#like. either your metric of 'better' is unbounded & so broad so as to be analytically useless | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

zvaigzdelasas · 9 months

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"just because what china is doing with BRI is better than colonialism doesn't mean it's not a form of colonialism"

"just because free ice cream and puppy dogs dancing through meadows is better than burning in fire for 513 years doesn't mean free ice cream and puppy dogs dancing through meadows aren't a form of burning in fire for 513 years"

#if you make a claim without bounding the range of the clauses then youre not rly saying much #i see this sorta logic all the time #like. either your metric of 'better' is unbounded & so broad so as to be analytically useless #or theres a qualitative gap youre not accounting for where you do have a bound & something can be of a different 'kind'#but then you have to establish that the object is of that kind in the first place which just gets you back to square 1!#you have to establish that falls in the range of 'better but not qualitatively different'#which assumedly is what the argument is over in the first place right #this is what happens when you extinguish popular analysis of colonialism of any economic analytic & just turn it to 'bad people'#plus what happens when you dont have a concept of superprofits & how to maintain them vs how to maintain profits #or how quantity becomes quality (at critical points of intensity)#but if you just want a thought terminating cliche you can just say #'at a certain point yes it does lol'

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