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August 8, 2010
Dave Winer (Who?) thinks he's a Smart. Krugman and Greenwald too.
Sometime Shaman of the Smart Tribe, Dave Winer has...A revelation: What I think matters
I wish people who say that would pick up one thing that Krugman says and refute it in a semi-convincing way. I am open to different points of view, but "Krugman is wrong" and calling it "polluted by junk science" -- well I'm very educated, and a really smart.Dave needs to read the definitive item on "The Smarts," The Smart People Crowd @ Rhymes With Cars & Girls, but his colonized mind is way too smart for that.
Posted by Vanderleun at August 8, 2010 11:31 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"colonized mind"
Not being smart, the immediate way I read that was:
colon-ized mind
Or maybe colon-sized mind
Whatever. I just like the word "colon" today.
Posted by: Cameron at August 8, 2010 2:14 PM
I wish people who say that would pick up one thing that Krugman says and refute it in a semi-convincing way.
Posted by: rickl at August 8, 2010 7:33 PM
I passed that link along to winer in his comments thread. We'll see if he spends the time to track it or just continues wallowing in his Smartitude.
Posted by: vanderleun at August 8, 2010 8:41 PM
Denninger says:
... one cannot manufacture CAPITAL out of thin air - one must PRODUCE it.On a number of occasions I have explained to others why I was a better economist while dead drunk and passed out on the floor than Paul ("A punchline in search of a joke") Krugman, and it boils down to Krugman not understanding where capital comes from.
I no longer get drunk and pass out on the floor, but I am still a better economist than Krugman.
Posted by: EW1(SG) at August 8, 2010 9:26 PM
People who walk around backing up their opinions with 'I must be right, I am well educated and smart' are the people who are most likely to be scammed. They are just begging for it, really.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 9, 2010 7:26 AM
Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas-
Lord Acton
Posted by: james wilson at August 9, 2010 11:12 AM