Counterpoint: Many *more* of the problems of current political life can be traced to being 'strong' in humanities.
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"make" is exactly the right word, too -- & it'd be one thing if what the critics were reading in were at least as interesting as what's already there on "naive" view, preferably more, but they rarely manage that either
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at this point I'd rather hear from a random sample of normal people abt their fav tv show, seems there're better odds of finding sth of value there. litcrit is either failing hard in its most basic function, or ... isn't actually about serving literature or its audiences at all
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It's about showing how Seinfeld actually glorifies the divinity of Christ. Hasn't been anything else during most of my lifetime.
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eh, ime there are honorable outliers here and there but they tend not to survive long in academia and either eventually just have to get out however they can or were never really in it in the first place
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Gass, bc he still writes essays of the form "hey y'all probably don't know [obscure novelist] but they're really good, here's who they are & why they're good" that succeed in motivating me to check out [novelist] and agreeing with him, which hardly anyone even tries anymore
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