2/ I don't believe this. Or, at the very least, I think it's a useless statement. For one, you could just as easily say something like,https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1260594227706093568 …
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3/ More critically, I *want* to believe it, because understanding it as such puts people and positions in places with appropriately cast heroes and villains, geniuses and fools. It's seductive in a way the way that a candle is to a moth.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1260353537315188736 …
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4/ None of this is to say that gross and asymmetrical pathologies don't develop when particular recognizable groups with recognizable ideologies-as-reality-navigating-loss-functions lose the plot. For example, in the US right now, the Evangelical-
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5/ BUT, one of the precipitating factors of that advanced stage of disease is the out of hand rejection of any way of making sense of the world that isn't yours. Your experiences aren't universal. You aren't the only one capable of thinking...
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6/ And it's easy to write and read smart-sounding but ultimately self-soothing bullshit.
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