I unironically believe both these tweets
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge
Counterpoint: Many *more* of the problems of current political life can be traced to being 'strong' in humanities.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Yes, but that’s because we now teach the humanities *badly*
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge
They're very good at what they do. What they do is catastrophically bad.
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Replying to @St_Rev
This is true of lefty propagandized humanities but not of the humanities qua humanities.
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge
And to which 'humanities' do you think the original tweet refers? Y'all.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Obviously that’s what she means, but it is true that everyone should be educated in the humanities, just in good humanities
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge @St_Rev
it was certainly good for society in the past! or, so our mythology tells us...?
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @EmperorCoolidge
It's an ensemble of zombie subjects arising from the need to create a large scribe class to translate the masses of ancient texts that started arriving in Europe around the 13th century, IIRC. Writing literary criticism is not a skill the average person should value.
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It's a remnant of a vestige of a memory of a corpse. The most prestigious aspects of the humanities are the most useless.
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Fiction is entertainment, not something that warrants a class of professional consumers. Ethics doesn't make people behave better, and may (judging from the behavior of ethicists and philosophers) make them worse.
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