You’re quite right, as mostly, but here are a few comments:
- The NYT piece was originally a sort of graphical caper, neither article nor comic. The logic of the interconnections it made was way open to interpretation, but why write/draw such a piece if you’re not hinting at causation? I think the NYT was. You may disagree (but you’d be wrong).
My comment was based solely on the connection between Moon and Mass-Market-Sushi. Did M cause M-M-S (as I allege the NYT alleges), or did M-M-S happen organically, independent of M, as I allege?
- On our good pal Edison, I suggest two scenarios:
A] Edison invented the light bulb. The light bulb proliferated.
(Had he not invented it, others would’ve, maybe later. True dat.)
B) Edison mass-marketed sushi (not invented it). Mass-market sushi proliferated.
(Had he not, others proliferated it, at the same time. True dat.)
Should Eddy get credit for scenario B?
Totally off-topic: I find the increasing straight-jacketing this board imposes on how you may format posts increasingly irksome. But I’ll take that up elsewhere.