[lbo-talk] stupidest quote of the week from an American politician?

[Jerry Monaco]

On 7/21/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
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> [WS:] Au contraire, the "stupid" stipulation would be quite boring.  I
> stipulated something rather different and more fun - that people tend to
> follow established paths, group norms and expectations they create.  This
> is
> a smart thing under most circumstances - it reduces transaction cost of
> decision making.

[jm;] Oh you did no such thing.  You only back tracked later.  You posited
that people were "sheep-like", "herd-like" and "flock-like".  All notions
when applied to human beings implies stupidity.
And then you posited that this "sheep-like", "herd-like" and "flock-like"
behaviour was biologically developed and your social darwinist prejudices
were offerred as proof.
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