Re:Rational Magic
by throw4847285 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:27PM
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Can't tell if you're being facetious, but I believe you're about 50% right.
Re:Rational Magic
by claytongulick on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:51PM
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When the post-modernists lose arguments because their ideas lack merit, they attack the very concept of merit in a desperate attempt to remain relevant.
Unfortunately, this is a plan that works when you infect the institutions of learning with it by misaligning incentives.
- an illusion
- an affectation of the bourgeoisie
- an incomplete and imperfect tool
- only effective within a limited and hard-to-bound domain
- a tool of oppression
- capable of being claimed or colonized by any number of objectionable belief systems