It is this perception of a gap that I wish to address. It seems it must exist because most people don't read this shit so can academia really be that influential? Compare to religion. Can religious ideas become culturally dominant when <1% of the population studied theology? Yes.https://twitter.com/Bugs_Meany/status/980820958972989440 …
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If I were to grab any one of you westerners who have never read Augustine of Hippo and ask you specific questions about your values & beliefs, you would be amazed to find how many of them trace back to Augustine of Hippo.
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Of course, they trace back further than that because he was knowledgeable in so much philosophy from so many sources and continents. But he brought a load of this stuff together & brought it to the west where it became established in religion, law, ethics, philosophy & developed.
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Something happened in France in the 1960s. None of the ideas were new but they came together in a radical break in epistemology which was initially ignored by the vast majority of the population but which evolved, became user-friendly & tapped into a liberal progressive zeitgeist
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OK, I am not going to write this book on Twitter. I am going to walk my dogs and get some work done. I need to go away for a few days again and focus.
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I don't think you're super into youtube but vids like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nmxnmt_XU … ... people like
@chescaleigh or@gogreen18 played a big role. Videos like that getting mass shares on facebook/twitter. That's what happened to me...@gogreen18 might be a good person to talk to. -
btw i used to be an indoctrinated feminist... and I know indoctrinated is a strong term, but that's really what it felt like. Like i was brainwashed.
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