Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
The humanities suffer from what I’d call “intellectual entropy”—a steady decline in rigor that drags down the quality of discourse, both in academia and online. The issue gets worse when STEM folks, confident in their structured disciplines, dabble in this mess without realizing they’re entering something close to rocket science-if not more so. By the time someone who’s skimmed Beyond Good and Evil once gets to continental philosophy they will mostly be “not even wrong” about most stuff Post-structuralism, phenomenology, existentialism are dense, challenging frameworks meant to disrupt conventional thinking. They’re probably more rocket science than rocket science. If people are stuck on master vs slave morality, weapons of the strong vs weak which is a far as the internet seem to go is usually because they’re lazy (lazy being a good thing usually, but not about this)
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I’d also add that the high level concepts forged with rigor in the humanities often gets DDoS’d with empty short rhetoric, empty words stripped from their context. The worst is probably how social media (which is totally fine in and of itself, since it is just a symptom, don’t shoot the messenger) but rather the most base part of capitalism (not all bad) but the simplified part in a nutshell continues to cheapen the human experience through overselling and continuing to turn the sacred into something that can be sold
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
In this climate, cross-pollination is throttled, leading to a closed-loop system where ideas are recycled and versioned repeatedly, only to be rebranded and pushed out as if they’re new features, resulting in an ever increasingly stagnant, low-impact development cycle
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