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Theory: if the humanities had had a stronger hand in shaping the Internet we either would not have an Internet or a far worse Internet. To err is human, and to truly mess things up you need engineers, but to turn things into a catastrophic mess you need to add the humanists.
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Theory: We need more engineers who tell their engineer friends they are humanists, and less people who cannot see how interrelated it all is.
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That's not a theory, it's an unfalsifiable hypothesis based not on observation, but on this creepy new wave of anti-intellectualism aimed at the liberal end of academia. You have nothing to back this up. It's just fascist-lite fuckwittery. Oh yea - I'm a web-dev with a BSc
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Examples of "the humanists" having turned some development into a "catastrophic mess"? Counterexample: humanist university departments tend to be cozy, welcoming & moderately well-organized places. Not too "productive" maybe, but nowhere near catastrophic IME.
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Thanks for that tweet. I've been following you for a few months to figure out if there was any "there" there, and this helped tip the balance
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