/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11425265]

Have you noticed that silicon valley style leftist intellectuals have completely separated from humanities department style leftists? And that the latter really abhor the former?

The SV style ones are on Twitter or "rationality" communities.

The humanities style ones, characterised best on the internet by /lit/ and /r/badphilosophy, hate the SV types. I'm fairly sure that this is because humanities departments require people to produce and read lots of Marxist drivel and "critiquing" before they are allowed to say commonsense stuff. So, for example, Zizek can't just say "Make the EU bigger because it solves these problems". He has to say lots of dumb Lacanian bs first.

I'm not saying that the SV style is perfect but their approach is clearly adapted for the internet age. The humanities style intellectual is embarrassing. There are people who say that bill gates is stupid.

I think the Stephen Pinker style of using lots of statistics is boring as fuck but I can see that he's taking an honest attempt. In 2018, reading a Marxist armchair approach is laughable. People keep parroting the "deep insights" of Marx. I am always open to hearing them precisely stated by him or others, but these "deep insights" always turn out to be vague and unfalsifiable statements, like fairground psychics.

[Anonymous No.11425271]

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[Anonymous No.11425287]

>>11425265
>Silicon Valley style leftists
These don't exist. Unless you mean neoliberals who pay lip service to whatever moderate progressive ideas have already gained mass popular support.

[Anonymous No.11425289]

Why did you make this thread? I think you got the wrong board.

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[Anonymous No.11425349]

>>11425287
>whatever moderate progressive ideas have already gained mass popular support.
Which is a very leftists perspective. It,s just not as leftist as whatever lunacy im sure you believe

unless you're being ltiearlly autistic about leftist and insisting it means 'socialist'

[Anonymous No.11425385]

>>11425349
>equating the American left to leftism

[Anonymous No.11425393]

Silicon vally optimism was hip in the early 2010's because they presented themselves as le open minded liberal guys who dress and act like us and love diversity, hope and change, yeah!

But around after trump won the libtards finally figured out the ruse and realize SV people are the modern day robber barrons and capitalist scum using PR and philanthropy to mask the fact they have sweat shops in third world countries and are generally a bunch of fucking loser nerds who only care about making money

SV people have more in common with the California ideology and neo reaction