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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 14 May 2019
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      This is very good. Follow it to the end!https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/ …

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    2. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 14 May 2019
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      I was going to make some remarks about the piece but @Meaningness saved me the trouble by making them first

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    3. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 14 May 2019
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      St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻 Retweeted St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻

      The last part of it is eerily relevant to what I was ranting about last night in this thread, though.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1128162464812732416 …

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      St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻 @St_Rev
      One of the big lessons of the 20th century is when a set of institutions produces something desirable, FedGov decides to subsidize the shit out of them, the institutions rearrange themselves to eat the money and stop doing whatever FedGov wanted in the first place.
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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted David Chapman

      I assumed you were subtweet-responding to @KevinSimler in this thread! See also this thread about a piece Kevin recommended that I think you will also like parts of:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1128386849267802112 …

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      OTOH, it’s possible that public awareness of dysfunction may lead to political destruction of the existing institutions before we have anything to replace them with. This scares me a lot. Makes it all the more urgent to get the alternatives up and running soon!
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    5. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 14 May 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler

      Hadn't read Kevin's piece, I was just expanding on 'no, college AND moon shots are bad'

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      Yeah, startling coincidence. NASA delenda est, of course. Universities I’m still somewhat agnostic about. Probably doomed, but it might be just barely not too late to rescue some aspects of them.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev @KevinSimler

      There was a really interesting piece I saw recently about the scientific value of NSF bio-med grants vs Howard Hughes Institute grants. Gigantic difference. I’m forgetting the details (may be able to locate if you are interested) but bureaucratic overhead at NSF was major factor

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    8. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 14 May 2019
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      I think universities are so far gone that it's probably not possible to save them as intact institutions. At best you could carve out chunks of a handful of disciplines, but there's more tumor than tissue. (Apply 'Rev is very depressed' filter to this)

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    9. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 14 May 2019
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      The Wansink case shows that it's possible to be well-funded, highly successful and indeed celebrated, for years, in STEM mode, while being 100% junk. One must assume that the patient's immune system is basically gone.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted  🏴James Heathers  🏴

      Right. OTOH, there are intrepid science reformers who are making surprising headway. Including these guys who exposed Wansink:https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/970081552851001344 …

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       🏴James Heathers  🏴 @jamesheathers
      Me and ya boy @sTeamTraen have roughed up a variety of research, and we are almost never told that we are cranks, weirdos, or monsters. Why? This is why. https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/how-not-to-be-a-crank-819103800502 …
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        1.  🏴James Heathers  🏴‏ @jamesheathers 14 May 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev

          Intrepid-ish.

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