Tweeps! This is the one you absolutely must read! It explains so much and I will be quoting it lots. It needs reading slowly and with full concentration but is clear and well...right.https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/972681293405106176 …
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The points he’s trying to make, yes. Those are good, once they’ve been exhumed. The style? No; I appreciate plain speech. I despise obscurantist or opaque language when plain speech will suffice. Funnily enough, I did NOT do well in high school English.
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The problem was that was a struggle to read - compared to your writings or Pinker’s or Haidt, it was downright painful. I was serious when I said extracts could’ve appeared in Sokal and Bricmont’s Intellectual Impostures to be lampooned.
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But wrong. Nothing anti scientific here. They were fine with poetic language.
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Not anti-scientific, no; but very obscurantist. The sort of language Dawkins holds up to ridicule in his review of their work.
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Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree. I loved the language. It means precisely what It says tho its unfamiliar to some. No need for any condemnation of it. Ppl can persevere or not.
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I get you; it's just as I said before, I have an instinctive and deep-seated dislike of such prose due to bitter experience with it.
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It seems you are not alone. I will enjoy such writing in private in future.
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You should still publish them because some people clearly like them a lot. You can’t please everyone all the time. We shouldn’t expect you to.
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I agree. Plus, you said your goal was to reach that small group that would like it a lot. So, in light of that, it did exactly what it should do.
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It would definitely do that; it’s a shame that hitting the rest of us looks to be mutually exclusive. Which is telling in and of itself.
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Yes. I'm afraid so. I personally like this style to stay in poetry or fiction. But I do respect the catering to a different group of people. I've decided to look at it as such.
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That’s the saving grace for me - otherwise I’d have condemned it to a bonfire of the inanities.
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Phew. Good! ;)
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