Wednesday, July 8, 2020

July 8 2020 - Luddites and Flat Earthers

Is there an intersection between luddites and flat-earthers?  This makes sense to me.  The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century.  They destroyed textile machinery - I guess they knew where their jobs were going.  Luddites today could be political, lazy or contentious/argumentative.  That seems to be how we perceive the Flat Earthers - mostly contentious and argumentative.

This interests me as I think the Flat Earthers and Luddites are 'bunched' together.  If we were to do a social study, we'd likely find an expectation of a correlation.  Instead, I took a simple route and found these examples from books.google.ca 

Collaborative Wisdom: From Pervasive Logic to Effective ...
Earth and Aristotle in the third century BC supported this position on empirical ... I must admit to having been a bit of a Luddite or flat Earther in respect of the ...

Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism
They see anarchists as Luddites and flat-earthers who resist an inevitable economic global order (Friedman 1999:A26). These dismissals of anarchism, ...

Language and Clinical Communication: This Bright Babylon
A doctor may simply be thought of as a flat-earther, a Luddite, someone whose exasperation with communication is evidence of a dead soul - or may be taken ...

Motorcycle Track Day Handbook - Page 57 - Google Books Result
The flat-earthers and Luddites among you might have to resort to Obtaining the information wia snail mail. The wording differs from One club to another, but the ..

Aren't the titles amazing and the extracts curious?  I give you the links in case any one of them speaks to your own curiosity.  For me, it would be to find out if  the whole book is as badly thought-out and written as the extract. What is your guess? 

Here's my disappointing view of the Lavender Farm in Vineland.  I am wishing for those gorgeous pictures with billowing lavender on rolling hills, as in France, or billowing lavender with two lavender Muskoa chairs as the focal point as in Oregon.  Oh well...next year.



 
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