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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 13 Dec 2015

    U Chicago Lit Prof argues that the ideology of lit-crit and English departments is creating sociopaths.http://thepointmag.com/2015/criticism/when-nothing-is-cool …

    3:40 PM - 13 Dec 2015
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      2. Danielle Fong ...天方鄺芳象形天... 💗‏ @DanielleFong 14 Dec 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @pmarca the reading of modern lit crit as "paranoid reading" is incisive, ironic

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      3. Neil Kandalgaonkar‏ @flipzagging 14 Dec 2015
        Replying to @DanielleFong

        @DanielleFong @sapinker @pmarca Paranoia: belief in hidden intent. Lit crit: forget intent of author; can we reinterpret to subvert society?

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      4. Danielle Fong ...天方鄺芳象形天... 💗‏ @DanielleFong 14 Dec 2015
        Replying to @flipzagging

        @flipzagging @sapinker @pmarca an even more cynical reading!

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      1. Harry MacDougald‏ @HarryMacD 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker The revolution devours itself. If only someone had known ahead of time that nihilism would lead to misery.

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      1. Paul Jargowsky‏ @Paul_Jargowsky 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker causality questionable. Maybe sociopaths are drawn to and shape lit-crit.

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      1. Pablo Petrucci‏ @pabpetrucci 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker in absence of strict science + math, & presence of deep economic insecurity most face outside STEM & Commerce, it can get tribal

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      1. Candelario Rump‏ @candelario_rump 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Can writings be sociopathic? How about when the author is an NYU Professor of Plastic Surgery?: http://messageboards.makemeheal.com/chin-jaw-implants/sliding-genioplasty-doctors-t164389.html?sid=b77fcda1eae43cc00088abb16f60eee9 …

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      1. Chuck Dotson‏ @chuck_late 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @pmarca Fascinating on multiple levels. What's funny is the critique is proffered in Marxist concerns about the establishment.

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      1. Pablo Petrucci‏ @pabpetrucci 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker although the favoring of sociopaths is not unique to the humanities, practically a requirement for an MBA

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      1. Hasan M‏ @Hasmanean 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @pmarca Oral poetry evolved forms to make it hard to forget. Maybe modern writing must evolve forms which are immune to criticism.

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      1. Carey Haug‏ @haug_carey 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Sounds like pseudo profound BS to me.

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      1. Atul Singh‏Verified account @atulabhas 15 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Agree: I dropped out of English literature because I found theory to be pretentious bunkum of second rate intellects.

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      1. Ryan Connolly‏ @dispatchtv 15 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @pmarca Race to the obscure in search of originality + Small Western canon = Emotional clearcutting

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      1. Richard Atkinson‏ @Bronowskiite 14 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Thanks - great link. The academic world - not only lit crit - has largely lost touch with human worth and endeavour.

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      1. Paul Harland‏ @PabloRedux 14 Dec 2015
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        Paul Harland Retweeted Jose Afonso Furtado

        Guess Eng Lit can survive @sapinker by analysing stats. But objectivity & Science can be just as bad at moral codes!https://twitter.com/jafurtado/status/675450182943789056 …

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        Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado
        Phillip Rogaway's "The moral character of cryptographic work", by Cory Doctorow @doctorow /Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2015/12/09/the-moral-character-of-cryptog.html …
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      1. Paul Harland‏ @PabloRedux 14 Dec 2015
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        I'm not the best person to try to defend Eng Lit, modern or otherwise @sapinker Don't study books - just read them! But why pick on Eng Lit?

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      1. Evan Walter‏ @the_agrippa 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @Will_Antonin @imbalance4

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      1. Luis Alis・ルイス‏ @luisalisferrer 13 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Ya tengo qué leer en la pausa de la merienda de madrugada.

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