[lbo-talk] Christopher Hitchens dead

[// ravi]

On Dec 16, 2011, at 10:07 AM, John Gulick wrote:
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> John:
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> The Youtube comments section is of course an infamous wasteland, but why is it that these infantile, retro-18th Century "science vs religion" debates take up such disproportionate residence there? I suppose it's because these are interesting issues to the 12-year-olds who populate Youtube, the youths who believe that because they are arriving at answers to these questions for the first time, the world must have never debated them before?
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Yes, I think that’s what it is. Though, I suspect the 12 year olds are 25 year old techies fresh off of Ayn Rand and/or Obama and/or Steven Levitt.

	—ravi