In defence of Sociology...

[Poi E]

Hang on, I thought I was fighting a lonely battle for truth in the face of the massed ranks of the Urban75 Skepticism For Beginners Possee. Seems to me you're the one running with the crowd mate.

Well this sort of banal stuff is a let-down after your previous pomposity.

 

[Fruitloop]

First of all, my view is shared by a vastly greater proportion of humanity than yours.

So what? A few hundred years ago they all thought the earth was flat. Maybe it was flat and it was only with the shift to the capitalist/instrumental/totalitarian episteme that it became spherical?

 

[phildwyer]

So what? A few hundred years ago they all thought the earth was flat.

Like fuck they did. The myth that people thought the world was flat before Columbus was perpetrated by his posthumous PR people. Even Nino knows that.