go further! What impulse made conservatives intellectual in previous eras, and how is that impetus temporally contiguous with the present? bajillion dollar question, if answerable
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I think it's kinda the ascendancy of falsifiable science over the domain of letters, vibes & breeding as a source of authority. You used to be able to go so far just being accultured to a certain kind of linguistic register.
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But now that register—previously great for persuasive narrative making, when humans were the main unit of getting work done—can be successfully challenged by arts beyond itself, outside of its carefully gatekept garden
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