We comfortable chatterati live in a intellectual milieu of joyless countergrievance axe-grinding, laboring under a facade of casual inquiry. I can’t recall the last time I encountered somebody thinking an imaginative, discourse-expanding thought on a difficult, risky topic.
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And yeah, I am as much a part of this across-the-board failure of the self-styled intellectual classes as anyone. People are at best either thinking imaginatively about risk-free safe topics or with zero imagination about difficult topics. Failure of nerve AND imagination
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Original thought outside the Overton Window is promptly pitchfork-mobbed into oblivion. Not a failure, but a result of the math of social media currency: moar outrage-inducing content --> moar “engagement” --> moar likes, followers, scalps, knee-bends, and ring-kisses
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The self-styled “taboo busting” types who ignore the Overton window and are cheered on by the alt-Overton-window crowd have been even more unimaginative. It’s not the pitchforks. That’s just a convenient excuse.
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