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On the academic death march from deprecating the humanities to deprecating the sciences, we've arrived at the need for the art of human sciences that are holist
by davidthewatson 3y ago
On the academic death march from deprecating the humanities to deprecating the sciences, we've arrived at the need for the art of human sciences that are holistic enough to realize that neither the extremes of poetry nor the extremes of programming can make sense of the need to transcend the absurd when neither a linear algebra of words nor a probabilistic calculus of language can cross the liminal chasm between logic and reason successfully without unintended consequences, much like the century between Taylor and Postman defined the decades that followed them, respectively.