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pyre on June 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?

You're not going to find out about 'what Japan did' by reading 'the classics' though. The past is encompassed in more than just classic literature.

yters on June 8, 2011 [–]

Quite true, but classics focus on distilling principles. If the authors' thinking was valid then, there isn't any reason it shouldn't be valid now, as I've been arguing that at least parts of the past repeat.

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