Birds Books and Bullshit
Well, I guess all you have to do is wait a little while and John Stewart Mill brings up my own point about different eras having different assumptions.
"Ages are no more infallible than individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false, but absurd. And, it is a certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many once general are rejected by the present."
Birds Books and Bullshit
@f00fc7c8 The further I get into this essay, the further that aside really shows itself as just one of his cultural blind spots. He happily admits later on that every individual and culture has these "failures" and then continues to advocate for things that really should have caused him to rethink that culturalization idea
I'm sure 200 years from now some internet historian is going to marvel at my own contradictory practices, despite my attempts to be otherwise.
Well, were I notable, anyhow.
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