@TristanSevers > for which there’s no replacement currently imaginable.
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@Meaningness This is why I perversely want price-controlled "free college". Imaginations will fire up quick when the funds dry up.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Not sure that term strictly applies here. We already have the full disaster, monetary incentives are just against fixing it.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Disaster, afaict, hit when we flooded out the "optimate" class from their schools in the post-war period.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Total failure of leadership to reproduce. Hence why we're stuck picking between 3 people who will all be our oldest president.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers I’m preparing to write (tentatively) about politics in the framework of http://meaningness.com/modes-chart . In that schema, >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers the Boomer generation is the last that is capable of operating systematically, and we still have systematic states—2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@TristanSevers —although this election cycle suggests that is breaking down. With no replacement in sight, which is rather scary.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@TristanSevers Starting from late in Gen X, there seem to be few people (outside STEM) who can think coherently.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@TristanSevers There’s genuine strengths in the new ways of thinking, but coherence has to be added back in if we’re going to survive.
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@TristanSevers University humanities departments did used to teach coherent thought; now they seek to destroy it—and have succeeded.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like - 9 more replies
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