let's play a game. in one tweet only (no threading or linking!) how would you describe the crux of the problem of American society in 2020?
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Replying to @danlistensto
the commerce clause being surgically opened and left to fester as a gaping wound
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Replying to @literalbanana @danlistensto
but it’s been festering for like 100 years... why only recently did it turn for the worse?
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Replying to @KevinSimler @danlistensto
there’s a type of causation I’ve been thinking about lately from phenomenology (“Fundierung”) that’s about things as conditions of possibility, “letting” rather than “forcing”
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I didn’t know this term; sounds important; hope you write about it! What are the standard discussions in phenomenology, do you know?
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the two I’m working from now are Rota (from Indiscrete Thoughts and his 1998 lectures) - feels like the next horrible word explication essay in the pipeline
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Replying to @literalbanana @Meaningness and
I read indiscrete thoughts back in the day but I don’t recall this at all... it was mostly math anecdotes iirc? Was this a big part or mentioned in passing?
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Replying to @vgr @Meaningness and
there’s a lot of phenomenology in there, and a tearjerker essay about Stanislaw Ulam that I’m very attached to
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Just reviewed toc. Looks like I blanked out the entire part 2 on philosophy from memory hmm 
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