Adages are inherently simplistic and false, hardly worthy of debate among the learned. Gibb's Adage #3117.

James G. Gibb

Gibb Archaeological Consulting

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Nov 17, 2010 12:55:03 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

Maybe the Swedes just haven't "run out of other peoples money" yet?  This 
was, after all, the rest of his quote.

Rich Green
Historic Archaeological Research
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "geoff carver" 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: 2nd Backorder


> My favourite Reagan line was "Ketchup is a vegetable." We always used to 
> say
> Reagan was, too.
> Just wondering what the Swedes would say about your take on socialism, and
> at the same time wondering how you could do historical archaeology while
> holding such an historically false belief?
> I've been doing a lot of work on the history & epistemology of
> archaeological documentation, and some of the discipline's ties to
> uniformitarianism, and one of my favourite lines is something Woolley 
> wrote
> something in the early 1960s about going from the "known to the unknown" 
> in
> making interpretations and inferences. So my question is: if you start out
> with a demonstrably false premise "socialism fails, etc." (i.e. what is
> "known"), then how can your inferences or interpretations about the past
> (the "unknown") have any validity?
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> "SOCIALISM FAILS WHEN IT RUNS OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"
> "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the
> government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
> If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a 
> nation
> gone under" - Ronald Reagan