large parts of this are beautiful but enough of it is profoundly wrong that it will not be the essay that Saves America still im glad it was publishedhttps://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1349771077770162178 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I appreciate the link. Read through the essay in it's entirety and I'm left with a bitter aftertaste and a sense that the author is caught in her own tunnel vision in an ironic analog of what she's criticizing. Maybe later I'll write a more detailed critique. Coffee first!
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
alright, caffeinated now and I'll offer a very brief critique. Probably best to keep it short anyway. This is social reductionism, it's the same monocausal bullshit thinking that you so frequently call out. That's what's wrong with her analysis in a nutshell.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
she's grouping together, into a complex that she calls "flatness", a bunch of things that are actually in complex relationships with each other and are not all just manifestations of one underlying thing.
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i wonder what she would have made of the second industrial revolution or the first
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