Oh, gag me with a silver dollar
: Larry Lessig on promoting Mark Cooper’s book, which I chewed up and spat out recently:
I wrote at the end of last month about Marck [sic] Cooper
5 responses to “Oh, gag me with a silver dollar”
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Huh? I don’t see the “Maoist” aspect. Isn’t he making a simple business pitch about it being more effective to have some of a large pie than all of a small pie?
That argument can be debated. But how do you get from “and if you like what you read, buy it from Amazon.” to “As if there were anything wrong with earning a buck”? -
“Mark was slow to get me the link because he said he didn
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AH! I (wrongly) read “get me the link” as meaning the book had been available to buy from Amazon, and the free download was just now being released. I had it reversed, because that makes a sort of sense. NOW I see what you’re talking about. It makes my head hurt too :-)
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It is not called Maoist anymore. The new term is Mooreist (as in Michael).
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The human brain tries to automatically correct for data-errors and fill in the blanks so that things seem at least vaguely logical. I had to read it about 5 times before it finally parsed correctly.
