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Abner Knight's avatar

A plumber asks if intellectuals conjuring increasing volumes of abstract categories in lieu of productive work is a collapse indicator, or just hilarious?

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https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1593237369976721408?s=20&t=f_hzrSePRzHKkeVcgDB2pw

(1) Professor is from the Latin for “response,” so once personal responsibility is established as no longer a thing professors become bureaucrats with all the benefits thereunto appertaining.

(2) This is an example of the true rival (anti-)religion aka The Poz, which is Goldwaterism wrought absurdly large, and thus catnip for ConInc types. Woke itself is an abortive* (heh) attempt to restore the Civil Religion against it.

* - the cultural equivalent of putting the present-day Ford family in Henry’s original garage and asking them to build a car.

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