“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”
I empathize with what you’re saying here because I miss the culture that existed in the world prior to, say, 2010 where some people evaluated claims based on merit rather than sexiness or virality on social media or whatever. The kind of pre-cringe world when ‘cringe’ wasn’t a one word counter argument to something unpleasant.
I think we should focus on keeping islands of merit-based argumentation alive, but recognize that communicating it to a wider audience requires some “seduction of the senses”—as Fred put it.
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I think of this quote from Nietzsche
“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”
I empathize with what you’re saying here because I miss the culture that existed in the world prior to, say, 2010 where some people evaluated claims based on merit rather than sexiness or virality on social media or whatever. The kind of pre-cringe world when ‘cringe’ wasn’t a one word counter argument to something unpleasant.
I think we should focus on keeping islands of merit-based argumentation alive, but recognize that communicating it to a wider audience requires some “seduction of the senses”—as Fred put it.
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