Thanks for the perspective, Yarrow. Note the post is supposed to be about “The simplified stereotype leftist view”, and “The simplified stereotype rightist view”, not about the median, or strongest leftist and rightist views.
I would say it’s much worse than just a simplification or a stereotype, it’s just plain wrong.
If someone writes a post arguing that doctors are fools to prescribe anti-biotics to prevent novel coronavirus infections because of the respective properties of anti-biotics and viruses, that error in understanding what doctors are really recommending — mRNA vaccines — is more than a simplification or a stereotype. That person is just confused about what doctors are really saying. They are getting the details on which everything depends wrong, in such a way that their argument makes no sense as a result.
Saying that most or all leftists are Marxists (which is not close to true, it’s probably less than 1%) and then getting even the Marxist view wrong is a huge error. And also getting the mainstream orthodox capitalist economists’ view wrong too! And the post is filled with other huge errors of this kind.
It would be so time-intensive to explain everything wrong with this post, it’s better to just say people should start from scratch and learn about these kind of economic debates from reliable sources. And then you’ll see for yourself how wrong this post is.
While reading this post, I had a twinge of horror imagining what it would be like if civilization collapsed and, while we still had possession of books, knowledge transmission and intellectual traditions broke down so that all our views on economics, science, technology, history, politics, philosophy, ethics, medicine, and so on were as twisted and distorted as what you see in this post. A sort of broken telephone version of the original ideas.
Thanks for the perspective, Yarrow. Note the post is supposed to be about “The simplified stereotype leftist view”, and “The simplified stereotype rightist view”, not about the median, or strongest leftist and rightist views.
I would say it’s much worse than just a simplification or a stereotype, it’s just plain wrong.
If someone writes a post arguing that doctors are fools to prescribe anti-biotics to prevent novel coronavirus infections because of the respective properties of anti-biotics and viruses, that error in understanding what doctors are really recommending — mRNA vaccines — is more than a simplification or a stereotype. That person is just confused about what doctors are really saying. They are getting the details on which everything depends wrong, in such a way that their argument makes no sense as a result.
Saying that most or all leftists are Marxists (which is not close to true, it’s probably less than 1%) and then getting even the Marxist view wrong is a huge error. And also getting the mainstream orthodox capitalist economists’ view wrong too! And the post is filled with other huge errors of this kind.
It would be so time-intensive to explain everything wrong with this post, it’s better to just say people should start from scratch and learn about these kind of economic debates from reliable sources. And then you’ll see for yourself how wrong this post is.
While reading this post, I had a twinge of horror imagining what it would be like if civilization collapsed and, while we still had possession of books, knowledge transmission and intellectual traditions broke down so that all our views on economics, science, technology, history, politics, philosophy, ethics, medicine, and so on were as twisted and distorted as what you see in this post. A sort of broken telephone version of the original ideas.