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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Oct 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted John Ganz

    This is in fact one of the deepest divides on twitter, which transcends the political divide & is more fundamental. Some people see the world as a narrative (an are thus alive to absurdity of incidents) while others more earnestly see it as always illustrative of principle.https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1318548908470095875 …

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    John Ganz @lionel_trolling
    When people without a sense of humor encounter the absurd they think they have to wring a matter of principle out of it instead of just laughing
    7:33 AM - 20 Oct 2020
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      2. Alex Colston‏ @re_colston 20 Oct 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        pretty clever of you guys to launder your own set of principles this way.

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      3. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 20 Oct 2020
        Replying to @re_colston @HeerJeet

        dont lump me in as you guys

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      1. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 20 Oct 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        yeah I think its kind of like the dialectic of the beautiful soul in the phenom of spirit, here described by Pinkardpic.twitter.com/xciSPICTl3

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      1. DoctorMillennial, PhD‏ @Doctor_MPhD 20 Oct 2020
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        meta

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      2. Russell Brandom‏Verified account @russellbrandom 20 Oct 2020
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        What if events have inherent moral weight (“a man who wails is not a dancing bear,” per Cesaire) without being chained to some broader principle?

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      3. Russell Brandom‏Verified account @russellbrandom 20 Oct 2020
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        In more basic terms, we can take things seriously without being horribly about it. Nihilism and moralizing are not the only options!

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      1. BargainNanny‏ @OpposibleThumbs 20 Oct 2020
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        Marxism fortunately is a framework that allows both positions, as tragedy repeats as farce

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      1. Frankie  🍔‏ @frankieg_baby 20 Oct 2020
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        pic.twitter.com/06o23J2Zyw

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      1. Steven I. Weiss‏Verified account @steveniweiss 20 Oct 2020
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        This sounds like a difference around existentialism vs inherent meaning An existentialist has no problem laughing at the absurd, because at bottom there is not meaning An essentialist/idealist/etc. needs to find meaning at the bottom of it all, and negotiates instead of laughs

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      2. Ben Pike‏ @_benpike_ 20 Oct 2020
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        Some people watch coen brothers movies, some don’t

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Oct 2020
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        it's a good litmus test, yes.

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