Geoffrey Miller on Twitter: "Wannabe journalists studying Western Civ in college: 'Why should we have to learn terms from Greek tragedies like hubris, hamartia, nemesis, peripeteia, or anagnorisis? Concepts from 500 BC aren't relevant!' Journalists in 2020 writing about gov't responses to pandemics: 'Oh.'… https://t.co/QfAJTSPC4W"

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Wannabe journalists studying Western Civ in college: 'Why should we have to learn terms from Greek tragedies like hubris, hamartia, nemesis, peripeteia, or anagnorisis? Concepts from 500 BC aren't relevant!' Journalists in 2020 writing about gov't responses to pandemics: 'Oh.'pic.twitter.com/aX69HPnGAn

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1. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Mar 15
  
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  PS not holding my breath for anagnorisis.
  
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1. willowbarcelona‏ @willowbarcelona Mar 15
  
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  Add: what we didn’t learn from the Roman Empire, whose demise was hastened by their outsourcing wheat production to Egypt and pottery production and other daily products etc to Northern Africa.
  
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1. Hotel Whiskey Three‏ @HotelWhiskeyIII Mar 15
  
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  Catastrophe!
  
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  Trump’s hubris is arguably his hamartia, which is unlikely to result in anagnorisis, but will likely lead to a perepeteia for our country.
  
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  Today, I'm not sure what the most popular conception of vice is, but it isn't hubris, unfortunately.
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