Vast majority of the -ism debates and the history talk today is moronic and grasping at straws at best because we are so ignorant we often don’t even know what they don’t know. Not anyone’s “fault”. The living traditions of thought have died and it’s hard to resurrect them.
they=we
Few understand traditions of thought they grasp at & play w/. Complex thrown around as simple & simple made complex. People read & toss out concepts as readymade weapons. Distinction/focus/zoom levels lost in shuffle. All=funhouse mirrors even for those tryna find firmer ground.
This is all always the case but dead institutions and dead schools of thought remove restraint and create a Babel type situation.

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