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They say a lot of things, Nolte.
Barring for a moment that there seems to have been an act of forgetting here that Infinitus on evolution was in the Switchboard, not the Head Shop, I'm not entirely sure why infinitus' first post deserves such a kicking, in particular:
Infinitus, I must say that your heart is probably in the right place. But do be more careful in your phrasing.
Thanks for sharing. Practice makes perfect!
Really, da fug? In particular given that the theories of evolution that are being discussed are already inexactly mapped from biology to sociology. When a poitician - somebody operating in the social rather than biological sphere - talks about "evolution, not revolution", does he or she mean that they are going to see what random adaptations survive and advance the species of, say, health care? Generally not - evolution here means, surely, progress in a series of incremental and non-disruptive steps, with revolution - a dramatic overturning of existing principles and processes in favour of an entirely new model - standing as antithesis. "Evolution" has an existing and acknowledged meaning in corporate and social discourse - one may not agree with it, but it does exist.
Since the thread is about social change rather than biological evolution, I'm not totally convinced that the initial dismissal of infinitus was justified, nor that his subsequent bristling was entirely inexplicable, whether or not well-advised. He is probably going to be too defensive now to get much sense out of, and not entirely without reason. |
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