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You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN but really this article is clickbait designed to exploit a growing epistemological crisis in the west. The author

by ixtli 8y ago

You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN but really this article is clickbait designed to exploit a growing epistemological crisis in the west. The author is just describing a group with a history and traditions. While cults are also groups with tradition and sometimes history it’s well disingenuous to say THAT is their defining feature. EDIT: I’d just like to be clear that Academia has definitely got serious issues. But a person who establishes PhD level credentials in Marxist social analysis at the top of the article sure does spew a ton of words about material conditions without ever naming capitalism as the issue and instead blames “academia.” Oh, professors and grad students are terribly overworked but also they are administering a cult?

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SeanLuke 8y ago
> You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and he provided none.
- ixtli 8y ago
  While what you’re saying is clearly factually true, what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal. I think it’s rather obvious he didn’t mean to imply WaPo was actually an organization similar to Om Shinrikyo. In all honesty I think if he’d have written some long form comment we’d all get the same point but have wasted far more time.
  - SeanLuke 8y ago
    > what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal Perhaps common on Youtube comments.
- reality_czech 8y ago
  > I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult. And with that simple statement of fact, "pacifist" has been "intellectually pantsed." LOL.
- oculusthrift 8y ago
  i actually do believe the washington post and the entire media establishment is a cult. it worhships on the altar of neoliberalism and globalism
  - pacifist 8y ago
    Thank you for putting it so clearly. I'm afraid there are too many lost souls who think the 4th Estate still exists. Except for a few truth tellers here and there on the internet, it no longer does.
  - ixtli 8y ago
    (((Globalism)))

by ixtli 8y ago

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SeanLuke 8y ago

> You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and he provided none.

ixtli 8y ago
While what you’re saying is clearly factually true, what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal. I think it’s rather obvious he didn’t mean to imply WaPo was actually an organization similar to Om Shinrikyo. In all honesty I think if he’d have written some long form comment we’d all get the same point but have wasted far more time.
- SeanLuke 8y ago
  > what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal Perhaps common on Youtube comments.
reality_czech 8y ago
> I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult. And with that simple statement of fact, "pacifist" has been "intellectually pantsed." LOL.
oculusthrift 8y ago
i actually do believe the washington post and the entire media establishment is a cult. it worhships on the altar of neoliberalism and globalism
- pacifist 8y ago
  Thank you for putting it so clearly. I'm afraid there are too many lost souls who think the 4th Estate still exists. Except for a few truth tellers here and there on the internet, it no longer does.
- ixtli 8y ago
  (((Globalism)))