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“Time is a flat circle,” Rustin Cohle says in the first season of *True Detective*. “Everything we have done or will do, we will do over and over and over again, forever.”
Time Is a Flat Circle
dailystoic.com
He had been droning along about „value,“ comparing the Marxist theory with the orthodox „use“ theory. Mr. Dubois had said, „Of course, the Marxian definition of value is ridiculous. All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart; it remains a mud pie, value zero. By corollary, unskillful work can easily subtract value; an untalented cook can turn wholesome dough and fresh green apples, valuable already, into an inedible mess, value zero. Conversely, a great chef can fashion of those same materials a confection of greater value than a commonplace apple tart, with no more effort than an ordinary cook uses to prepare an ordinary sweet.
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
For example, the fact that black applicants for mortgage loans are turned down at a higher rate than white applicants has been widely cited as proof of racism among lending institutions. The Washington Post, for example, reported that a “racially biased system of home lending exists” and Jesse Jackson called it “criminal activity” that banks “routinely and systematically discriminate against African-Americans and Latinos in making mortgage loans.” But the very same data also showed that whites were turned down at a higher rate than Asian Americans. Was that proof of racism against whites, and in favor of Asians?
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
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