Star Wars and other fandoms are a kind of superstimulus which have done very real damage to science and culture by siphoning autistic obsession away from genuine knowledge. The amateur scholars of previous centuries would be compiling lists of Jedi in the expanded universe today.
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If you read Renaissance philosophy you will discover that they were doing exactly this
1:52 PM - 4 Feb 2018
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