I think insight is the focus of a Certain Tiny Internet Community and perhaps one gets tired of it eventually. In the wider civilizational context, we're drowning in information (but people don't bother to look) and starved for insight (though there's a glut of TEDshit).
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There's no easy way to trace IRL back to theory. It's not some straight line from "insight!" to application. For any apparently great application, you can trace the same insight to mountains more of garbage.
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Georg Simmel had brilliant insights. They've percolated through the exchange of ideas, even though they haven't had direct applications. But I know that they're not just fluff. https://www.waggish.org/2014/georg-simmels-philosophy-of-money/ …
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