https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve … ahh this is great, somebody tell me why this is not great
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Replying to @djmicrobeads
hmmm its kind of making me like him more to the extent i can do such a thing within my bounds of detaching from DISCOURSE like big ideas are actually dumb and boring and wrong small ideas are more likely to be helpful and good
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Replying to @eigenrobot @djmicrobeads
"this guy is just saying obviously true things" wait thats what if thats good i think i prefer it to things that are obviously not true or devoid of content you know?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @djmicrobeads
a lot of this essay is "jorbadn petadsrn is not signalling being smart so hes probably dumb" while I agree that hes probably dumb im not convinced of the value of such signaling
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Replying to @eigenrobot
it's not that at all rly! the essay says he is successful at signalling smartness, i mean the third para is basically a list of famous smart people and various media saying how smart and visionary he is.
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Replying to @djmicrobeads @eigenrobot
I see the article rather as an indictment of the public’s intelligence, not Peterson’s.
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If you have been paying attention, you have noticed that the last generation of public intellectuals are all dead or so advanced in years that we will soon lose them. What we get to console us is a generation of lightweight public intellectuals, because we are mainly undiscerning
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