Max Sawicky wrote: > Methinks optimism bias is not unique to capitalism. Just ask Don Quixote.
this is another example of the logical slip I complained about yesterday. I said that capitalism encourages over-confidence and you respond with an over-interpretation, i.e., assuming that I said that capitalism was the _only_ source of over-confidence. obviously, other types of society besides capitalism involved situations where over-confidence is needed as a psychological survival mechanism. But it's capitalism which tends to make those situations the rule. (Luckily capitalism hasn't realized that tendency completely; as noted, there are pre-existing institutions of other sorts.) also, didn't Cervantes see Don Q as crazy? a holdover of feudalism in the beginnings of capitalism? -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
