For someone who abhors postmodernism, his writing style is exactly that. You know what post-postmoderists hate more than anything? People who try to show how much smarter they are than everybody else by over-writing. Geesh.
Regardless, I think you're on to a helpful idea, but the major impediment to that future is the reality that most pe…
For someone who abhors postmodernism, his writing style is exactly that. You know what post-postmoderists hate more than anything? People who try to show how much smarter they are than everybody else by over-writing. Geesh.
Regardless, I think you're on to a helpful idea, but the major impediment to that future is the reality that most people are too stupid and/or too lazy to think for themselves in a political context. And of the rest, the influencers usually have a horse in the race. You can't teach people how to think if they don't want to learn or are incapable of putting in the work to find objective truth in an ever murkier and volatile information cloud, and of course half the point is that it's too difficult for us to figure it out on our own, so let's pick a side and trust them unquestioningly.
Taibbi's comments section is one of the few mediums I've encountered where people - many of us - speak honestly. I believe that's a function of Matt's integrity coming through his work.
For someone who abhors postmodernism, his writing style is exactly that. You know what post-postmoderists hate more than anything? People who try to show how much smarter they are than everybody else by over-writing. Geesh.
Regardless, I think you're on to a helpful idea, but the major impediment to that future is the reality that most people are too stupid and/or too lazy to think for themselves in a political context. And of the rest, the influencers usually have a horse in the race. You can't teach people how to think if they don't want to learn or are incapable of putting in the work to find objective truth in an ever murkier and volatile information cloud, and of course half the point is that it's too difficult for us to figure it out on our own, so let's pick a side and trust them unquestioningly.
Taibbi's comments section is one of the few mediums I've encountered where people - many of us - speak honestly. I believe that's a function of Matt's integrity coming through his work.