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down fire from heaven. 'No, no' said Edy. 'The medal is indeed for innovators, but the point about Prometheus is that he was chained to a rock and had his liver pecked out.' " - Stafford Beer _The Brain of the Firm_

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@mcmansionhell @thenation Michael Harrington made the same point in reverse in 1962 in _The Other America_ https://t.co/RiYYB1S9sS

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@ChaseMadar The best & funniest is the first chapter of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. It doesn't cause havoc, but it does make the whole town who makes the mistake look ridiculous, because they think they are proudly pointing out someone else's mistake.

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@EricLevitz Martin Sklar's _The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, The Law and Politics_ is a masterwork on precisely that. It's also a pleasure to read. But a huge slow pleasure, like a great 500 page law journal article.

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@dsquareddigest Kate Fox in _Watching the English_ backs you up, these people are doing it wrong https://t.co/baXIztqqwa

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@vocabmaestro @fivefourpod @davidenrich That's because it jes' grew. The story is brilliantly told in John Langbein's genius book, _The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial_ (He goes back far enough where civil trial was a subset of criminal). Counsel was originally forbidden *on principle.*

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@ChaseMadar The best & funniest is the first chapter of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. It doesn't cause havoc, but it does make the whole town who makes the mistake look ridiculous, because they think they are proudly pointing out someone else's mistake.

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Heartbreaking stories of a cruel system. "Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office." https://t.co/AbnFWPkgVL

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@WilliamHogeland I admit to having a soft spot for David Hackett Fischer's _Albion's Seed_ esp. the Scots-Irish chapter. It's one WTF after another. And IMHO he makes a good faith effort to discipline his enormous speculations with data.

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@dsquareddigest @PreachyPreach @stephenkb "Have we really looked at all the generations since the Iron Age? What made them the greatest generation? Just because they were poor and hated Nazis? Who doesn't hate Nazis?" (from the play "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts)