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I don’t think I have an ethical duty to parse obscurantist nonsense.


There's nothing obscure about that. You might be out of the habit of consuming challenging material, but it's definitely not a good response to react reflexively with contempt for something that takes a moment of thought to understand. There's already enough vulgar anti-intellectualism in society right now without adding to it.


If that's obscurantist nonsense you aren't going to get far with Heidegger.


Contempt prior to investigation ought not be a point of pride, I think.




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