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If you extol reason, then what matters is the integrity of the thoughts, not the personalities of the thinkers. And if you’re committed to progress, you can’t very well claim to have it all figured out.
Steven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
This is an observation about human rationality as much as it is about the epistemic conditions generated by life in what Jay Bolter has aptly termed the digital plentitude and which I usually call the Database. We are not as narrowly rational in our thinking as many would like to believe. Which is why conventional “solutions” to the problems associ... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Digital Inception
the standard advice in our age of misinformation, ever-increasing polarization, hair-trigger outrage, and democratized media: Ignore it. Don’t feed the trolls!