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060 - The Human Use of Human Beings, Part 1

General Intellect Unit

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The Death of the Renaissance Man Scientist

The way that characterizes progress ideology is essentially through lysencoism and through Lamarckian descriptions of an evolutionary mechanism. The American progress ideology has at its heart this Lamarckian adaptive kind of faith that because we have a problem, we will find the answer. I wonder if the bourgeois ideology needs the kind of Lamarckian angle to just kind of believe that things will just improve without them actually needing to create the condition like solidify capital in place.

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