[lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland's imminent implosion and the wider effects

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sun Nov 6 11:53:00 PST 2011


On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:45:03 +0100 Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote, astutely:


> please don't insult all our intelligence by
> pretending that your case is self-evident

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Anything that appears self-evident is almost certainly wrong. And wrong not just as-it-happens, but wrong essentially; the self-evidence and the wrongness spring from the same root.

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