Yup. I was dismayed to read a 1960 article that presaged a number of the objections people have written books about wih regard to a topic that didn't even exist in 1960. It's like, jeez, modern people, can't you at least be creatively wrong?
(Though I hear that viewed through the lens of a developmental psychologist, reading some natural philosophy is the same way. Sigh.)
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Date: 2005-02-19 10:19 pm (UTC)(Though I hear that viewed through the lens of a developmental psychologist, reading some natural philosophy is the same way. Sigh.)