Some ideas are good and some are bad even if it is also true that if one wants to be appreciated for those ideas one must find a receptive audience.
You mean the ideas of people being paid for pretending to be intellectuals, Grady :)
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Let’s follow your comment to its natural conclusion, then. Hence, if any idea has economic value it is therefore not intellectual. Continuing, the only One True and Pure Intellect is a person who offers absolute no measurable value to humanity.
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I think that the economic value, the intellectual value and the normative value of an idea are orthogonal dimensions. I don't intend to dismiss any of these dimensions.
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You're so right, as usual. We should all just give up and rock back and forth until the rising sea levels wash away the grand mistake of consciousness in these meat puppets.
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Nooooo! Lets not waste our opportunity for an amazing journey and the chance to reflect the universe at the unique point in time and human history where we have the resources and tools to do so. Ignore the cults and their toadies, they are not important.
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