You *need* calories, water & sleep. The rest is farting around.
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I knew it you’re a cryptotrumpie
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Machines should continue supplanting all real, hard thinking for us, but intellectualism as conflict resolution (instead of status posturing or physical fighting) is a good ideal and should be revitalized at some point.
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And what am I supposed to do in the meantime?

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Yes...two error streams: ultra conservative "college = liberal" anti-expert regress. And ultra Left "everything is subjective" absurdity.
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We need intellectuals to transcend time/space: “Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is immediately before us.” Hegel
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Liberalism is incompatible with the creation of monastic orders as primary means of producing undistorted social metacognition, and the political, academic and economic institutions tend to get fully corrupted by their incentives if they don't compete with public intellectuals.
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Monastic orders are primarily a way of tucking mystics away so that they DO NOT CAUSE TROUBLE
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Good: Restoration of individual insight and instinct (see Illich's work, esp Disabling Professions and Tools 4 Conviviality). Bad: Insufficiently distinguishing between the tools of intellectual inquiry and the resulting technocratic consequences of institutional intellegentsia
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Without steelman intellectualism we go back to premodern society. So more reliance on social skills, less functional legal and commercial systems (less wealth), less social mobility
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