Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

In honest fact, using the phrase “Neo-Darwinian Sociology” is actually an act of extreme politeness on my part, because the more concise phrase would be “Social Darwinism”, the age-old and known horrible theory without a shit-eating, disingenuous and self-consciously pious denunciation of which, no pop EP book is complete. (Matt Ridley, I’m looking at you. Daniel Dennet, you can wipe that smile off your face too). It’s kind of like the paramilitary wing of evolutionary psychology; the default position of a serious ethologist when confronted with the possibility of earning a quick two hundred quid for 400 words on some current issue in the Sunday papers (Richard Dawkins, I’m looking at you, and pointing at you). Basically, in so far as these pieces have any message which doesn’t consist of laughing at people more intelligent than the author for believing in God, the message boils down to […]