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My thoughts are similar. I don’t think it’s a troll, this type of thing is very common. You don’t have to engage or understand a topic if you can intellectuali
by zvorygin 2y ago
My thoughts are similar. I don’t think it’s a troll, this type of thing is very common.
You don’t have to engage or understand a topic if you can intellectualize it and create “theories” about it.
It’s like when you read blog posts on dating filled with game theory and statistics.
I would have liked to see the author try to spend a year or more trying to earnestly adopt an opposing worldview. Not to try to model another worldview from within their own, but to know what it’s like to be another way.
That would have been more interesting.
- cbogie 2y agoit’s the work of criticism, which often seeks to reframe an entire topic or institution by questioning assumptions girding legitimacy and asserting systemic contradictions. just as valid an approach as immersion into the domain in discussion.
- cbogie 2y agotbh indulgence in both practices is pretty revealing and eye opening for the earnest