Popularity = wrong? The Oook !! you say.WildGorillaMan wrote:I've never thought of Gladwell as a corporate shill, I just thought of him as a shaggy dog tale teller and lazy cherry pickers of data.milosz wrote:There's another Gladwell hit floating around. I think both are pretty weak indictments of him (HE LIKED REAGAN IN 1982!!!), but that's irrelevant - Gladwell is a harebrained ninny. That's all the damning he needs.
Levitt falls into the usual economist trap of thinking economics is a hard science rather than social science/philosophy (depending on the day).
Fact is, as Gladwell and Levitt have made careers pointing out, popular perceptions are often wrong, and both Gladwell and Levitt are popular authors, which means that they themselves are often wrong.
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Better book, I think along those lines is Plagues and Peoples. Should be able to find it used and cheap.Hank Scorpio wrote:I don't trust him either, after seeing his TV version of the book mentioned above. He's one of those who believes that Western civilization is positioned as it is due to a bunch of accidents.CharlieBob wrote:woa woa wao, What?!?johno wrote:*Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs & Steel, is another one I don't trust.
Short Answer: India and Africa are cesspools of disease affecting the great western and eastern empires of the last 2000 years
http://www.amazon.com/Plagues-Peoples-W ... 0385121229
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I prefer Victor Davis Hanson's stuff myself. But only due to readability.
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Ed Zachary wrote:I prefer Victor Davis Hanson's stuff myself. But only due to readability.
which book? imma be on a plane soon, love books about how india and africa are shitholes
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Carnage and Culture is a good start.Blaidd Drwg wrote:
which book? imma be on a plane soon, love books about how india and africa are shitholes
Western Way of War is one of his earlier books.
Other than Mexifornia all of his stuff is about the west's rise to prominence.
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Ed Zachary wrote:Carnage and Culture is a good start.Blaidd Drwg wrote:
which book? imma be on a plane soon, love books about how india and africa are shitholes
Western Way of War is one of his earlier books.
Other than Mexifornia all of his stuff is about the west's rise to prominence.
is mexifornia any good?
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You might enjoy this, by a French author who resisted the temptation to write like a German one:Blaidd Drwg wrote:Ed Zachary wrote:I prefer Victor Davis Hanson's stuff myself. But only due to readability.
which book? imma be on a plane soon, love books about how india and africa are shitholes
http://www.amazon.com/A-History-Civiliz ... 0140124896
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I haven't read Mexifornia.
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You'd like Keegan's A History of Warfare.
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I've read some articles he's written on the subject and they were depressingly good.Blaidd Drwg wrote:Ed Zachary wrote:Carnage and Culture is a good start.Blaidd Drwg wrote:
which book? imma be on a plane soon, love books about how india and africa are shitholes
Western Way of War is one of his earlier books.
Other than Mexifornia all of his stuff is about the west's rise to prominence.
is mexifornia any good?
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Read "White Mans Burden".DrDonkeyLove wrote:I've read some articles he's written on the subject and they were depressingly good.Blaidd Drwg wrote:Ed Zachary wrote:Carnage and Culture is a good start.Blaidd Drwg wrote:
which book? imma be on a plane soon, love books about how india and africa are shitholes
Western Way of War is one of his earlier books.
Other than Mexifornia all of his stuff is about the west's rise to prominence.
is mexifornia any good?
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Be forewarned my liberal hippie drug crazed friend from the emerald city VDH is ridiculously conservative. It's not as noticeable in his books but very obvious in his articles.