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Remember that whole year you had to have Piketty on your coffee table to be accepted in polite society?
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Remember that whole year you had to have Piketty on your coffee table to be accepted in polite society?
I’m sorry, but people read the fucking Bible. Maybe not cover-to-cover or with any degree of critical analysis. But far too many people have the John 3:16 shirts on to get me to believe nobody’s cracking the spine.
The Bible is the Monty Python of religious texts. Tons of nerds have their favorite chapters and can recall them practically line-by-line.
Which is literally the definition of citing it without reading it.
It’s the definition of people who have read it a thousand times reciting it by heart.