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.
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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.
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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.
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By contrast, this kind of "criticism" is much more bearable.https://twitter.com/TricoteuseToo/status/1050022076155916294 …
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I'm not anti-intellectual. But if I were, it would be because of uppity douchebags looking for a way to prove they know better instead of making the effort to know better through proof.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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