Always disconcerting, isn’t it. Life on da internet.
Brian M
There was actually an interesting essay on “history” in Harper’s this month. It touched on CRT, the hysterical conservative response, and the evolution of “leftist” political thought. It ended up expressing some serious reservations about CRT (not from a conservative standpoint, whatever that means), but I thought the article provided some nice context.
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Intro to Christian Theology: Murder, theft, and perjury are bad things.
Intro to Intelligent Design Theory: The complexity assistant in the universe can be explained by intentional design.
Intro to Lamarckian Evolutionary Theory: Populations change over time in heritable ways.
Intro to Transgender Activism: Trans people are people who exist and deserve human rights.
Any questions?
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I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to come up with additional illustrative examples.
Intro to Wokeism: Political correctness, rebranded and on shrooms. :P
Intro to New Age Spirituality: All things in the universe are connected.
Does Pliny know that his microscopic typeface makes his graphics nearly unreadable?
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“her,” I think (I don’t suppose she prefers “their”). They’re perfectly readable if you follow the links and look at the originals.
No Pliny’s a he.
Thanks for setting me straight. So I’ve been labouring under a delusion since I first encountered Pliny the In Between.
Always disconcerting, isn’t it. Life on da internet.
There was actually an interesting essay on “history” in Harper’s this month. It touched on CRT, the hysterical conservative response, and the evolution of “leftist” political thought. It ended up expressing some serious reservations about CRT (not from a conservative standpoint, whatever that means), but I thought the article provided some nice context.
Ah, good. It is online free! https://harpers.org/archive/2021/07/history-as-end-politics-of-the-past-matthew-karp/