Date: 16/03/2014 12:57:21
From: Soso
ID: 504237
Subject: Peak Rationality

Some time around 1980.

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Date: 16/03/2014 12:58:28
From: Soso
ID: 504238
Subject: re: Peak Rationality

It worked in preview…

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Date: 16/03/2014 12:59:42
From: Soso
ID: 504239
Subject: re: Peak Rationality

Try this

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Date: 16/03/2014 13:09:05
From: captain_spalding
ID: 504242
Subject: re: Peak Rationality

Soso said:


Some time around 1980.

It was the time of the Awakening.

In that odd coincidental way that great ideas seem to occur in more than one place (e.g. the invention of bows and arrows, calculus, and bagpipes), there occurred in various parts of the world the idea that there were many fools out there, with money from which they ought to be parted.

The process continues, at some social cost.

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Date: 16/03/2014 14:03:13
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 504252
Subject: re: Peak Rationality

Soso said:


Some time around 1980.

I wouldn’t disagree with that. That was about the time that modernism ended and postmodernism started. Postmodernism makes no claims to being rational.

Some events relevant to that timescale.
Cosmological inflation was first proposed in January 1980.
First IBM PC in August 1981, first Microsoft operating system.
The first realistic supersymmetric version of the Standard Model was proposed in 1981.
The first superstring revolution occurred in the early 1980s.

Cosmological inflation exists, supersymmetry doesn’t exist.

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Date: 16/03/2014 18:16:07
From: Soso
ID: 504301
Subject: re: Peak Rationality

mollwollfumble said:


Soso said:

Some time around 1980.

I wouldn’t disagree with that. That was about the time that modernism ended and postmodernism started. Postmodernism makes no claims to being rational.

Also coincided with the advent of neoconservativism as the dominant political ideology.

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Date: 16/03/2014 18:18:07
From: captain_spalding
ID: 504302
Subject: re: Peak Rationality

Soso said:


mollwollfumble said:

Soso said:

Some time around 1980.

I wouldn’t disagree with that. That was about the time that modernism ended and postmodernism started. Postmodernism makes no claims to being rational.

Also coincided with the advent of neoconservativism as the dominant political ideology.

Postmodernism is based on the premise that no idea is too stupid to be put into action.

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