#42 On objective exploitation
Dear Jamie, I’d already read the Atlantic article of Between the World and Me, and read it again after your suggestion. To be honest I found it baleful and conspiratorial.
The work of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann
Dear Jamie, I’d already read the Atlantic article of Between the World and Me, and read it again after your suggestion. To be honest I found it baleful and conspiratorial.
Dear Mat, Can society be working for some but not others? Can it be objectively measured? This is a much moreĀ fascinating disagreement! The left expect the perfect society; the right
Dear Jamie, Thank you for your answers, but I think I disagree with almost everything you said. Let’s begin.
Dear Mat, I fear this is boiling down to an ancient disagreement over how much we should care about something, rather than whether we should care about it. You agreeĀ that
Dear Jamie You said “women are treated unfairly in overt and subtle ways”. That’s true. All groups are to different extents in different ways. And groups on average are different
Dear Mat, Good questions. I guess I am being ideological, in the sense that it’s impossible not to be. I take it that more freedom for more people is better
Dear Master F, We should just deal quickly with this notion of “rigidity” but then I think we can move on. If I understand you correctly you call M/F rigid
Dear M, Our representations of the world are of roughly two kinds: innate (you call them “toolkits”) and ideological (which you call “maps”)*. The problem with maps, you say is