True, but do heros have power? My heros are generally powerless. It’s that they managed to do great things in spite of this that earns my hero’s respect.
Yeah it depends on who your heroes are for sure, but unless we’re talking about like “my granma”, anyone who has significant accomplishments probably has enough social status within their group to count as powerful.
Thinking more like Rachel Carlson, author of Silent Spring. Social cred now, sure, but she was an obscure marine biologist toiling away for a pittance at the time.
Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carlson, E.O. Wilson, and many many more. I wonder how many I would find assholes if I ever met then on a street, or had them over for dinner.
My dad was a linguist, so he’d met chomsky at conferences when he was just a big name in linguistics, not politically. Despite being very left wing, my dad wouldn’t listen to anything chomsky later had to say on politics because dad hated chomsky. Arrogant pig-headed asshole, he’d say. And when my dad called someone an asshole he specifically meant a kind of false or unempathetic rudeness.
Before the epstein files came out i told my partner I bet chomsky is in there.
That said i want to believe specialists toiling in a field they love are less likely to fall prey to this, but academia politics are known to be brutal.
Could be, you never know. But I doubt Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson went to epstein island. But great point. Epstein coveted intelligentia deliberately.
True, but do heros have power? My heros are generally powerless. It’s that they managed to do great things in spite of this that earns my hero’s respect.
Yeah it depends on who your heroes are for sure, but unless we’re talking about like “my granma”, anyone who has significant accomplishments probably has enough social status within their group to count as powerful.
Thinking more like Rachel Carlson, author of Silent Spring. Social cred now, sure, but she was an obscure marine biologist toiling away for a pittance at the time.
Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carlson, E.O. Wilson, and many many more. I wonder how many I would find assholes if I ever met then on a street, or had them over for dinner.
My dad was a linguist, so he’d met chomsky at conferences when he was just a big name in linguistics, not politically. Despite being very left wing, my dad wouldn’t listen to anything chomsky later had to say on politics because dad hated chomsky. Arrogant pig-headed asshole, he’d say. And when my dad called someone an asshole he specifically meant a kind of false or unempathetic rudeness.
Before the epstein files came out i told my partner I bet chomsky is in there.
That said i want to believe specialists toiling in a field they love are less likely to fall prey to this, but academia politics are known to be brutal.
Could be, you never know. But I doubt Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson went to epstein island. But great point. Epstein coveted intelligentia deliberately.