I am completely out of patience with people determined to miss the point & be antagonistic.
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I try to be polite & explain this is complementary to existing approaches (not PoMo ones) & not an attack on them but end up losing temper.
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I've realised that this is the only time I do lose my temper. When ppl are being unreasonable & antagonistic about history & literature
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Coz I think they matter & I want to do them properly & this attitude makes it so bloody difficult. They don't even have to agree with me
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Just not be so bloody threatened & defensive about it & demonstrate this by being deliberately obtuse & obfuscating everything. Arghhhhh!
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I left literary studies precisely because of the foolish resistance to Ev psych that surrounded me. It is rather unfortunate.
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So many world views, particularly in philosophy and lit-crit, rely on ideas of free-will and agency that ev psych and neurology undermine.
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