@maradydd I don’t know the literature on this in detail. The short version is that in the Olden Days when young adults left home, they were>
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@maradydd >inducted into systematic institutions (employment, the military, or a university) which instilled a systematic ethics.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@maradydd Unfortunately, the pomo revolution means that universities no longer do that; and increasingly employers are also accommodating >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@maradydd > communal ethics rather than instilling professional ethics. I’m starting to worry this will lead to the end of civilization :-)2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@maradydd There’s powerful institutional incentives to maintain pomo in universities; it’s hard to see a way to reverse that.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness powerful, yes, but also fully self-contained and fully self-supporting, which has its own precariousness1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness actually@freddiedeboer has gotten into this a bit in his critique of what rhetoric in the academy has (d)evolved into2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness i.e., define yourself entirely in terms of things other fields yield better results on, and you may just define yourself away1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@maradydd > a pomo degree is pragmatically useless, and people that have them are finding employment >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@maradydd > as social critics within productive institutions.
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@maradydd > But since that’s parasitic, the number of such employment opportunities can’t be large enough to support the graduating pipeline0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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