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1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 07:16:54 UTC Danyl Strype

   • KevinCarson1
   @kevincarson1 similar ideas occurred to me as I was reading Sagar's article but I don't know if I agree with your use of "technocratic" ...
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 13:55:13 UTC Danyl Strype
     Fascinating essay on the historical Adam Smith ...
     https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-look-closely-at-what-adam-smith-actually-believed
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 13:56:31 UTC Danyl Strype

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     ... not the cartoonish superhero Adam Smith of free market fundamentalists. Anyone here actually read 'The Wealth of Nations' (I haven't)
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 14:16:31 UTC Danyl Strype

     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw48a1 amazing he could see that bolshevism and neoliberalism are opposite sides of the same coin of bloody-minded utopianism ...
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 14:19:07 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw48a1 ... more than a century before either of these even existed!
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 23:40:18 UTC Danyl Strype

     • KevinCarson1
     @kevincarson1 Sagar's argument is that Smith was neither "right" nor "left", but more a pragmatic incrementalist. Your thoughts on that?
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:28:10 UTC Danyl Strype

     • KevinCarson1
     @kevincarson1 true, which is why I put scare quotes around it ;)
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:35:34 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • KevinCarson1
     @kevincarson1 Sagar presumes that the left, like the right, base policy on totalizing ideology ("man of system"), not real world analysis
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:37:16 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • KevinCarson1
     @kevincarson1 ... or at least Sagar presumes that's what Adam Smith thought and why he rejected both "right" and "left" politics
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 07:34:41 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • KevinCarson1
     @kevincarson1...  as Sagar puts it, Smith's argument against "the man of system" sounds like a critique of technocracy, not a celebration.
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 07:35:45 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • KevinCarson1
     @kevincarson1 centrists might claim that pragmatism = centrism, and vice-versa, but I strongly disagree ;)