Two Types of People
5th October 2010
Robin Hanson is one of the more eminent thumb-suckers of the modern world.
Of course, the classic statement is that there are two types of people, those who divide people into two types and those who don’t, but that’s not what he means.
This is quite obviously a warming-over of the whole Noble Savage idea most frequently associated with Rousseau (and which ought to have died with him), an idea that modern ‘progressives’ embrace because it tarts up their unrealistic assumptions in a Clever Plastic Disguise.
Memorandum that civilization did not arise among the hunter-gatherers, but among the farmers; if you want to know what ‘progressive’ policies produce, go look at the Khoisan in southern Africa.
October 5th, 2010 at 11:32
You seem to mistakenly think I take the side of the foragers over the farmers.
October 5th, 2010 at 11:50
You seem to mistakenly think that I think you take a side at all.