https://www.isegoria.net/2026/07/they-have-a-name-for-it-because-it-is-so-incredibly-common/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2026/07/they-have-a-name-for-it-because-it-is-so-incredibly-common/comment-page-1/#comment-3762583 Gaikokumaniakku Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:01:40 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54490#comment-3762583 The 19th century glorified robber-baron capitalism along with other myths of individual heroes. They forgot that Newton said he was standing on the shoulders of giants — and of course they also forgot that when Newton said that, he was referencing a long string of writers who had used the phrase for hundreds of years, back to Bernard of Chartres: “We are like dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”

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