Marx and Engels lived their entire lives in the 1800s. For them not to know what other relevant people of their time looked like makes infinitely more sense than someone with today’s incredible information access. IMO someone today who has genuinely studied the material would have seen enough of these people in articles to recognize more than the most famous few I mentioned. I think far too many people get too much “information” from memes and pretend to know more than they know. If all you’ve got is a strawman analogy about band t-shirts, well alrighty then.
I don’t know about you, but when I took classes on this stuff we weren’t like, staring at the pictures of the authors. We were talking about the material. The faces I picture in my head when I think of this stuff aren’t the people who wrote the books we read and discussed, it’s my professors and the people who were in my classes.
Nobody like, stares at the pictures, but if people like, actually studied and digested the source material instead of glancing at amusing blurbs and telling themselves they’re smart, they would be able to express more complex, coherent thoughts about things like politics and economics and post fewer memes and “capitalism bad!” chants that fill most threads. In spite of unparalleled access to information and in spite of educations they’ll be paying for until death, modern liberals are collectively as lazy-minded as conservatives. They just respond to different stimuli to trigger cheering, booing, and pressing BUY buttons.
Marx and Engels lived their entire lives in the 1800s. For them not to know what other relevant people of their time looked like makes infinitely more sense than someone with today’s incredible information access. IMO someone today who has genuinely studied the material would have seen enough of these people in articles to recognize more than the most famous few I mentioned. I think far too many people get too much “information” from memes and pretend to know more than they know. If all you’ve got is a strawman analogy about band t-shirts, well alrighty then.
I don’t know about you, but when I took classes on this stuff we weren’t like, staring at the pictures of the authors. We were talking about the material. The faces I picture in my head when I think of this stuff aren’t the people who wrote the books we read and discussed, it’s my professors and the people who were in my classes.
Nobody like, stares at the pictures, but if people like, actually studied and digested the source material instead of glancing at amusing blurbs and telling themselves they’re smart, they would be able to express more complex, coherent thoughts about things like politics and economics and post fewer memes and “capitalism bad!” chants that fill most threads. In spite of unparalleled access to information and in spite of educations they’ll be paying for until death, modern liberals are collectively as lazy-minded as conservatives. They just respond to different stimuli to trigger cheering, booing, and pressing BUY buttons.
Yeah, that’s the part I agree with you on. I just don’t think recognizing pictures is a meaningful metric as far as that’s concerned.