When was it fun? Examples? Reform possible?
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Always felt most appealing acads were masters of analogy - a unique ability to downsample their lofty ideas into relatable, perhaps even punchy hooks. Common denominator of Sagan / Cathy O'Neil / Hofstadter / Kahneman / deGrasse Tyson / Hawking / Deutsche ?
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I'm talking specifically about academic leftist humanities people who talk academic pomoese... Derrida/Foucault stuff.
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I think it goes beyond language. The general attitude there is that idle curiosity is bourgeois elitism. The luxury of the privileged.
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And that curiosity always reinforces a power hierarchy. That’s why asking someone where they are from is rude. An anthropologist visiting an Amazonian tribe is suspect.
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the UX of discourse itself
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when i speak about blockchain in hindi i always end up making new connections and achieving new insights -- because i'm forced to use ready-to-hand, common, and basic metaphors. (- former comp. lit. and cultural anthropology student, still lefty, now decentralist.)
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Not sure about 'either hostile or an unquestioning ally' -- there's a tendency toward rhetorical flourishes that, to an analytic philosopher, look like they belong in a manifesto, but calling that hostile is like calling a teenager's graphic tee hostile: misallocation of audience
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