Monday, February 16, 2004

Name This Book

Razib, at Gene Expression, has a post up titled “The evolution of ideas." In the post Razib asks us to imagine certain things, which I will list below, and states "Most of you know what I’m getting at." He them names a book.  I evidently did not know what he was driving at because I named a different book.  Imagine the following and then name the book you think he was alluding to.

A great thinker writes a book

The book influences many individuals

Political movements start

More books are written about the great book

Politics takes on a life of its own, the ideas in the book are implemented

More books are written about the great book

Politics keeps on a movin’

More books are written about the books written about the book

Factions develop over intrepretations of the book, and the books about the book

People die over ideas encapsulated in the great book, and the books about the book

The congruence between the ideas in the great book and those of the great thinker and those of politicians implementing those ideas becomes a stretch

Posted by John Venlet on 02/16 at 06:00 AM
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