ngl I did like his Book Sense of Style as I am an advocate for clear and simple prose (tho i rarely practice it), and his arguments in Tabula Rasa are reasonable: humans are not "empty slates" we do have innate cognitive faculties, as all animals do. No one debates this now but it needed to be said, 40 years ago, or did it? even then most arguments only apply to like radical behaviorists or stalinist sociologists and in retrospect it's clearly part of his whole anti "postmodern" neo enlightenment bullshit because it's a straw man of contemporary anthropology. Weird If you watch interviews he did in the 80's he seems almost like a leftist, but no, he is just
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ngl I did like his Book Sense of Style as I am an advocate for clear and simple prose (tho i rarely practice it), and his arguments in Tabula Rasa are reasonable: humans are not "empty slates" we do have innate cognitive faculties, as all animals do. No one debates this now but it needed to be said, 40 years ago, or did it? even then most arguments only apply to like radical behaviorists or stalinist sociologists and in retrospect it's clearly part of his whole anti "postmodern" neo enlightenment bullshit because it's a straw man of contemporary anthropology. Weird If you watch interviews he did in the 80's he seems almost like a leftist, but no, he is justkinda gay very "nice" and well spoken, and I think that helped him fly under the radar for many years as he increasingly became more mask of about his reactionary agenda. So yeah, what a p.o.s. also a Lolita Express frequent Flyer. 😒
ngl I did like his Book Sense of Style as I am an advocate for clear and simple prose (tho i rarely practice it), and his arguments in Tabula Rasa are reasonable: humans are not "empty slates" we do have innate cognitive faculties, as all animals do. No one debates this now but it needed to be said, 40 years ago, or did it? even then most arguments only apply to like radical behaviorists or stalinist sociologists and in retrospect it's clearly part of his whole anti "postmodern" neo enlightenment bullshit because it's a straw man of contemporary anthropology. Weird If you watch interviews he did in the 80's he seems almost like a leftist, but no, he is just