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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Non-Toxic Avenger 🗽 🍕

      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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      Non-Toxic Avenger 🗽 🍕 @Bugs_Meany
      Replying to @HPluckrose
      The problem as it seems to me: The gap between academic ideas, and social manifestations, are vast. Most ardent Socialists have never read Marx. Most ardent Libertarians have never read von Hayek or Mises. Most Feminists have never read Judith Butler, etc....
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      It is a mistake to think of postmodernism's influence as jumping straight from the utterances of, say, Judith Butler, into the brain of the average person with a liberal social conscience. That is not how it works. The epistemological shift is much deeper & more diffuse.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      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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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      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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        1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          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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        1. Non-Toxic Avenger 🗽 🍕‏ @Bugs_Meany Apr 2
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          I think my point is that the nut of the issue is hidden inside of the statement: "initially ignored, but which evolved" its about the evolution of group-thinking, not narrow academic-origins of ideas Hoffer, basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer …

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