seriously, that comment section reaffirmed my liking hacker news. and all this analysis of things in an ad hominem way instead of seeking truth, as relative and contextual as it may be, is tedious. Shocking the bourgoisie or the parents is a very boring way to live.
We live in a relatively un-hegemic time, with the intellectual power of orthodoxy at all time lows (not alas, the financial and legal power); trying to find shocking things to say is essentially a solved problem. Trying to discover truth, and motivate ourselves and our peers to do what truthfully needs doing, that has not gotten old, nor made trivially solvable.
We live in a relatively un-hegemic time, with the intellectual power of orthodoxy at all time lows (not alas, the financial and legal power); trying to find shocking things to say is essentially a solved problem. Trying to discover truth, and motivate ourselves and our peers to do what truthfully needs doing, that has not gotten old, nor made trivially solvable.