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Not that I’d want to defend Ezra Klein, but “there’s an entire field of study” has always seemed to me to be a dumb whine. I mean if I write a future speculations article, astrologers could make that complaint. The value of a field must be demonstrated, not just asserted.
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I don’t care if a thousand idiots in a captured academic field of mutual congratulation are writing journal articles at each other using a self-important internal lingo. If you can’t demonstrate your relevance in *public* terms of reference you deserve to be ignored.
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Not just accessible but relevant. Engineering has a natural advantage in that tech produces artifacts you can use whether or not you understand how they work. I don’t need you to study navier stokes equations before complaining about airlines. The airplane itself is “relevance”
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I think I’ve read pieces by a couple of people in the thread, yes. But my basic attitude is: leave your credentials and references to your prestigious field and profound work at the door when you enter the public arena. Show me what I can value without all that.
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That is not my complaint. I’m specifically objecting to “there’s a whole field of study” as a line of defense/attack. That specific phrase makes me flip the bozobit on scholars.
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Well my solution to that is to ignore Ezra Klein 😂 If he can get the NYT to to publish inane opinions, I’m fine with it. If you guys can’t compete in the public meme wars, and his shit crowds out better ideas, I’ll just break out the popcorn and write your entire field off.
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