I have to say that, since joining /lit/ twitter, I've been disappointed by the overemphasis on philosophy and politics (boring) and the underemphasis on literature. And where the latter is employed, it's only as a vehicle for the former two
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Literature is difficult to talk about, and when one does one is left wide-open for derision. The political and philosophical can mask itself behind all kinds of memetic devices to save face. I have a little respect for Logo here, though he's often guilty of being political
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Another problem of the scientific/ philosophical approach is that it creates an atmosphere in which people take everything they read as a sincere belief of the poster, rather than a word experiment aiming to create some kind of effect, regardless of its political truth
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When people develop ongoing spats on twitter I tend to think that they have misunderstood the platform
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