RE: [Marxism] Re: the clitoris-orgasm t thread

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Fort deserves honorable mention in this discussion.  The old
iconoclast used to tweek the nose of science at every opportunity.  He
was the earliest I know of who punctured the "survival of the fittest"
as a tautology.  We know the "fittest" by who survives," so all the
statement really says is "the survivers survived."

I have a real soft spot for Fort and urge anyone interested in some
classic puncturings of the science bubble to go to him rather than to
the New Age silliness.  Then, too, the thing about Fort was that he
never really lept from the
"stop-being-pompous-about-what-none-of-us-know" response to making his
own claims to know.  The "Forteans" are about as true to what Fort was
doing as are most of the self-labelled Jeffersonians and the ... well
... (ahem) ...Marxists.

ML







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