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Saturday, February 20, 2021
How to write a Flintstones history of money — Brett Scott
How projecting the present onto the past to explain history is misleading.
“He then uses this to explain the emergence of money, which is a pure example of a shoddy, presentist, teleological Flintstones history of money, and one that is still widely used.“
But this same guy is alleging that the ancient Greeks had a time machine and went forward in time to the Roman pantheon to get the name of that future empires goddess of the protectress of funds (Moneta) to make a figure of speech and then get back in time machine to go back in time to Greece and say they had “money!” system...
“He then uses this to explain the emergence of money, which is a pure example of a shoddy, presentist, teleological Flintstones history of money, and one that is still widely used.“
ReplyDeleteBut this same guy is alleging that the ancient Greeks had a time machine and went forward in time to the Roman pantheon to get the name of that future empires goddess of the protectress of funds (Moneta) to make a figure of speech and then get back in time machine to go back in time to Greece and say they had “money!” system...