I'll disagree with you there - I actually find feelings to be enormously important, and something that should be taken seriously in political and academic discussions. Meaning comes from feelings after all. But as always, we have to know what we're talking about.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Aya62335284 and
Well THIS GUY'S feelings in particular are just very annoying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I'll actually take this further What people like this are mad about isn't truth, it's comfort Their sense of the world based on half understood textbook knowledge is very important to them and they don't want it disturbed by ideas they don't understand
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
Yeah, that's absolutely on point. The experience of a world where understanding is always slipping through your fingers is, after all, discomfiting. I'm not happy about it either.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Aya62335284 and
I talked before about the episode of Jim Henson's Dinosaurs where Charlyne begins trying to prove the Earth is round rather than flat and the government charges her with heresy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And Earl goes on TV and starts demanding she stop this nonsense and come home at once With his lower third caption reading "IRATE FATHER"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And then he goes on about how if the authorities say she's wrong she must be wrong because they know better than us because that's what they're for And the whole world is built on the understanding that they know what's best and who'd want to tear all that down
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Because the way things are is pretty damn good and only an ungrateful brat would oppose it just for attention And even... if it weren't always the best thing... you don't know what would replace it if it were gone You wouldn't know what to do, you wouldn't know ANYTHING
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Even if you're unhappy and scared and exhausted all the time just trying to stay alive... at least you have certainty At least you wake up every day and you know you're living in the same world you went to bed in
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
You have SO LITTLE, it feels like you're barely holding on, and they want to take even that away, to kick away every support and leave you floating free, and then you'll have NOTHING
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And they quietly slowly change his lower third from "IRATE FATHER" to "AUTHORITARIAN STOOGE" to "KNEEJERK DEFENDER OF STATUS QUO" to "TERRIFIED SOUL, GAZING INTO ABYSS"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
(It was those unexpected Real As Hell moments that I loved the show for, like Earl really is the deepest and most sympathetic take on a Homer Simpson stereotype I've ever seen He's a bad person because he's a weak person and deep down he knows it)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
See also: his racism against four legged dinosaurs
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