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Something I just made up:
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) October 9, 2023
“Man so powerful yet so weak. Conqueror of stars yet farts and squeaks. Oh man! An ape we know it is true. Darwin has revealed me and you. Yet we go on, forward still. For if not us, then who will?”
See? Basically Shakespeare, plus modern science
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OH MY DARWIN IT EVEN HAS MODERN SOYENCE
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I forgot that shallow StEM frickboys exist and are annoying.
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What's he trying to prove with this bait? This is over my head.
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Remember Sam Bankman-Fried? The guy who ran a multi-billion dollar crypto scam and fricked a hideous girl?
People recently discovered he once tried to prove Shakespeare sucks using population statistics
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STEMcels have such a shallow idea of what a great artist is, like you just rank order everybody with no context and people at the top are “great artists.” His argument makes sense for “tallest” but not something where context and innovation are important and where there's some notion of progression.
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He thinks that Shakespeare( the guy who wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth) is only highly regarded because of tradition and not because his plays are actually good. He believes that if someone paid him, he could write a play as good as Shakespeare. He provided a poetry sample, the reviews are not good.
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I thought his example was so intentionally and obviously bad that he was trying to prove to people who want to kill off the Western Cannon that Shakespeare was good?
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You're very generous. I think he wants people to get pissed off and is exaggerating but basically believes what he is saying.
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Steve literally quoted a bunch of nonsense. I tried hard just to scan it and failed. Let alone understand it. Fake prestige is a perfect description.
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People who don't understand why this is excellent are hopeless and deserve to live in pods. It can be hard to read something that's meant to be spoken so maybe this will help:
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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