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Exactly that, thank you!

Correctly, as I remembered, he was one of the voices that gave interviews to spread the "creed" in the past weeks - I recognized the name. And he stated in the interviews: "We will get hurt immensely, but we will reach the goal" - this shall be an intellectual warning to the adopters of naïve rational-agentism ("homo oeconomicus would never").

I see that I remembered the wrong faculty: he worked at the Department of Sociology (I probably confused the book name with the department). And I see that the use as textbook has been sparse - adopted and celebrated here and there.

I must recommend that readers go through that list: it is "quite strong". The presence of the UK in the list as an entity that should be separated from Europe is what woke up some commentators after Brexit, with the question "Could they have helped it - surely they expressed they wanted it".

Reported words of that author, that may give a sketchy profile:

> I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good

> If we want to liberate ourselves from the West, it is needed to liberate ourselves from textbooks on physics and chemistry

...And those lines should again be flashing hints to those who like to consider the players at the chessboard agents following a common rational framework.



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