no earthquake (cultural tutor)

@noearthquake.bsky.social

dull mind & slower passions

While I wasn’t cynical I do think that I could have dared to hope and to share that hope much more than I did. Instead I dwelt more on the absurd depravity of the other side, and fair enough: what I said about that was true. But what’s much more interesting is what we can do. More than I thought!

I like how a bunch of US sociologists published papers in 2017 saying "We should be able to publish technically competent descriptive work" and no one listened, preserving the discipline's strange fetish for puzzles