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sjellic2's avatar

I would imagine I speak for most of your readership when I say that your work in the Age of Trump has not only been good, it has accomplished the far more difficult feat of being unique, so don't beat yourself up too much.

As for describing the world continuing before us though, in some ways I think your erudition might be a fatal weakness, which kind of goes for all of us. Educated left-of-center people with a nostalgia for a bygone world of letters and ideas (which is to say the donor/staffer/volunteer base of the Democratic Party) have a hard time even having a theory of mind for what the average person's mediated existence through screens is like now.

Will Stancil is annoying, but he's onto something. Beats me where we go from there.

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Laura I Troutman's avatar

No comments yet? I'm usually not first. You probably took far more things into consideration than most thinkers on the left. I do believe that we (intellectuals for lack of a better word) should remain firm in our conviction that social changes are rooted in reality. We should not apologize for looking to Hegel and Marx as upholders of connections throughout society.

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