My timeline just got a lot more bearable by muting all the people waffling obscurantistly and completely beside the point. These are the ones who bother me the most because they're usually smart people who could engage substantively and valuably if they chose.
-
-
This is usually done to derail plainly spoken conversations about issues that are having a real impact on society right now. The key to this is to not engage with it or allow yourself to get taken off course into irresolvable abstractions.
Show this thread -
This will result in being called 'anti-intellectual' but, in reality, people can apply their intellects to many different topics most effectively and it is perfectly reasonable to decide not to spend yours on obscure and irresolvable philosophical/theological/postmodern concepts.
Show this thread -
If we want to know, say, how certain ideas about truth and knowledge have evolved over the last 50 years & are affecting society, we do not need to have solved the problem of accessing knowledge via human senses & brains or have read everything every philosopher ever said abt it.
Show this thread -
By contrast, this kind of "criticism" is much more bearable.https://twitter.com/TricoteuseToo/status/1050022076155916294 …
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
I think the obscuritism is worthy of an Areo article? I am reminded how the prolific polymath Noam Chomsky says he can't understand a damn thing the postmodernists say.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
It's like they are rationalizing for conclusion they have already reached emotionally or something.pic.twitter.com/tnZAozlQow
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.