jbdelong

It is not clear what game Sallust is playing in his _Cataline's Conspiracy_ here. Is Caesar wisely warning against norm-breaking? Is Caesar trying to cut Cataline & co. a break? Or is Caesar warning Cicero of what he Caesar, will do in -49, and what his adopted son Octavian will do to Cicero in -43?

There may be many layers of irony here...

Hey, Heydenberk—

I _am_ curious here. Can you enlighten me as to your thinking?

"Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republi­can) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages..."

????

Hey, Heydenberk—

Why isn't this from Graeber completely dispositive on whether he is a loon or not?

"Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republi­can) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages..."

Genuinely curious: it seems to me (and to people I talk to) to demonstrate that Graeber not only does not do his homework but does not even know what doing his homework might be...

Can you explain, please?