> Homo Indeterminatus
>
> Totally not getting the reaction on this. I was surprised by the post
> I first replied to precisely because I think of you as pretty smart -
> so I figured you could take being called out on citing the opening of
> Capital out of context like it provides some kind of defense of
> relativism. I think it was a legit crit on an important point; I
> gather from the reactions it was taken as pedantic, grandstanding,
> whatever. In any case the thread feels pretty stale at this point.
>
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: Gee. I wonder why ur feeling the thread is stale (smile)
>
> Surprise ! I don't agree that the citation was out of context nor
> totally cogent to the issues in the thread.
I didn't either. You were replying to me and my comment that those people weren't working for a salary to sustain their labor, but were working for money to sustain their hobby.
Homo Ind: My Steven den Beste comment was a reference to the fact that den Beste would write a lotta words to say what could have been said in a sentence or two. Bloggers started teasing him, replying to his posts with "Shorter den Beste" posts that said what he'd said in a sentence or two. It became part of blogging culture to then do the same to anyone who had a case of logorrhea.
It was just fucking around.
shag
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