I wish people would learn the history of perennial debates, so they know they are just wasting time repeating points already-made which led into rabbit-holes. In other words, I wish Twitter had some continuity from the days of usenet; and usenet back to the pre-Socratics.
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when a debate has been going on for a very long time it's that much harder even to get embedded enough to be able to say something meaningful and not just pure ego boosting or signaling game.
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1/Excellent points! In a sense, the debate becomes an "organism" beyond the grasp of any individual participant. I'd add that the dynamic extends even beyond pure egotism: when one has taken a debate "into their body," such that they can play any role [hence their individual ego
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2/has been sublimated into the terms of debate itself], this can lead to recurrence of the debate at yet another plane, as others also transcend the old debate and then begin debating at the meta-level of attempting to pick the right role at the right time, etc. infinitum.
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