I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
Richard Dawkins
Reading that at RMJ's I remembered that the philosopher and atheist Quentin Smith said that Dawkins had succeeded Stephen Hawking as having made the worst argument in the history of Western thought, the one he made against God in The God Delusion. I'd say it was only one of a number of stupidest things that Dawkins has said, including his most famous invented scientific fact and pretty much his radical gene-centric view of natural selection but this one is stunningly stupid. Even for Dawkins, it's stupid.
Yet I would bet you if he hadn't given himself a case of the cooties with his creepy misogyny and things like his saying a little pedophile abuse such as those fabled Brit public school dons practiced in his youth wasn't any big deal, the atheists online would still consider him a gen'yus.
"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
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