When I was a grad. student I was critical by default. But when I started my Phd thesis, I got drastically humbled by how difficult it is research & write. This is why when I see people critical by default of works by others, I try to see what they have done in their own research?
how much work they published on their own? How is their research going? It is so easy to criticize the work of others from the perspective of do nothing in twitter but twitter can also be a place for learning rather than uninformed ranting
I have learned a great deal from many people in twitter...but in order to criticize as i you were Braudel you need to be Braudel...And I am sure Braudel had better things to do (research & writing) rather than merely dismissing the work of others
I was reminded of this situation by a comment in twitter by my friend & often co-author @jasonintrator who mentioned a colleague who was dismissive of his active participation in both academic writing & public sphere but this person was not actively engaged in neither
Projection, jealousy & immaturity are the marks of the scholar who is dismissive of others on twitter or other public venues while doing nothing...it is so easy to see this arrogant conflation between lack of writing/research & Olympic dismissal of others, just check on the CV...
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