Poe’s law, elizajane, Poe’s law.

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The first was a talk by E. Michael Jones, who actually has a Wikipedia page. In the program, he was described as “Catholic scholar and writer, specializing in historical analysis.” The title of his presentation was “English Ideology, Newton & the Exploitation of Science.”

The argument goes something like this: We know that Darwin was inspired by the economics of his day, since he took the inspiration for natural selection from Malthus. So too, Newton was inspired by the economics of his day in developing his physics, or to put it in other terms, “Newtonian physics is likewise a projection of economics on nature.” With Newtonian physics, motion was no longer an intrinsic drive or teleological. Motion was imposed on objects from outside “forces,” the idea for which Jones said came from English capitalism. Jones spent a lot of time describing Newton’s life and how the Whigs of the day could exploit this notion of externally-imposed force to political advantage.