
The Involution of Everything
We Are Not Saved
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The War on the West Is a Chronicle of These Fights for Status
The war on the west is basically a chronicle of these fights for status. The mediaevalists realize that there is no point in writing the 15 thousandth paper on chaucer. Politicians know that the era of the grand bargain is over, and millions of 20 somethings have gone to college only to realize they're the last tear of the pyramid. You might think that it's impossible to have a fight more all encompassing than everything, but students have managed it. They're having fights about epistemology and ontology. Their fighting over what everything even means. It would make sense that acadamia is the tip of the spear. One of their traditional roles has been to
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