the creation of an intellectual eLiTe that gets negligible exposure to the history of western civilization and intellectual history in particular is probably the greatest curse of our time I am so mad about this instead we have distribution requirements in psychology good god
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the concentration of history into subdisciplines is separately but further deeply cursed
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especially mad that I more or less had to seek out such knowledge of my own volition rather than having it suggested as a course of action to me my high school AP european history course was a better introduction to the world than anything I took at University maaaaaaad mad mad
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most intellectually-fruitful use of my free time i have ever madehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1259372865742200833?s=19 …
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spent some time learning about madame de staël tonightpic.twitter.com/BndLFKyOFv
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one interesting thing about the revolutionary era is that french elites basically didnt believe in themselves anymore when the revolution came but the english did fine i guess the bourgeoisie had already basically won there and was well-integrated into the elite hmmm
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still kind of incoherent but present era feels more similar to the late 18C to me than eg early 20C, much more first industrial revolution than second suspect american students are very badly served by focusing so much on ww2 instead of the Napoleonic wars
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And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon impovrished repenters? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic datacenters?
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the Durants really didnt understand Blake though unfortunately
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haven't quite gotten to him yet . . . i think what did they miss with him?
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they basically view him as a footnote in the history of English Romantic poetry they also dont seem to view his visionary works as really worth examining
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