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
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
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 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.
