I officially register an objection to the term ‘intellectual dark web’. It’s not dark. They aren’t intellectuals. They’re sophists - selling second hand phrases and sayings, packaged to make those buying them feel good. We should call it the car boot sale of conservative opinion.
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This seems to me the problem from the start. Who are the members of this IDW. I read that Helen was a members and if so, she certainly doesn't fit Alan's labels.
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There was a list of about 15 people but the term gets thrown around a lot and tends to include different people depending on the values of the speaker and whether they regard it positively or not.
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Leftists who like it will make it swing left by including more leftists & chopping off the most conservative & conservatives will do the opposite. If inclined to dislike it, an individual will make it include the worst elements on the other side and condemn the whole lot.
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What about the genre or the social function/relationships makes this either 'dark' or 'intellectual'?
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??? I don't care about the name.
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Well, when names are part of a claim about the nature of a thing then they are worth caring about. But this is mostly about form and function - and I’m getting no answers on that, only complaints that it’s unfair and mean of me to reject a name.
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You are? I didn't see that so can't comment. I don't care what you think of the name. This seems to be a subjective thing. I don't like it either. I'm more concerned about labelling intellectually & politically diverse people as a way to reject all of them. Tribalism.
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Well, this all started with me registering an objection to a name. On the other hand, if we can’t use single terms to name classes of things then we can’t get very far in thinking about them.
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