Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis you're aestheticizing behaviorist/psychoanalytic distinction in cognition style into strawman meritocratic vs context orientation11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis "understand scars of world"? Put earth on couch much? = psychoanalysis1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis "The world is far subtler and her scars are far older than most geeks really seem to understand." <-- bs patronizing. Not true.3
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis you've clearly been hanging around exactly the wrong kinds of pseudogeeks :)2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis yup, you don't solve such problems, you move them to different attractors