltrated by outsiders -- an infection.
When Adam Garfinkle throws this amount of chum in the water, it deserves at least a nibble:http://www.the-american-interest.com/garfinkle/2013/12/12/its-money-that-matters/ …
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@SamoBurja I'd be interested to see ultra-traditionalists defend the European resistance to the arrival of zero -- it's Modernity after all.
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@SamoBurja You're downplaying the extent to which the arrival of zero was a cultural crisis. Both Classical and Christian cores resisted it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SamoBurja "Zero explanatory power" -- you're so pulsing with the Mind Virus it's luminous. -
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@SamoBurja The early gentile Capitalist virus agents were very tangled up with Jewish channels of mathematical innovation. Venice was Pest. -
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@MattOfTheFyrd It could be I'm reading too much into it, but it definitely seemed to be on the HBD slope -- invoking psychometrics for e.g.
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@SOBL1 That is, of course, part of the story -- but it would be unfortunate if it buried the story, under familiar monkey-business.
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