This is probably something I shouldn't admit, since it devalues my archives, but I have this vague sense of consciously working to "retire" an old online persona and trying to incubate a new one, just as a lot more people are beginning to discover it
Conversation
Replying to
There's a lot to be said about creating relatively static content for people to mull over. If the humanities have anything going for them, it's certainly that people can look back at, say, Hume's collected work and take it as a whole without worrying about what he'll do next
2
1
Replying to
That's taking them at their own lofty self-perceptions. I think people vastly overstate the value of words in general. It's a kind of unwarranted veneration.
True enough, but it *is* pretty great to be able to interact with something vaguely like someone else's thoughts, without actually having to interact with *them*.
2


