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The real problem here is the obsession with attribution.

Ideas ring either true, or they ring false. They either withstand scrutiny, or they do not. They are either meaningful and insightful, or they are not.

Adding a dash, followed by a famous name, does not make an idea more true. Adding a picture of a marble statue does not make the idea immune to criticism. Lacking such decorations does not rob an idea of meaning or insight. Nor even do false decorations, deliberate or accidental, turn a good idea into a bad one.

Focus on what is being said. Stop obsessing or depending on who said. It doesn't matter who said it.

Attributions are a courtesy. Nothing more. Shame anyone who acts as if they affect the merit of an idea, in any way, positively or negatively.

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You're absolutely right, but people gravitate towards the appeal of notoriety.

Good comment.

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They do, and none of our glorified ape brains are immune to that.

All the more important to periodically remind ourselves, and others.