OK! This piece which many of you have found difficult and some of you have become quite annoyed with. It addresses postmodern ideas in its own language but whereas postmodernism seeks to complicate & confuse, this piece seeks to show the workings. 1 of many.https://twitter.com/thesadredearth/status/972840550717181952 …
We have plenty of those tho. That's simple enough. That one was a bit special tho.
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The Economist regularly has to explain comparative advantage (much harder conceptually) to the ‘educated general reader’. The ideas here are not particularly complex and the job could be done in clear, comprehensible prose.
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Yes, of course it could. There's nothing easier than clear, comprehensible prose.
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We can all do that. I can do that. I can't do what A. Jay did but I can love it and want him to do more of it. Even if it won't reach a wide audience and there has to be two versions, I hope he'll keep doing it & link it to a simple description.
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That you can’t produce word salad like that speaks well of you as a writer. I probably could because I have a flair for parody, but I wouldn’t want to.
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Well, we'll have to agree to disagree about that. But it doesn't matter much. Nothing more pointless than arguing about things that give others aesthetic pleasure. We can just read something else.
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