@TristanSevers I’m preparing to write (tentatively) about politics in the framework of http://meaningness.com/modes-chart . In that schema, >
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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 -
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@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.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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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 -
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@Meaningness "University humanities departments used to teach coherent thought" honestly reads like "In the Golden Era we had wings" to me.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers Hmm… I dunno how old you are, or what your education was like…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness I mean, might be true, but it strains my credibility a lot less to assume we only ever succeeded by spontaneous order/accident.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers Well… I took courses in the Harvard English Department before pomo happened. That was no-nonsense stuff.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@TristanSevers “Why did the poet use that word here” had a right answer and a wrong answer.
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@TristanSevers The right answer might be “it’s an allusion to Cicero’s denunciation of Catiline” and the wrong answer might be >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers > “it’s an objective correlative for the hero’s anger.” “It proves the poet was racist” was not even wrong.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes - 2 more replies
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