I would really love to be an American high school English or govt/civics teacher today
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Replying to @tinysubversions
if you tell the kids the processes are all a charade and none of it actually matters you don't have to grade exams
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Replying to @alicemazzy
The rhetoric matters though! That's what I would teach
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Replying to @tinysubversions
dunno about "matters" but I find it most interesting from a like historio-narrative perspective
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tinysubversions
especially stuff like the '09 obama inauguration speech vs trump's
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tinysubversions
the way things they say are grounded in not a modern model of the world but the shadow of a previous model now incoherent
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Replying to @alicemazzy
To be specific, I don't care about "America great shining hill blah blah", I care about the apophasis of "I can't speak in open session"
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Replying to @tinysubversions
see I care about shining city stuff as kitche reference to systems of thought that no longer exist and their genealogy
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tinysubversions
I'm maybe unhealthily obsessed with the idea that we need to construct a new system of meaning-making, or world-idea
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so I fixate lot on understanding whys and wherefores of previous systems and how they broke down yet echo into the present
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