i have spent a lot of time and dollars reading things and learning about situations and my worldview has developed as a result of that process
i of course have had the experience of reading an article where the author is responding to like 5 different intellectual currents that i am not familiar with and consequently gleaning only like 20% of their message from it as a result. i still had to write papers on those articles
for people who are white and Protestant and who never had any humanities training, i wonder how familiar they are with that situation. i wonder what their response is to it
@Lady I'm not sure I follow that logic. If so, why is any blog popular? Or is the argument that no producers of popular blogs spent time and dollars etc. etc.? (Or just that yours make your blog uniquely unsuited for consumption by people who did so but with a dissimilar set of things and situations?)
@aschmitz the part i am not saying here is that i am pretty stubborn and unapologetic about situating my writings within my own worldview. i think people who find popular success are better at figuring out the worldview of their audience and reframing their points within that context. that is not a practice i engage much in, which makes my writing less popular and more radical in construction (i think there is a place for both)
@aschmitz (for some people, their worldview is already pretty close to the popular worldview so it comes pretty easily to accommodate it. but others put a lot of time and energy in)
@Lady Where does "Protestant" come in here? Is it essay-things from the Pope (like the recent Magificent Humans one), if Catholic?
@Lady But I dunno, I think you can just do that to yourself? I can't imagine it's THAT uncommon. I first read The Cyberpunk Manifesto in late-middle-school or early-high-school? Shoutout to the Old Boys Network. I didn't understand a word of it.
@gaditb oh, i definitely agree that you can give yourself humanities training, but that is not to say everybody does
@gaditb the dominant culture in the United States is (a couple of specific kinds of) Protestant, so they would be the most likely to view their worldview as default. i think Catholicism (and, for the record, things like Mormonism) are different enough that you build some level of awareness that not everybody thinks by you by the time you reach adulthood
if you have not spent a lot of time reading similar things and encountering similar situations, your worldview probably does not look like mine and i understand that this is why my blog will never be popular