JA WestenbergMar 9
May god grant me the confidence of someone who read half of Sapiens
Show threadGeePawHillMar 9

@Daojoan Heh. I used one of the ideas from it just a couple of days ago in my writing. But he's at least as suspect a source as Jared Diamond or Stephen Pinker.

In my defense, it was a very good notion:

https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/116172708697109658

Show threadElisabeth MMar 9
@GeePawHill @Daojoan I'm an anthropologist. The book is horrible
Show threadGeePawHillMar 9
@independentpen @Daojoan An important fact, and I agree. But, like Diamond and Pinker, there are ideas -- not facts, not ever facts -- that are useful.
Show threadElisabeth MMar 9
@GeePawHill @Daojoan I guess, but generally even then those ideas aren't unique to them or original
Show threadElisabeth MMar 9
@GeePawHill @Daojoan For example, re: the idea you cited, see communications scholar Walter Fisher writing about the narrative paradigm and the logic of good reasons circa 1980
Show threadGeePawHill
@independentpen @Daojoan Thanks, I'll check it out!
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