I just had to read Garret Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" for a property seminar, and I don't think anything I've read in law school has made me this fucking angry. This essay is trash. Hardin was trash. Why is this trash still considered something to teach when it's trash? - ThreadSky

rakdaddy.bsky.social • 10 days ago

I just had to read Garret Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" for a property seminar, and I don't think anything I've read in law school has made me this fucking angry. This essay is trash. Hardin was trash. Why is this trash still considered something to teach when it's trash?

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socmot.bsky.social•9 days ago

Like what?? WHAT??!!

rakdaddy.bsky.social•9 days ago

The seminar is "Theories of Property." His trash essay is certainly a theory.

Gonna be a weird class.

socmot.bsky.social•9 days ago

!!!! My jurisprudence lecturer referred to him as a "modern American Nazi". He was part of our module on fascism! And he's being used in a property law seminar??!!!!

rakdaddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

How in the name of all things holy was this trash published in a journal like Science? It should have been a grubby pamphlet that sits on a counter at a gun store run by that guy from grade school who was into swords and survivalism and wore aviators but never had the nerve to enlist.

rakdaddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

This fucking essay! Fuck this fucking essay!

...no, I will not say these exact words at the seminar on Friday. BUT I WANT TO.

rakdaddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Anyway, here's more stuff about how Hardin's trash essay was trash: https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth

rakdaddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Whoever the greasy-fingered undergrad fascist Musk will put in charge of gutting the Clear Water Act is gonna be someone who masturbated to "The Tragedy of the Commons" when they were running their school's FedSoc chapter into the ground. I'm putting my marker down now.

rakdaddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Look, if the author of a supposedly influential essay about property theory has a page on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website, you should rethink why it's considered influential:

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/garrett-hardin/

rakdaddy.bsky.social•9 days ago

I have had a night to sleep on this paper I have to write, and I want to pat myself on the back for not writing "GARRETT HARDIN IS TRASH, AND HIS IDEAS ARE TRASH" for three pages.

Seminar's gonna be a treat tomorrow.

fraying.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah it's always cited in community discussions and it makes me want to rip my hair out.

rakdaddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

TRASH, Derek. Pure, unmitigated TRASH.

fraying.bsky.social•10 days ago

This takedown helps.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

glennf.com•10 days ago

Wrong and bad and incorrect!!!!!

rakdaddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

TRASH.

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