Re: Good article on Jared Diamond

[Carl Remick <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > >... It's that good-natured relativism that makes his books at once so
> > >maddening and yet so necessary; it's also what makes talking to him so
> > >perplexing: Diamond sees the best in so many people, it's almost
> impossible
> > >not to like him. ...
>
> Carl:
> > Strange, I don't find it difficult at all.
>
> I don't think the issue is whether one likes or dislikes Diamond. It's
> his work that's relevant.

It's nice to think so, but Diamond -- as a major brand-name academic
humanist -- does a severe disservice to any progressive cause through his
fatuous endorsement of self-aggrandizing CEOs as mensches.

Carl