Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Value reflects killcount
Uncommon Descent reports that some of Darwin's handwritten notebooks are missing and presumed stolen from the British National Museum. The notebooks are "worth millions".
UD snarkily proposes that the books must have randomly mutated away from the museum, since an assumption of theft would imply PURPOSE.
I found the value more interesting. Would notebooks from Wheatstone or Ohm be equally valuable? I doubt it.
Among document collectors, valuation tends to reflect the aristocracy of the subject. Rarity is also a factor, but a rare document by a peasant, or a document connected to peasants, has no value.
For instance, a rare 1930 advertising brochure for Duesenberg is much more expensive than a rare 1930 brochure for Chevy. The product belongs to rich people, so everything related to the product has value.
When I was building a replica of Hubbard's E-Meter, I looked on Ebay for books by the inventor Volney Mathison. His books were up in the $500 range. Similar vaguely mystical self-help books by non-Hubbard authors were in the $10 range.
All books and documents related to Hubbard's cult are unduly expensive. Why? Because Hubbard's cultists are rich and important people.
The same rule applies to Darwin. His cultists are rich and important people. True from the start, because DarwinISM has always been a weapon used by the rich to kill the poor.
Value reflects killcount.
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