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The entire piece is an expression of an ideology digesting a perceived threat to itself and producing antibodies in the form of snide, cognitively limiting trop
by motohagiography 6y ago
The entire piece is an expression of an ideology digesting a perceived threat to itself and producing antibodies in the form of snide, cognitively limiting tropes. As an example of watching the beast in action, this is a truly valuable specimen.
Highly recommend reading it as an example of the form.
- bonchicbongenre 6y agoThank you for this phrasing; it puts to words exactly how I feel about the tact used in this article.
- adamsea 6y agoFYI I feel like the language you use is kind of dehumanizing - “the beast in action”, viruses and antibodies when talking about people and what they write, etc. Not saying that was your intent but wanted to share my impression. Don’t know if it’s just me or if others feels similarly.
- motohagiography 6y agoWhen you look in to what that means, dehumanizing seems like a pretty serious accusation. While I can't help with your appeal for sympathy from others, I can offer that this post was about the logic of ideas, abstracted from the people who write them. Doing so treats the people you disagree with as equals, which is about as humanizing as it gets.
- adamsea 6y agoI think it’s a spectrum and you are correct that on the far end of that spectrum is definitely some very bad stuff. Which is not where I think your comment is at all :). But because it’s a spectrum I think and hope my sharing how some of the language in your comment struck me is helpful. Lol the irony is I think that “the logic of ideas, abstracted away from the people that write them”, is in a literal sense, de-humanizing ;). Worth thinking about imho since the ideas we are talking about are about language and people and societies :).