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Submitted by athena1 on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 6:24pm
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The first thing you need to know about natural selection is that it's everywhere. Reality's most powerful tool of precision is like a great Grim Reaper wrapped around the face of the internet, relentlessly jamming its truth into anything that smells like bigotry. In fact, the history of the recent elevator-gate scandal, which doubles as a history of the skepticism movement, reads like a what's what of ideas.

h/t, of course, to the Mighty Taibbi.

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Submitted by lambert on

Did I not get the memo?

That's a pretty cool YouTube...

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Submitted by lizpolaris on

several months ago. It's certainly revolting, the response generated. However, I'm not sure how that relates to the paragraph in your post. You give a hat tip to Matt Taibbi but there's no link to any relevant article. Since this is on the Corrente front page, I've decided to ask - what are you referring to? I've looked up recent articles by MT and can't see the connection.

Care to elaborate, since something bothered you enough to put it here?

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Submitted by lambert on

Thanks. Yes, that's appalling. Homus dickus going terminal.

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That said, this post is a bit oblique for me. I'm not getting the point. What is it?

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Submitted by athena1 on

Not really oblique.

It's just taken from this famous Taibbi passage:

"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/new...

I'm endlessly fascinated by how some on the left don't really understand natural selection. I want to explain it.

Submitted by hipparchia on

i followed elevatorgate closely, and that matt taibbi paragraph has been quoted here at corrente a gazillion times, and i studied a lot of ecology in grad school, and i recognized all the references in your post, but my thoughts on reading your post were huh? and huh?