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"The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally."
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intellectual-sophistication
internet
irony
nerd
nerdery
nerdiness
nerds
post-ironic
post-modern
post-modernism
reddit
sophistication
wisdom-vs-nerds
wit
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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modernity
post-modern
post-modernism
values
values-in-life
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.
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morality
post-modern
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Haruki Murakami |
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In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice--he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? Sacrifice for what? Demand what sort of order? He doesn't know. If a value has lost its concrete content, what is left of it? A mere empty form; an imperative that goes unheeded and, all the more furious, demands to be heard and obeyed. The less Esch knows what he wants, the more furiously he wants it. Esch: the fanaticism of the era with no God. Because all values have hidden their faces, anything can be considered a value. Justice, order--Esch seeks them now in the trade union struggle, then in religion; today in police power, tomorrow in the mirage of America, where he dreams of emigrating. He could be a terrorist or a repentant terrorist turning in his comrades, or a party militant or a cult member a kamikaze prepared to sacrifice his life. All the passions rampaging through the bloody history of our time are taken up, unmasked, and terrifyingly displayed in Esch's modest adventure.
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broch
certainty
cult
esch
existentialism
fanaticism
imperative
loyalty
modern
novel
order
post-modern
purpose-of-life
sacrifice
sleepwalkers
symbolic
values
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Milan Kundera |