The one persistent thing I have against the intellectual dark web, besides the ridiculous name and the shoddy science, is the choice of enemies.
Whatever I do, and wherever I go in life, being defined by my opposition to neo-Marxist university professors sounds like a bad time.
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mostly agree, but if you try to make your living inside academia, or in the many areas of public life where these folks have made inroads, being confronted with authoritarian nonsense can be a real hardship. treating them with benign indifference has only encouraged them.
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web-celebrities making hay out of it strikes a rather false note, though, since they often have reactionariy agendas of their own.
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Gonna call that a qualified agreement.
I'd go a bit further, inasmuch as I think it's a total red herring on their part, but yes.
I haven't really seen any Lindsey Stirling types take their issues outside of academia (as if they applied universally). In-context, it's fair game.
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Only think I'm not sure of, is whether it's a *deliberate* red herring, or sign of some kind of obessional neurosis. I found this very insightful: facebook.com/OrthodoxHereti
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"So as not to offend anybody, we'll offend everybody."
Wow, got me right in the MO.
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Thorough.
I'm not really sure how I feel about psychoanalysis as a framing device.
I tend more towards behavioral agnosticism (or something) - people do things for reasons that may be meaningful, but we can't easily apprehend those internal reasons.