Reading annual thing made me realize why I had an instinctive aversion to letter dot wiki. The mannered faux-genteel 18th-century republic-of-letters vibe is too jarring for me. The Well is 35 years old but feels fresher (both form/content) than this “Dear Joe” larping.
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It also drives home the point that the most interesting long-running conversations do NOT have “debate”, let alone “civil debate” as the thing being solved for. Makes me suspect modern conservatives are cargo cutting an Enlightenment discourse model that never was. Booorring.
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It’s partly being good at conversations as a medium of course. Sterling has been doing this for a long time and has a talent for keeping it “live”. Still, deliberately mimicking old media is asking for an acting dead vibe. I don’t know why products go that route.
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