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Bloomberg Opinion writer. Elected "top neoliberal shill" of 2018. Occasionally posts anime gifs.

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    1. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      Confession: I haven't the slightest interest in my genetic ancestry or where my ancestors came from or what they did.

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    2. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I mean, my dad's family came from Lithuania. They changed their name from Kuznets in 1905. At some point they were blacksmiths. My mom's family came from Halychyna in Ukraine. I have no idea what they did. That's about all I know.

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    3. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      Oh, I do know that pretty much all of my extended family who stayed in Europe got wiped out by the Nazis.

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    4. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I like to think that my ancestors were nothing and nobody. Random boring peasants with no special talents or wealth. Except for Genghis Khan, of course. But he's everyone's ancestor.

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    5. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      The best thing about this approach is that I don't have anything to live up to. ;-) (end)

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    6. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      (more) But, you know, I actually am really proud of my ancestors. I'm just not proud of my *personal* ancestors for being better than the ancestors of other people (which they probably weren't). I'm proud of the ancestors of all humanity.

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    7. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I'm proud of the humans who found a way over the bloody centuries to lift themselves up out of agricultural indigence. Who found ways to wrench away from nature, bit by agonizing, confusing bit, the secrets of how the world actually works, and to preserve that knowledge.

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    8. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I'm proud of the humans who found a way to carve out a civilized safe space for (at least some) humans, so that now at least some people can grow up without the thing we call "PTSD", which was once the universal and natural human condition.

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    9. Noam‏ @NoamJStein Oct 15
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      Where did you get this idea from?

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      Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15
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      David Brin books.

      10:40 PM - 15 Oct 2018
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        1. James R Williamson‏ @jrwill9 Oct 16
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          PTSD being the natural condition doesn’t sound plausible to me. Having traumatic memories, sure, but not to the point of causing daily dysfunction. That wouldn’t be adaptive.

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